Predator at Complexity Exhibit in Rhode Island

Predator
19" H x 14" W
Cotton, hand-dyed wool.
Twill and plain weave, forming supplementary warp worked in double-layered sprang technique.

If you're going to Convergence, be sure not to miss this exhibit at nearby Brown University.  See my piece "Predator" and 98 other exquisite woven works.

Complexity
The 2014 Exhibition
An International Juried Exhibition
by Complex Weavers

July 14 - August 14, 2014
Cohen Gallery, Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island

Updraft, Downdraft at Convergence 2014

Updraft, Downdraft
3 yards 24" long x 24.5" wide
Cotton, hand-painted warp
Doubleweave, half-layer left unwoven and worked in sprang technique

This and other fabulous yardage featured in:

Ebb & Flow: Yardage

HGA’s Convergence 2014 Providence Juried Yardage Exhibit
Exhibit: July 16–19, 2014
Rhode Island Convention Center
Providence Rhode Island

Eccentricity at Convergence 2014

Eccentricity
37" H x 28" W
Cotton, wool, rayons, silk and blends.
Doubleweave, varying ends-per-inch, some layers of warp left unwoven and worked in sprang technique.

This piece and other fiber arts featured in Providence this month in:

A Lively Experiment: All Media Exhibit
HGA’s Convergence 2014 Providence international juried exhibit

Exhibit: July 16–19, 2014
Rhode Island Convention Center
Providence, Rhode Island

Beam once, thread many

Here's something I'd heard of, but had never tried before.  If you have multiple projects which use the same number of warp ends, but different threadings, you can re-thread between projects, and save the beaming step on the subsequent projects.  I got to the end of this project...

...opened one tabby shed...

...then placed a lease stick in this shed behind the castle.

Next, open the other tabby shed and place a second lease stick.

Tie or secure the lease sticks however you normally do for threading.

Then just cut off the first project...

...and unthread it by pulling the warp out to the back, and you're all ready to thread the next one!

July TotM - 4th of July Weaving

Happy Independence Day!

On the loom: 40/2 linen warp at 30 epi in rosepath threading, 20/1 linen ground weft, 5/2 cotton pattern weft.

July TotM - The Draft

July's Towel of the Month is on the same threading as April's towel, a rosepath threading, but it uses a different tie-up.  It makes a design meant to look like tiny "stars and stripes" reminiscent of the US flag, just in time for our Independence Day.

The warp is again bleached 40/2 linen, 569 ends total.  The "tabby" weft is the bleached 20/1 linen.  The pattern weft called for is the "5-strand floss" which I don't find available, so you can substitute 5/2 cotton in red and blue.

To weave this one, weave 8" plain weave with the tabby linen, then follow the draft to weave the pattern, throwing the red and blue pattern yarns where indicated, and the tabby weft in between as shown.  On one end of the towel, repeat the "stars and stripes" three times total, weaving 26 picks of tabby between each one.  On the other end of the towel, just make one repeat, reversing (do the stars first, then the stripes).

Happy summer weaving!

Cool Linen Lace in the Light - June TotM Completed

June's Towel of the Month is in Lace Bronson (aka Atwater-Bronson lace).  In this photo it is backlit against an open window in the breeze.  I think it would make some pretty curtains, don't you?

And here's the finished hemmed towel, ready to go to another test kitchen.










How's your summer weaving going?  Do you have a project you want to get done in the long summer days?