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 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.
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.
I started this weave last week and I do like the colors. A sneak preview below…
I will add more photos as I progress.
Today I finished off 2 things:
1) a small backpack made from scrap fabric and an old tablet woven belt (one of my first). I quite like it!!
2) then I tried to save my 54 cards weaving project by cutting out the brown tread (making it a 3 hole weave). But it still looks strange and not very nice. So after this piece I decided to cut it down and discard the rest of the weave. Well here it is:
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 finally finished this piece. I was happy to try a lot of new designs, but I am not happy with the result. It is too crowded, I have a hard time to leave enough space between designs. I will try to do better next time. Anyway, some pictures below.
Leaves and Flowers
Animals
Various
I have been drawing on some variations of creatures in squares for 24 cards (instead of 32). I am now test weaving, and I quite like how it turns out. It is not finished, but a sneak preview:
Turning schemas will be added to the designs section soon.
I also did some sewing using again my coat pattern from 1975, which I really love.
Have a great Christmas and see you again next year!
I had an idea for this belt, but I missed something and it turned out different than I expected. But in the end I think I like the result more than if I had succeeded. If you put it in the sun, it really glows.
I have developed several variations on diagonal patterns, both for 12 and 16 motif cards. These are in 16 motif cards. I will upload some on the design page soon.
I met up with some friends this weekend to do some weaving. It was nice, but I realised that I need to add more instructions to my page. I thought I had shared how to thread the loom for Sulawesi, but we encountered several problems. The threading seemed correct, but in some cases the motif was on the back side, and sometimes the starting position had to be changed for it to work.
Here are some pictures.
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