Back in September I took part in a two day weaving course run by James Donald (one of my tutors from college) It was so much fun and I'm really please that I took the opportunity to do this course. I would greatly recommend it to anyone who wants to have a go at weaving. Hear are some photos from the weekend. I will apologise now if any of my terminology is wrong.
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| Setting up the warping threads. Round and round and round we go. |
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| Separating the warp threads with the separating rods at the bottom......oh and a cup of tea. |
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| The "disgusting pink stuff" was to help us count out every 20 warp threads. |
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| Starting to thread the loom. |
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| Attaching the warp threads to the back of the loom before winding them on. |
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| Warp threads on the separating rods. |
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| The treadles.......eek have to thread each of these. |
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| The warp threads separated out along the back of the loom. |
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| Starting to thread. |
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| Once all the treadles were threaded. |
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| More threading.....Two at a time this time though so much quicker. First job of Sunday morning. |
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| Tying onto the front of the loom....nearly time to start weaving. |
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Its a bit blurry but this was starting with a plain weave to draw
Starting the twill weave
The weaving pixie, domino.
We were obviously no fun.
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Weaving
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| Oops that doesn't quite look correct but I quite like it. |
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| We have a breakage ....... |
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| Tying in the loose wrap thread for now. |
Weaving
Weaving
Yay all done. just needs washed up and a few loose ends sorted out. TTFN
