Handspun from Little Wool Company (Anna Gratton) corriedale sliver. One sliver multi shades and the other plain bordeaux.
Greek key, my first attempt at double weave pick up, which I really enjoyed. But shock horror, can you see where the dye ran into the white. Is there any way to remove the run of dye? The rust thread is a guide to rap it straight around a canvas block. I will have another go at this as I like the clean lines.
The blotchy variegated fabric using space dyed warps, one dark and the other an echo of it. Woven echo weave, 28 epi, 560 threads, wove almost 5 metres giving me approximately 4.5 metres of cloth. I'll have to do some fancy cutting out to obscure the band that stands out as being different (shame it wasn't on the outside edge). The cotton tags are my half metre marks as I weave which I find less muddly than using string or a tape measure which I always seem to get tangled in and pull on. I cut the tags before I start weaving and as they're used I know how many metres are woven and how many to go. The tags also give me an idea of take up and shrinkage after fulling, in this case shrinkage was 4 cm per 50 cm, and a pause to stretch my back.
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