{"id":2076,"date":"2024-07-14T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/weaving-exercise\/"},"modified":"2024-11-25T13:59:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T18:59:34","slug":"weaving-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/weaving-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaving exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week saw a major breakthrough in the use of my new loom. A blog post by Katie over at Creative Threads<\/a> finally clued me in that my countermarch loom has castle pins which holds the shafts in place when you\u2019re tying up the loom. I had no idea that two small pieces of metal could make my life so much easier. Thank you Katie!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On my loom now is a very simple 10\/2 white thread warped at 20 EPI in a plain weave. While this is very boring to look at, it is a true test of my weaving skills, as there are no patterns or pretty colors to distract from my weaving technique, when this is finished, I hope to have a handwoven apron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the first few inches, we can already see that I need to work on the evenness of my beating and the tensioning of selvages. The only thing that makes this different from a completely plain weave piece is that I have packed the salvages to 30 EPI. After I have finished the yard or so for the apron, I hope to start practicing with a more exciting technique, which is an attempt at taquette weaving. \ufffc More to come. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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