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Weft Colour Matters
4 December 2020 04:35 pmMy very belated attempts at tablet weaving (because I suddenly had a need to generate a cord of user-definable width).
It was an almost unmitigated failure... the mitigation coming when I took down the end of the strip that was jammed in the crack of the door, and discovered that my attempts at creating varied patterns had at least been bearing some fruit, but all on the back of the work -- as illustrated!
Admittedly I was working with very inadequate equipment (clothes pegs and a big knitting safety-pin fastened to the back of my jumper to hold the other end), only four cards instead of the recommended twelve, and had handicapped myself by starting with too much wool, so that my arms weren't long enough to reach the far end of the warp. But it's rather disappointing that the only really presentable rows were the stripes right at the start, and it just got messier and messier from there on, even when I tried simply going back to the start sequence (two turns left, two turns right).
I used a different colour for the weft, on the grounds that it would make it easier to keep track of what I was doing. It definitely does make a difference what colour you use!
It was an almost unmitigated failure... the mitigation coming when I took down the end of the strip that was jammed in the crack of the door, and discovered that my attempts at creating varied patterns had at least been bearing some fruit, but all on the back of the work -- as illustrated!
Admittedly I was working with very inadequate equipment (clothes pegs and a big knitting safety-pin fastened to the back of my jumper to hold the other end), only four cards instead of the recommended twelve, and had handicapped myself by starting with too much wool, so that my arms weren't long enough to reach the far end of the warp. But it's rather disappointing that the only really presentable rows were the stripes right at the start, and it just got messier and messier from there on, even when I tried simply going back to the start sequence (two turns left, two turns right).
I used a different colour for the weft, on the grounds that it would make it easier to keep track of what I was doing. It definitely does make a difference what colour you use!
