A blog about tablet weaving and how to design your own belts.
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:
I made this Viking style bag. It the outside is blue wool and the inside red/purple linen. I used an old belt I have woven for the strap and a piece for decoration. I used some wood from my garden for the bag handles. I like how it turned out.
And then I have experimented with a wider than usual weaving. However it did not turn out well. The first part is below.
It makes me think of when I was a kid and old 3D movies showed on TV. I didn’t have the red and green glasses, so the films looked a bit like the weave below…
I have come back from the Medieval week in Visby, Gotland, Sweden. It was great as always. I never take many photos, as it goes against the historic feeling. But here I still have a few.
I brought some belts since some of my friends wanted to buy some. I ended up selling most of them without doing much except bringing them with me. It inspired me to add a new page to my blog “For sale“, since I have far too many belts and it made me quite happy to see them around the waist of my friends.
I also learned a new craft, to make baskets from grass.
I also convinced my sister to join me for the first time in 20 years.
I like to use my “belts” for other things (except belts), so I made again a bag for a viking friend. I am happy with the bag, except the bag handels which I bought (and dont like all that much). I am thinking about how to make my own handels in the future.
The woven part is done with 24 motif cards + 6 border cards in wool. In the end I did 3 variations for the decorative part, but I chose the birds. Below are the other 2 variants.
A few more photos:
I like the viking style bags with wooden handles, and it is a good place to use some of my woven straps/belts. So I made a belt with the leftovers from my coat and then I did a Sulawesi style strap in thin wool in colors to match (green, white and brown). So here it is…
The strap is using 16 motif cards and 2+2 border cards. Most motifs are in my design page. If not, just drop me a note and I will upload it.
The woven part, with quite a lot of leaf variations:
It took me some time to finish and the main reason is that I decided to sew myself a rain jacket in the middle of weaving it. The results is here.
I really love pebble weave and I really hate pebble weave (or 2-hole weaving). I love the simplicity of the 2 colors and the little contrasting dots. But anyone who has tried it knows the problem with the cards going all over the place. My solution is to support them on a piece a card board, but it is not perfect. This project is a bit shorter than usuall, to make a strap for my viking bag.
Here is the weaving:
And here is the bag. I am quite happy with the result.
By the way, all of my designs can be used to do pebble weave. The orange and brown are threaded in opposite holes (A and C or B and D according to the threading instructions). This pattern is using 16 motiv cards and 4 border cards.
To clarify on the threading, this is how I threaded this weave:
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