weave4fun

There are two seperate packs of 20 cards here, each working independently and then together. The left hand pack is threaded in the Z direction, the right hand pack is threaded S. If you weave them together they form a chevron. If you weave them seperately they form two different twisted bands. So, here I wove them together for a but, then seperated them and wove each pack seperately for 40 picks. I then allowed them to follow their natural twist and added a little extra in, by turning the band over in their desired direction, cards and all by 360 degrees. Then weave them together again for a bit. And you get this interesting effect. Which is interesting

Hurrah! It works! It's finally starting to look like the patterning I've seen on Linda Hendricksohn's website. The first band is in progress right now. The second couple of pics are from a warp I was previously working on. I tend to make very long warps, then get bored of them and move onto another one that offers greater possibilities. This warp is using 40 cards of 2/32's cotton. I am using the technique that Linda describes for making her calligraphy bands.  Look, it's an ankh and a pointy manny. You can get quite nice smooth diagonals if you have the cards pointing in a certain direction. Which maybe matters more with chunkier yarns like this. Actually, it's not chunky yarn, it's 8 ends of fine viscose run together as one end in each hole. but the effect is the same. And some more, including a cross and what looks like a christian fish but was actually meant to be the letter A. Something I really like about this technique is it gives y...