This way I would have the least waste of the silk yarn. When I started to weave with different yarns I found that I had made threading mistakes in the heddles. I made some temporary heddles from cotton yarn:
The weaving with different yarns was to look what yarns would work as weft yarn but also which colour would be good to use.
In the end I have chosen as weft this yarn. And for weaving I have opted for this one.The network drafting means a lot of different sequences of the treadles are used so I have made myself a small chart to keep up with what I'm doing.
There are 8 shafts and 8 treadles for the network pattern. My loom has 10 treadles. So I named lifting 1 to 8 to treadles 2 to 9 as 1 and 10 were reserved for tabby. I use a clothes peg for keeping up with the sequence I'm weaving.
So thisnow looks like this
I still find that the yarn has a lot of fluff but it seems to be ok with the weaving so far. I'm not sure if this is normal for silk yarn.
Finally, here a photo of the first bit of weaving:
Hello Margreet, I am watching with interest to see how this goes because I have bought some silk yarn with the intention of dyeing it and weaving a scarf. It's looking pretty!
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ReplyDeleteI've just had to go back a while as there was an extra shaft lifting on one treadle :-(
That is a problem with this Leclerc loom, I forgot to tie the unused ties away so that they would not catch on the treadle.
The fabric looks beautiful! I have never woven with silk before. The pattern and treadling sequence looks enormously complicated, but you have found a very smart way of handling it.
ReplyDeleteCharlotte,
ReplyDeleteI'm enjoying weaving with the silk, this is 20/2 silk yarn.
I suppose network drafting is more what you might do on a dobby loom. But it works fine for me this way.
This is going to be lovely. Soft and feminine. I also like the fabric in your header.
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