Sunday, April 22, 2007

Maybe a Weaver?

I'm off at the CNCH (Norther California Handweavers) conference this weekend to see if it is possible that there can be a type of weaving that I enjoy. I suspect that even though I don't like weaving on regular looms, mostly because I truly despise the warping process, I will like both tapestry and knotted rug weaving, because they are done on frame looms and the warping process is not nearly as tedious (tastes differ here, I conceed).

Here are the yarns I spun and dyed for my knotted pile sample:

And here is the motif from one of our carpets that I will be basing my design on for one of my 5" x 6" samples:
Sara Lamb, my teacher for the weekend, tells me that I will have to do only part of the motif, as I have an area of 30 knots x 40 knots in my sample. Not so big, but I will still only get about 1" done, she says.


The conference is at Asilomar, a lovely park conference center on the Monteray Peninsula. Beach photos in a future post.

1 Comments:

Blogger Marfa's Mewsings said...

Hon,
Look forward to hearing about the weaving class,
Cool colors of your hand-dyed & hand-spun yarns. Especially like that lime green.
See you soon ^..^
XOXO

7:34 AM, April 23, 2007  

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