This is the first in a series of video and photo tutorials showing basic to advanced tablet-weaving concepts. These lessons shall each build on the last and hopefully take the viewer from simple diamond patterns up to more complicated double face pattern weaving with finer yarns and eventually onto the heady heights of brocading and other fancy techniques (just as soon as I learn how to do them myself). In this first lesson we'll learn the basic weaving steps involved in weaving a diamond pattern in the backstrap style. This lesson is meant for someone who has purchased a ready-made warp from me. The next lesson shall detail how to design and make this warp oneself. And we begin This is the basic pattern we are making. The woven band is tied to my waist with another strap. I am holding a small stick shuttle in my right hand which contains the weft. In front of me are the cards, each card has 4 warp threads going through it. The gap that you can see is called the
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This is half of warp #1, one repeat of two.
Warp #2 is the same yellow substituted for green and blue for pink.
The colours will be drafted on seperate 6-shaft blocks, allowing me to use the magic of long twills to create fading effects.
My main plan is to use an entirely black weft with warp-faced twills
The interesting thing about this warp is that I have two different counts of yarn, the black is 2/48's NM and the colours are 2/32's Worsted (which converts to 2/36's NM).
That's not the interesting part, the interesting part is that the max sett for both calculates out as almost exactly the same, despite this. This is because the black is placed on 4-end weaves and therefore can be threaded with a lower thread density.
The sett is 48epi, for both counts.
I feel the desire to do a long-winded boring post about yarn-count conversion and setting calculation now. I think it'll help me remember the formulae I need.
In the meantime though, I shall be dressing the loom and then demonstrating the effects gained simply by cycling through different twills with the same warp and weft. Which is so much fun
I'm interested to see what effect the different yarn counts will make in the warp - especially at 48 epi!
Yes, long-winded technical posts are most welcome - though a lot of it is over my head right now, I feel that I can still absorb the vibe into my subconscious :P