#learning to weave

[disgruntled-lifeform]

I have determined that no further tangling of the warp is allowed

I am going to remove the ties as I work my way down the warp, ensuring that shit stays where intended

[blatantescapism]

@disgruntled-lifeform

The point of the threads going down and up in the warp cross is to record their order. There is no deeper meaning to which ones go up vs down. Unless you are doing plain weave, or if you care about mathematical knot theory.

(If you were doing plain weave, there’d be a relevant bonus; but you’re skipping straight ahead to patterns. So ignore whether individual warps go down or up, and just pick whoever is next in the queue.)

At the point where the cross is happening, who can slide freely? That’s who’s next.

Behold, the shitty pixels I made on my phone:

Working manga style from right to left, obviously red is first. Who’s next? Is it yellow? Imagine taking both ends of yellow and dragging the whole yellow thread to the right. It would loop around orange and drag orange along with it. That means that yellow isn’t actually free. Orange comes before yellow. Slide it on over.

Great, we sorted that out. Who’s next? We’ve got green looking pretty similar to how yellow looked last time. Does that mean green can’t move?

Imagine grabbing both ends of green and dragging it to the right. It slides freely, without making anyone else come along with it. That means green is free, and it’s the next in the queue.

The point of the warp cross is that *if you correctly isolate it*, it physically prevents you from sliding the wrong thread.

*Once you know where the cross is* you literally don’t have to guess or remember anything.

You can put it down and walk away and forget everything and come back and know which warp is the next one to thread. It’s the one that slides freely *on the edge of the isolated warp cross*.

Ok, why all the weird purple scare quotes? Let’s look at a hypothetical warp that is more fucked up:

If you try to grab both ends of one of of these warps where they meet the edge of the image frame, you won’t be able to slide any of them freely to the right.

Evil wizards twisted things around and even braided some of the ends together.

But! All hope is not lost, because the warp cross is still intact. It’s right there in the center.

We pushed the gray lease sticks as closely together as they possibly could go. If we imagine grabbing a warp just by the points where it crosses the two lease sticks, we can see that everything is already set up to slide freely in the correct order.

So, all that’s left to do is to untangle the warp ends so that they neatly flow from the warp cross.

Remember, the warps only appear to cross over each other in the “warp cross” if you view it from the side. (Like you did when you were winding it on your warping board.)

The actual definition of the warp cross is the place where the warp crosses from being on top of one lease stick to being on the bottom of the other one.

[crookedtines]

Learning how to weave! After a brief attempt at card weaving, I discovered pick-up weaving and immediately switched over to weaving with a heddle. And since I need to make everything as complicated as possible, I'm working on creating my own patterns as I learn.

Still figuring out how to maintain an even tension when I move my set up around. Ultimately, I'll get a loom and that should solve most of my issues. They're a tad wonky, but I'm pleased with my patterns and excited to come up with more! :))

[troyandabedsnewapartment]

I DON’T KNOW HOW TO LOVE YOU AND I DON’T KNOW HOW TO STOP LOVING YOU.

1. unknown. | 2. ethel cain, strangers | 3. Melissa broder, skeleton glitter | 4. mitski, a pearl | 5. maggie nelson, bluets | 6. molly brodak, molly brodak | 7. rio romeo, nothing’s new | 8. becca de la rosa & maybell martin, mabel: matryoshka | 9. mitski, humpty

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

I've Endured, Now What?

Blue Iris - Mary Oliver / So This Is All I Will Ever Be? - Fatima Aamer Bilal / Vive, Vive - Traci Brimhall

[lucidloving]

Isabel Allende, The House of The Spirits // Anne Carson, Red Doc> // F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous // 肉包不吃肉, The Husky and His White Cat Shizun // Bernhard Schlink, The Reader (trans. Carol Brown Janeway) // Heart Like Yours— Willamette Stone

[jamiesansible]

Weaving continues to amaze me. It feels pretty magical to be able to make fabric that looks like fabric.

This is a secret Christmas present for my flatmate. There is no way to hide my the loom from her in my tiny flat, so I’ve told her it’s for my sister.

[hopelessvalentines]

i am changing every second!!!!!

@lovelysuggestions @geyser2 @imfemalewarrior

[a-study-in-bullshit]

[thesmokinpossum]

If My Body Could Speak, Blythe Baird | The Godfather, Mario Puzo | My Father's House, Sylvia Fraser | To The Daughter Who Secretly Longs For Her Mother’s Affection, Lynne Shako | Storms from Jupiter, Wanda Deglane | DO NOT REPLY, @filmnoirsbian

[disgruntled-lifeform]

I think I tied my warp incorrectly some how because it is like Eldrich spaghetti and I might just need to redo it all and I hate myself ok bye

[33max]

“Only now are we starting to realize it: my son is F1 world champion,” she said. “I screamed and cried.”

“I can’t count all the candles I lit this week,” Sophie revealed.

“The angels helped us,” the overjoyed mother believed.

a mothers love is never done

(x / photo by vladimir rys / max verstappen: whatever it takes / sophiekumpen on instagram / x / x / to my son by alicia daly)

[uncanny-tranny]

Another bonus to learning a fiber art is being able to speak to others in a Lovecraftian language that nobody else understands...

...and also being able to read things like THIS:

[opheliasam]

sam winchester + being loved captivity

Reassurance to Sierra in High School—Sierra Demulder / For Your Own Good—Lean Horlick / A Self-Portrait in Letters—Anne Sexton / Ask Polly—Heather Havrilesky

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

He Made Me In His Image

The Woman Destroyed - Simone de Beauvoir / Seventeen Going Under - Sam Fender / The Cruel Prince - Holly Black / Swan - Nicole Dollanganger / Elektra - Sophokles tr. Anne Carson / Sun Bleached Flies - Ethel Cain

[deadleafpard]

'i'm so tired of having self respect, let's do something i'll regret"