We are armed with Jane Patrick's The Weaver's Idea Book, which is all about ways to use the rigid heddle loom to make a whole range of woven fabrics. It's a great book. Right now I'm making some place mats with a hemstitched border. I'm making 4 mats on the same warp, leaving about 6 inches of unwoven warp between them.
The warp is 3 colors of long-neglected stash yarn in cotton or cotton blend (no idea what the black yarn is or where it came from, but it feels like cotton). The weft is cotton that I used for many attempts at a summer sweater. It seems to have found its true destiny here.
2 comments:
Impressive and colorful!! Maybe you could knot and then cut the fringe kind of short, so it's more like an edging than a dangly scarf fringe?
You may be a novice, but your work doesn't look like that of a novice! I am swooning at its beauty.
Weave a circle round h[er] thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
S.T. Coleridge, 1816.
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