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Another Sulawesi – is it time for a change?

April 22, 2024 /

I made another belt in Sulawesi style, but I need to experiment with some other weaving styles a bit. It is not the same as before, I don’t have a lot of new ideas for new designs, even it I honestly haven’t woven all I have drawn. I have 100s of designs in various folders, but I lost the motivation to weave the same style over and over. I tried playing with some brocading, but it was not a great success. I think it would work better with a 2 hole weave.

So here is the belt, and I will be back (soon I hope) with a belt using another weaving technique. I have some ideas, but let’s see how it works out.

Some keltic knots and dragons.

January 23, 2024 /

I have to admit that the weaving with 6-hole cards required a lot of concentration, so after weaving a bit, I decided to change to regular 4 hole cards, cutting out 2 threads. The results is below. The 4 hole is nothing spectacular, but more relaxing to weave. I took the opportunity to weave some designs I drew 3-4 years ago but didn’t really test, mainly various dragons and keltic knots.

Midnight Blue weaving

November 1, 2023 /

The silver-blue belt in silk and wool is finished. I really love the feel and look of it. The wool is matte and the silk shiny, which means that the two quite similar shades of dark blue appear quite different and contrasting. Here are some pictures:

Lady Midnight – Silk and wool

October 23, 2023 /

I really enjoy working on this belt in wool and silk. The silver and blue are pure silk and the dark blue (accompanying thread) is 100% wool. I was worried that they would stretch differently, but it works out great. So a sneak preview!

More to come later…

2 different designs using one warp.

September 25, 2023 /

I wanted to weave with some lovely pinkish-mauve yarns for a while, so I set up a regular 16 cards weave with Oseberg edging using these these colours (even though I don’t really use much pink, but the colours spoke to me). But when I started weaving, I feel that it turned out a bit too pink and I hesitated to change it by cutting out one or 2 threads per card. In the end I flipped the motif colors (mauve) and the background colour (green) and continued to weave approximately 2 m. I also worked on some variations of the leaf theme for 16 cards, which I will upload on the design page.

Then I attached the weft and cut out the accompanying colours to do some pebble weave with 2 missing holes, and it turned out much nicer than my initial weave. I regret not doing it sooner, since I only had enough warp to weave around 60cm.

The 1st belt looks like this:

The second, shorter pebble weave looks like this:

It’s amazing how the mauve colour looks so different (nicer) when the lighter thread is gone.

The switch…

The autumn belt is finally off the loom

June 13, 2023 /

It took some time to complete, but now it is done. I like it, but not my favourite. Maybe it is a bit to complicated with all the colour changes going on. It is nearly hypnotising when you look at it.

Well, here it is:

The Beginning….and the end!

Start of the “Autumn belt”.

May 12, 2023 /

Since I been working on my “Summer” and “Spring” belts, I felt the urge to do an Autumn belt, and I have at least started.

I used 11 different shades of yellow, orange, brown and green. Sneak preview below…

The Fire and water belt.

March 22, 2023 /

The belt I talked about in my last blog post is finally finished. I am happy with how the gradient turned out and I had quite some comments on the “fire” aspect. I like how the fire is flanked by “water” from the blue border.

I have also been drawing quite a few alternative designs lately. I could not weave them all, but at least some of them. I will add the weaving diagrams asap here on my page for 24 card designs.

Now to the pictures:

Using colour gradients

March 6, 2023 /

I have been playing with colour gradients more and more in my weaving projects and I wanted to add a post on the material I use to achieve them.

I recently posted on a belt I am currently weaving, where I use 6 shades of yellow/orange. I don’t like making any publicity, but I still want to mention that I get them from Weavers bazaar in the UK.

Here are the threads and the belt, side by side. I used red and brown as motif/design colour to add contrast. Threading below.

Threading

The belt below is also using a blue colour gradient. The photo of the treads are in a different light (or overexposed), but it is the ones I used to get this effect.

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