A blog about tablet weaving and how to design your own belts.
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.
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 photos don’t do it justice, but the yellow really looks like gold. It is the longest weave I have done so far, over 3m. It was a custom piece for a good friend. Unfortunately we could not meet in person, since I have been down with Covid/flu/nasty cold for the last weeks.
Anyway some photos below (I added some designs to the design page for 24 cards.
I got a request for the dragon in the bottom right of the combined picture on top. I have 2 versions (as with many of my designs), one horizontal (as shown here) and one vertical. I added both below and to my 24 card designs page. Enjoy!
I like to weave in silk, but I also feel limited with the colours I have (since it does cost a bit more). Well, I am slowly advancing on this one. A lot of see creatures and some horses.
It looks better in real life, since the yellow looks really golden, but on the photo it is somehow “flat”. I will add some of the new designs to the design page (and below).
After this one, I plan to take a summer brake. C U in September.
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…
Here is a sneak preview of the forest green belt that I am working on now. I took the opportunity to try some new variations of my leaf designs.
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 started this weave last week and I do like the colors. A sneak preview below…
I will add more photos as I progress.
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
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