Saga wool craft & Saga bead craft
A blog about tablet weaving, jewellery making and some other crafts.
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After 2 tests with hexagonal cards in Sulawesi style, I can conclude that it works, but it’s a pain to weave. Is it worth it to get that extra colour? I will show you and let you decide wether to…
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Midnight Blue weaving
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…
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Lady Midnight – Silk and wool
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.…
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2 different designs using one warp.
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…
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2, 3 or 4 threads – What difference does it make?
This post is to (hopefully) clarify on how to play with missing threads, background and accompanying colours. All my motifs can be woven with these 4 variants of threading (with different results). Please give some feedback if it is not…
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I finally finished the silk belt.
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…
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Designs – 32 motiv cards
Creatures in squares
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Silk weaving again
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…
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The autumn belt is finally off the loom
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…
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Start of the “Autumn belt”.
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…
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