Silk, merino, alpaca and mohair. Really, really soft. 190 x60
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Front of a floor loom, between the breast beam and the beater. woven web shown with a striped design, first the black Merino/firestar from the warp, followed by the self-striping yak/silk in colors teal, brown, green, purple, blue, green brown. An almost empty bobbin sits in a shuttle next to the beater. The yarn ns mostly black, but with grey and grey/black plied areas. It all has a subtle sheen

Got through enough of the other things I had stuff, and screwing up my courage, I started weaving the shawl. I am so paranoid about having enough yarn so I am throwing in all the handspun in the colorway family, and will separate different spins with warp yarn. #Handweaving #handspun #multishaft

Fabric being woven on a four shaft floor loom. The warp is 8/2 cotton, the left half in navy and the right half in cream. The weft is handspun merino wool yarn in shades of blue and green. The repeating overshot pattern is in the shape of a cat's eye with a long skinny pupil.

Sampling some fun overshot patterns with bits and pieces of leftover stash. This weft is some of my first handspun yarn from years ago! I especially like it against the dark blue tabby.

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Three samples of 32-shaft handwoven shadow weave. Warp is Antique (dark gold) and Nassau (blue). Top sample repeats the warp; middle sample is Antique and Loden (green). Bottom sample is Stone and Deep Purple. Draft created by Denise Kovnat. Woven on 40-shaft AVL dobby loom of 10/2 mercerized cotton.

Sometimes #stone is a color. Samples "Wind Fetch," a 32-shaft shadow weave draft by Denise Kovnat, woven of 10/2 cotton in shades of purple, green, gold, and stone. #handweaving #weaving #fiberarts #BlueSkyArtShow

A linen warp on a honey-colored wooden loom. Only the reed and beater are visible on the loom. The beater has a transparent ruler sticker on it. The warp is fine linen with its natural silver matte color. The weaving pattern has a visible diagonal texture. In the foreground the diagonal has a low angle - this fabric was made with very fine weft matching the warp so the pattern is compressed. About two inches of the cloth (the most recently woven/closest to the fell) uses a thicker warp so the texture is more evident and the diagonal angle is steeper but still well below 45deg.

Switching from 60/1 to 40/2 weft for a change of scale (same draft hw.net 12865). I think I have some unbleached 16/2 for later too. #weaving #handweaving 🧶

An oblique view of a 24 shaft loom made of honey-colored wood with a natural-linen warp in progress. The woven cloth is visible on the working area of the loom (stretched sideways with a clip temple) and winding around underneath to and around the loom knee beam. The fabric near the knee beam is a different pattern than the more recently woven fabric. An end feed shuttle with a full pirn is resting on top of the cloth at the breast beam.

Added 1000-some picks of after-work weaving.

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A view of an open countermarch shed (with floating selvedges) on a Glimakra loom. The heavy wood rails of the hanging beater dominate the center of the image, viewed end-on. To the right side the first few shaft frames are visible, some raised and some lowered. In the background on the far side of the loom a laptop is silhouetted against a bright window.

A detail of an inch of the new pattern of woven cloth, with some plain weave as a separation band in the foreground. In the background is the unwoven 60/1 line warp.

A wider view of the earlier pattern (twill organized into bifurcated triangles of more or less weft-emphasis), an already-ruffling separation with plan weave, and an inch of the next pattern.

Yard work yesterday = weaving today. #handweaving #handwoven 🧶

From the side, an 8 shaft Schact Baby Wolf showing warp between the heddles and cloth beam. Yarn is black in the foreground and background, grey and mixed grey/black as it progresses across the warp. Little glints of rainbow color are visible in the black from the firestar. Yarn is merino/firestar from Camaj Fiber Arts color names "fancy crow" and "sterling"

Loom is dressed! Just need to tie up the treadles and I can start…figuring out exactly what I’m going to do with the two (or possibly three) weft yarns. 1/3 #weaving #handweaving #handspun #merino #silk #yak

Tux cat stands in the front edge of my loom checking out the yarn

Bisbee, a rare Weaver Cat (yes that is a breed of cats and yes I just made it up) inspects my work as I sley the reed. #cats #handweaving #yarn #weaving

Our current guild challenge is to create several different towels using the same warp. Really interesting to see how different variables play out.

