#handweaving

[bookshelfdreams]

yk when you see someone share a finished handmade item that they clearly spent a lot of time and money on and it's just. The absolute tackiest thing you have seen in your life. And then you ask yourself why someone would waste all those resources on such an eyesore.

(no, of course you can't relate to that because you're a much nicer person than me)

In any case.

BEHOLD!

A wool coat!

The top fabric is handwoven and handspun, the whole thing is sewn by hand, too.

Leftovers. Barely anything, all things considered, which is very satisfying.

This thing took me well over 3 years to make, on and off. And now I'm done.

Thank you for your attention.

[saltpixiefibercraft]

Getting another batch of the rainbow fabric worked on as of 1/5/24, going to use this batch to make a bunch more of the little zipper bags and some new *experiments* I'm hoping turn out cool!

Have some loom ASMR!

If you have weaving questions, leave them on this post and I'll do a video at the loom answering the best I can!

[no-pants-dan]

Took a weaving class last weekend and learned about shadow weave! It's a color-and-weave technique that creates patterns without using long floats. This is four colors: the warp is what you see in the fringe (lemongrass and like cobalt blue) and the weft is a burnt red and dark seaweed teal.

The shine from the tencel fiber and the shadow weave structure have an iridescent effect that I absolutely love. And the fabric feels lustrous but sturdy because it's mostly plain weave! I will say I did not love working with tencel, but I'm curious about other very shiny fibers now.

Here is my color sampling and some progress photos:

Now I have this 76in scarf made of a fiber that won't keep me warm. I'll absolutely never wear something like this. I'm thinking about cutting it and sewing it into drawstring bags. Maybe add some beaded fringe? Idk, I'll take other people's ideas.

[ivorivet]

Yesterday I got the big wool blankets warped up on the loom at the studio. It looks like Lisa Frank barf and I love it. It took almost the whole weekend to warp and I only got about 20 minutes of actual weaving in before I had to leave. I wanna go back!!

[kohanakonohana]

先日から久しぶりにリネンを紡いでおりました。

何でも着物用に近い細い糸にしてしまうので…２本をより合わせて緯糸に。

I had spun linen slivers in a long time. I make everything into a thin yarn, almost like that for kimonos… so I joined two strands together to make a weft.

綿のスラブ糸と組み合わせて、新しいショールができました！

Combined with cotton slub yarn, I have just woven a new shawl!

[koniknits]

🌊🌴

[dangerphd]

tablet weaving is friggin magic 🪄🧞‍♀️🕴️

prompted by the note, edited to add:

[sewambitious]

Almost forgot to show you guys before I gave it to the new parents 😊

[dead-rabbit-comics]

i may have severely underestimated the focus this 'little' experiment requires

i barely know how to weave!! stick to something simple!!! maybe i'll just wind some yarn, reconnect the two broken warp threads and call it a day... but i really want to make some more progress before the work week starts again........

[dr-dendritic-trees]

So I've been lurking on AO3 and most of the modern AUs of Iliad characters I've seen have made Helen a model or something; which to be fair has a clear basis in the myth...

... but Helen is a very skilled weaver, so I put it to you that in a Modern AU she should be some sort of terrifying engineer, or possibly work for NASA, its only right.

[sirquacklesdefoof]

When you’re weaving something white and pink and one of the 80+ year old ladies in your weaving circle goes “That’s so cute! Have you considered adding a nice blue?”

[bookshelfdreams]

hey babes remember this project

(yeah neither do I it's been months and months) (who wants to make a wool coat in the height of summer anyway)

But! The last weeks have been rainy and too cool for July/August, and reminded me that autumn is right around the corner and Christmas will be here sooner than I think.

I actually finished weaving sometime in spring, I don't remember when exactly; didn't make an occasion out of it. I made 3 lengths of fabric total

... which, as it turns out is Quite A Bit! Look at that stack :) You have no idea how satisfying it was to hold all that in my arms.

Return of the King for scale

Each of these is about 55cm wide, and 230cm long which is insane, considering that I started out with a 4.5m warp. Granted, about 40-50cm of that are wasted on the loom and another 10% or so loss has to be calculated in (because of course the warp doesn't stay straight, it goes around the weft which means it becomes shorter) AND the threads being wool they have a lot of stretch to them. But still, that's a lot of shrinking, for a fabric that's still loose enough to fray. No wonder clothing was valuable as fuck, it's not even the amount of work that goes into it, but the portion of that work that's essentially wasted. And if I had wanted to make a tight fabric, an actual broadcloth, I would have had to calculate in a lot more shrinking.

I finished this in the washing machine (I think 30°c with no spin cycle and no detergent? But I'm not sure about thaz, I forgot 59nwrite it down I think). Then I gave each piece a lanolin bath. I may have overdone it a little? Some of the wool feels a tiny bit - well not exactly greasy but soapy. Whatever. It does improve the wool's hydrophobic properties and makes it feel a little softer.

And all the pieces fit!

This was very satisfying

I did not, however, have enough of the lilac linen that I originally wanted to use for lining. So I bought another fabric, the only one I could find that I liked: A very, very lightweight brown linen.

The listing: This is very light and transparent! Me, opening the package:..... oh wow, I didn't know it would be this light and transparent

I hope it will work. There's only one way to find out.

That's all I have for now! I have cut out the front and back pieces, and now it's just sewing, sewing, sewing.

[saltpixiefibercraft]

Got a request for this loom footage with no overlay audio, so here you go!!

Clackity-clacks of the loom and my awkward attempts to throw the shuttle with my phone stand arm directly in my face lol.

[no-pants-dan]

Some footage I recorded while I was working on my waffle towels (Sound on)

[ivorivet]

I started the towels today!

And holy moly I know my weaving isn't perfect but I am so excited about how much my selvedges have improved after only a short bit of mucking around. I got some really good advice on a fiber arts discord server and I am so!! excited!!! 😭

[kohanakonohana]

二枚目のショール織り上がり。

暑くて頭が働かないので、好きなことだけしてたら速いｗ

今回は藍の斑染めから、先日の十薬による枯草色の斑染めにスイッチ。

I've just finished weaving the second shawl because It's so hot and i do only my favorite things this weekend(we have an extra holiday in Japan) so it is fast to finish...this one has two colours the uneven indigo and uneven dry grass colour dyed with fish mints a month before!