#weft & weave

[batbetbitbotbut]

My first time doing clasped weft technique! It's slow but so so striking! It has unsquared my overshot but I'm treating that as a feature this time.

You throw the shuttle in from one side, loop it round your second yarn and throw it back through the same shed to pull the second yarn into the cloth....

.... And then you beat very very slowly and carefully while pulling on each yarn to get the colour change exactly where you want it, and then you carry on and admire/curse your result. It's an absolute bastard to unweave.

For these colours I am making a zigzag between them, but for my next pair of colours (blue and orange) I will do something else.

[freshstitches]

In my previous post, I talked about the stacked stitch technique and said the idea came from warp knit textiles. I promised to tell you more about these knits so here's some info.

The terms warp and weft come from weaving where they are used to describe vertical and horizontal threads respectively (image 2). As hand knitters, we don't generally use these words in relation to our craft, but they correspond to the 2 primary methods of knit fabric production. In hand knitting and on home machines, yarns travel back and forth across each row horizontally (image 3). This is also called weft knitting.

Warp knitting is a process where yarn travels vertically as the fabric is created (image 4). We, as hobbyists, rarely use this term because it is very tedious to do by hand requiring a knitting loom or a lot of patience. Each needle has its own spool of thread and the width of the fabric is essentially determined by the number of bobbins/spools used. Imagine intarsia, but each color is just one stitch wide. Each thread must constantly zigzag from needle to needle in order to create a sheet of fabric and not a series of disconnected crochet chains. This lateral movement is referred to as "shogging." Threads swing to the front of the needle (overlap) and move one unit to the side then swing behind each needle (underlap) and and move to the side one or more spaces.

Warp knits are known for being sturdier with less elasticity and than weft knits. They can be very dense like stranded colorwork or contain extremely large holes. They do not run or ladder, if a yarn breaks, the fabric will slowly unravel and only a small hole will form. 

As in weft knitting, many different textures and colorwork effects can be created using only a few, basic stitches. Tulle, athletic mesh, and flame stitch (image 1) textiles are all manufactured using warp knitting machines.

The cover photo belongs to the @vamuseum and shows a silk shawl from c.1850. I made the illustrations from scratch and I'm very proud of them, please share them so lots of people see them.

[gregorvorbarra]

I’m going to take decent pictures of it later once i’ve finished weaving in ends but I can’t wait any longer to show you all MY WEAVING

LOOK AT IT

[unopenablebox]

donut breakfast + 5 hours of weaving class with a very kind chatty instructor who gave me excellent advice and was fun to hang out with + late lunch of fast food burger with extra fried onions + took a long nap on 🌸, forcing them to be cozy in bed with a book instead of working + now i write more fan fictions and roast some chicken thighs which i will eat for dinner with mashed potatoes

[sparklesmaug]

Oh shit I finished!

[winteringart]

Because I’m pathologically incapable of sticking to one thing, my first weaving on my home floor loom!

IMAGE ID: A photograph of a weaving uin progress on a floor loom. The warp is black cotton, the first section of weaving is plain weave with a brown weft and the second section is a large herringbone with an off white weft. END ID.

[aspiring-thembo]

When I finish this inkle tho I'm gonna figure out how to do a heddle woven piece with tablet woven selvedge. And then you'll all be sorry

[memoriesofthingspast]

🌈🧵🪡📍🕳️

[coffeeworldsasaki]

Trying tablet weaving again!! The first repetition sucks badly but the second looks so much better yay!

[calendae-creations]

I finished my latest batch of weaving last night, and have it up in my shop now! Two hand woven bookmarks, and one keychain, all with light blue and dark blue stripes, and a supplementary weft pattern in silvery thread with zigzags and diamond shapes. $10 each, plus shipping.

[milkweedman]

We are on the cloth beam ! Yes, it took like a week; havent had a ton of time for weaving recently.

Also, finally found a name for my loom :3

[saltpixiefibercraft]

These came out sooooooo squishyyyyyyyy, I use the finished ones in my kitchen Every Day.

[ginneke]

This warp has been on my loom since 2016 (it then went into storage for years). Using it up by playing with techniques - I'm liking how clasped weft works and wondering whether it would result in a basket weave appearance if I were to double the warp... Think I know what the next play session with my sampleit loom might be!

[mikithemaker]

Canner (oc)

[unopenablebox]

unfortunately despite the fact that i have "too much" yarn in the sense that at my limited knitting pace it would take me years if not decades to get through it, i don't have much of it in woven scarf quantities. or rather, i have lots and lots of skeins of (mostly sock) yarn that could provide either warp or weft but not quite enough for both, and don't really go together at all colorwise

[sparklesmaug]

Oh yeah here's a wip of my second weaving project ^-^