Eeeek! As I look at this on the computer, I realize the sides are drawing in way more than I thought. One of the many problems I am encountering with this open of a set. Although I should say that this is not an unusual set for a tapestry, I just usually choose to work with 7 or 8 warps per inch, instead of 3 like this tapestry. The main difference is the thickness of the weft you can weave with and still cover all the warps effectively and apparently the length of time spent weaving. It is going very fast and would go faster except I ripped the sun and some rocks out but I am not really using any thicker of a weft than normal. —Just looked at the post and realized that I am using the same oranges and pinks I used in the sunset gradation piece set as the background. Yes they are from the same dye lot and they were originally for my BFA review show, but as always I dye extra….so much extra 8 years later I still have way more.
Nov 14
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This weaving is going so fast, especially because I took two weeks off to go to New Orleans and work on Xmas projects. I don’t know if I like the looser set, it seems like the weaving might be a little flimsy. I am pretty sure this will be a sunset tapestry with Pacific Northwest […]
Every time I walk by one of my looms empty I feel antsy like I should be doing something. This past month or so I thought we were moving soon so I stopped weaving temporarily. Well it is apparently going to take a while for my husband and I to find and agree on a place, so I had to start again. I warped my tapestry loom differently this time. Instead of using large dowels as warp beams and sumac stitches to begin my warp spacing, I decided re-do the nails I had taken out when I first retrieved the loom from the sidewalk. This means that I will have way less ends per inch and it will accept larger wefts. In the end this means less detail but it should weave way faster with thicker wefts.
I wove this a while back (2 years maybe more) but when I washed it all the colors ran:( I ran across this picture yesterday while trying to find pictures of another weaving. It reminds me about two important lessons 1. test everything for wash fast colors 2. always take a before picture. Too bad I only remembered one of those with this weaving. I would show what it looks like now but I can’t find it.
These are the finished flags for the “Flags and Fibers” opening tonight ( 9-3-11) They are 6″ x 8″ and will be donated with the flag collection to somewhere in the area, if you have suggestions contact Jorie at the Ink People. The opening will be from 6 – 9 tonight during Arts Alive! in Eureka, California at the Adorni Center. The show ends on Sept 27 if you can’t make it tonight.
I made the yarn for these out of plastic wrap. I cut the tubes of plastic into strips then used my weft winder and rolled it on to some bobbins and wove from there. Extreme tension is needed to keep the warps from going crooked through out the piece.
This is one of the flags that will be in the “Flags and Fibers” show at the Adorni center in Eureka, California. There will be a great collaborative piece in the show where area artists
have made flags to donate. The opening night is during Arts Alive! Eureka September 3rd 6-9 pm, but the show will be up through September. I think. I forgot to ask when I will get things back. Also in the show will be Stone Lagoon and Lost Shore. I forgot how much I love weaving with plastic.
This summer I feel like I have been at a festival or fair every weekend. If you’ve seen me, I am weaving on an old frame loom made from canvas stretchers. It probably seems like I haven’t gotten much done, that is because I talk too much and rip out large parts after I get home. I am still planning on it looking like a waterfall east of Eugene in Oregon.
Aug 2
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A few “behind the scenes” pics from “Lost Shore.” One is the hairy back of the weaving and the other pic is from while I was washing it.
This is the long fire warp from the previous post. When I was dressing the loom with the warp I cut the warp so that every other string was moved up an inch or so. Hopefully this will create a cloth that looks like it has depth to the fire. The weft was painted to match the dark stripes which were dyed separately from the fire warp ( it was right next to the long warp scrunched up in plastic.) The weave structure is 2/2 twill, mirrored in the center.
Jul 28
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Shows presoaked warps and wefts laid out in the garage before and after dying. The long one is the primary design for the warps I dyed. Then the next day I tried a short cut and to not tie things back up enough so I spent all afternoon detangling. Today they are out in the […]
