2 steps forward, one step back
So, finally finished enough weaving to be able to make the planned shoulder bag. 38 inches plus a bit. At the stage of debating whether to keep going and use up the length of warp threads available or just stop now.
Stand back and look for a while. Poke with using the same thread for the weft as the warp (previously used a much lighter weight wool. Discover very little difference. Hmmmm. Think about it and come to the conclusion that I have been tensioning way too tight on the weft threads and produced a bit too much of a warp faced fabric. Which is at least consistently that way and will go with the previous too-short-to-be leg bindings woven done the same way.
But one of the reasons to get into this weaving business was to try and do some of the cool woven in patterns such as herring-bone twills and diamond twills etc and if I am weaving things too tight, then I am not going to be able to get those right.
Bugger.
So, in the mean time I will take off the current fabric, wash and make a bag with it. Then I will sit down with the rigid heddle I have and try and train myself to do an even-weave tabby. Then get back to the warp weighted loom and try playing again. If that goes ok then the next stage will be attempting multiple heddles on that loom.
We shall see what happens then. But now it is really too late on a weeknight.
Stand back and look for a while. Poke with using the same thread for the weft as the warp (previously used a much lighter weight wool. Discover very little difference. Hmmmm. Think about it and come to the conclusion that I have been tensioning way too tight on the weft threads and produced a bit too much of a warp faced fabric. Which is at least consistently that way and will go with the previous too-short-to-be leg bindings woven done the same way.
But one of the reasons to get into this weaving business was to try and do some of the cool woven in patterns such as herring-bone twills and diamond twills etc and if I am weaving things too tight, then I am not going to be able to get those right.
Bugger.
So, in the mean time I will take off the current fabric, wash and make a bag with it. Then I will sit down with the rigid heddle I have and try and train myself to do an even-weave tabby. Then get back to the warp weighted loom and try playing again. If that goes ok then the next stage will be attempting multiple heddles on that loom.
We shall see what happens then. But now it is really too late on a weeknight.