#handweaving #towels

Drawdown for the warp currently on the AVL: a half-double coverlet for summer months. Warp: 10/2 cotton; wefts: 5/2 (pattern) & 10/2 (ground) cottons. 29 shafts. Design based on the "Storm at Sea" quilt block. #weaving #handweaving #fiberarts #quilting #artistlife #mixingmedia

Weaving overshot.

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A green and white twill towels in progress, woven in 8/2 cotton on a Fanny counterbalance loom. Pattern from Anne Dixon, pg 87.

Absolutely livid about the #SAVEact. Trying to weave my way back down to a normal blood pressure.

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Folds of cloth in stripes ranging from gold through rust to dark charcoal, edged with twisted fringe. Woven on 4 shafts out of 10/2 mercerized cotton.

#Wood, in this case latilla fencing in Santa Fe, can inspire a fabric. 4 shafts, 10/2 cotton. #handweaving #fiberarts #NewMexico #BlueSkyArtShow

Im making a coat from a sheep. Not as silly as it sounds. Wash the fleece, card it, spin it, weave it and sew it. Here is halfway through still with pins. I have to finish the edges and add a lining. #handspun #handweaving #wool

Last day for the Alternative grid Weavings on display at Navy Pier. So grateful to have had this opportunity for so many visitors to Chicago to enjoy! #handweaving #recycledart #navypier #handdyedwool

Sigh #handweaving #weaving #handwoven 🧶

Day 4 of FIBERuary - rug weaving!
Not specifically yarn 🧶 related, but ive had this project on the loom for i think a year or more? Its thrifted sheets and fabric I bought a while back and im *hoping* to finish it here soon to start another~

[ #rugweaving #ragrugs #handweaving ]

I love woven iridescence so much. I was feeling iffy about this weft color at the start, but the interplay with the copper is exactly what I pictured when I planned this piece #handweaving #fiberarts

Photo of my view from my floor loom, showing a snakeskin like pattern on the wooden cloth. Being the loom, a very large dog is standing on the couch, yelling out the window

A Monday morning of Pyr yelling and weaving. I can’t complain #handweaving #weaving #fiberarts

Picture shows a loom with heddles being threaded with natural colored wool

Warping my large loom #handweaving #yarn #wool

A gray-and-white striped towel with one narrow rainbow stripe.

#One tiny stripe, one tiny rainbow, in a world of gray & white. 2/2 twill in 8/2 unmercerized cotton. #BlueSkyArtShow #handweaving #weaving #weavesky #fiberarts

The hindquarters of a brown tabby cat in loaf shape atop all but the last 3 inches of a handwoven towel that is getting hemmed with hand sewing. The towel is made of 40/2 linen in warp and weft (30epi, 30ppi) with a motif of slanted lines of huck lace.

The front of the same tabby cat, helpfully adding creases to the body of the linen towel.

A wider shot showing just how obstructively the cat is sitting. She and the towel are on the end of a wooden table. Immediately beyond the end of the table (about 1 foot away) is a windowsill bench with a very soft heated cat bed. She had been asleep on that bed until just now.

Hemming around an obstruction.

#handweaving #handwoven #cat

Tux cat chewing on a strand of yarn on a warping board

Another picture of Bisbee ‘helping’ wind my warp #weaving #handweaving #yarn

"Young Woman Spinning" (1513). Woodcut by Lucas van Leyden.

Good morning and happy Roc/St. Distaff Day. Now, get back to work. 😆 #handspinning #spinning #weaving #handweaving #fiberarts #holidaysover

Sweet little tux cat sitting on a chair next to a wool yarn warp (used for weaving)

Sure he looks sweet now on #TuxieTuesday but moments ago he was biting the yarn in an effort to destroy my warp #handweaving #yarn

Small black cat peers through a warp on a warping board thinking about the potential for chaos

Closeup of little black cat and her thoughtful expression

Baby Sooty is considering whether to help me wind a warp. #handweaving #yarn #weaving

A softly draped linen fabric with a pattern of fine diagonal sutures.

A detail of the handwoven linen fabric showing parts of several samples. Some of the fabric has text evident in the different reflectivity of warp vs weft floats. In direct light, the patterns are invisible.

A detail of the handwoven linen fabric.

The white hind paws of a brown tabby cat are planted on the linen fabric, now wrinkled, courtesy of the cat’s footwork.

A washed sample of the 60/1 linen in warp and weft. There are some things to address on the loom, but I have something to show for study group. #handwoven #handweaving

Translucent linen cloth in progress on a large wooden loom.

Hey see-through #weaving. #handweaving