We are so lucky to have Rebecca Logan back with another episode on 'Diversified Plain Weave, Pushing It Further'.
This lesson has 4 and 8-shaft towel projects using 16/2 and 8/4 cotton and they are absolutely wonderful 🙂
We'd love to see your completed projects.
Drop a comment or question below!
Season 10, Episode 3 - DPW Pushing It Further!
Season 10 - Thick & Thin
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Great session!
I am however a bit confused how to create the gamp with the squares. Could that be explained a little more?
Thank you! Gwen
Thanks, Gwen!
For the gamps (if you mean the green and blue ones) I applied a selection of different threadings, chose a single tie-up for each woven gamp, and treadled tromp-as-writ, so the treadling was the same as the threading. Each threading section was repeated two to four times, depending upon width. Were I to weave the gamps again, this time I would place contrasting coloured borders and dividers between the different threadings and treadlings.
You can design your own gamp and experiment! They are so much fun to weave.
seniuk
Gwendolyn Penner
Good morning - it’s not “spring” here on the east coast yet, so the gardening is slow but the weaving means another project season 10! DPW EPISODE 3 ON 4 SHAFTS.
Is there a heddle count for this project, have discovered that I will be short heddles (on 1 &2 of course) but have to figure out mid-warping which shafts to steal some heddles from….
Any help would be appreciated.
Happy weaving everybody, and happy spring when it gets here.
Elaine
Gwendolyn Penner is correct with her heddle count. We will make an update to add the heddle count to the pdfs, I should have picked up that it was missing, I'm so sorry!
It isn't spring here in Alberta, either, so the weaving continues. Happy to have you join me!
Thanks so much to both of you, it’s so helpful to have another way to double/triple check that the loom is warped correctly. BTW, it seems like a very straightforward pattern to load.
Appreciate your input.
Happy weaving!
Elaine
Getting ready warp DPW on my Jack loom. I noticed when sampling that when pressing on treadle 2 the other tabby, harness 2 always raises and I need to hold it down to throw the shuttle. Any ideas on how to fix this? My notes from the cotton cloud DPW said same thing. Thanks.
Hi Catherine, I wrote a long reply to you but forgot to hit the "Reply" button. It should be down below. Thanks!
Hi Catherine,
If you've checked to make sure you have no crossed threads between the reed and the heddles, then it may just be a quirk of your loom. Try easing the tension down a bit, that might help.
If easing up on the tension doesn't help, I have a rather extreme alternative suggestion. You could alter the tie-ups to instead of always tying up treadle 2 with the pattern treadles on 3-10, try alternating 1 & 2. So treadle 3 would tie up 2 and the pattern treadles, 4 would tie up 1 (not 2) and the pattern treadles, 5 would tie up 2 and the pattern treadles, 6 would tie up 1 and the pattern treadles, 7 would tie up 2 and the pattern treadles, 8 would tie up 1 and the pattern treadles, 9 would tie up just shaft 2, and 10 would tie up 1 and all of the pattern treadles. You would use the same pattern of tying up treadles 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 and 9 as shown in each tie-up box, just treadles 4, 6, 8, and 10 would have shaft 1 attached instead of shaft 2.
Yes, the interlacements would change. But because the tie-down threads are so thin, that wouldn't change the essential nature of the cloth. You'd still have no long floats (I checked with my weaving software). And it might avoid the lifting issue with shaft 2.
Your background colours would alternate, so you won't get as distinct different background colours as the towels woven as shown in the pdfs, but we're doing anything we can to avoid a shaft lifting issue, so drastic measures are being taken. If you try this, let me know how it goes!