Weaving
Last month I attended a weaving workshop covering double weave, deflected double weave and differential shrinkage techniques. It was held as the part of the Auckland Creative Fibre Spring Education Festival and led by Agnes Hauptli. There were 10 of us and prior to the workshop we were supplied with pre-wound warps to dress our looms, a different one for each student. The workshop was run as a round-robin so that at the end of the workshop we all had a variety of samples to take home, as well as the remainder of the warp on our own looms to weave off. The samples were all wet finished and here are the results.
– 8/2 cotton
– 20/2 cotton & 110/2 TEX merino
& Tencel 8/2 Ne
– Bamboo 10/2Ne & 110/2 TEX merino
– 30/2 Nm merino
– cotton 8/2Ne & 110/2 TEX merino
– Cotton 20/2Ne & 110/2 TEX merino
– cotton 8/2 & 110/2TEX merino
– cotton 8/2 & 110/2TEX merino
– cotton 8/2 & 110/2TEX merino
– cotton 8/2 & 110/2TEX merino
Watching
Unstable Design Lab Experimental Weaving Talks on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@unstabledesignlab2756
Reading
Every year I like to follow the Advent Calendar by Byopia Press, this year the theme is Triangle. There is usually a mix of activities with the focus on paper crafts but last year there were recipes and knitting as well. https://byopiapress.wordpress.com/2024/12/01/byopia-press-advent-calendar-2024-day-one-and-a-simple-3d-star/
Kate Alberta Weaving 