Balanced twill weave in red, gold, yellow and white. The effect of balancing warp and weft is a square plaid.
Close up of the weaving in progress
Monday #WeavingLikeAViking
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Balanced red and yellow plaid very nearly balanced
Deciding on plaid vs all red border
Chevron on the center pops in red against the yellow background
Friday #WeavingLikeAViking. Starting to weave the 2/2 twill, including accidental but fabulous chevron.
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Each thread in the warp, more than 250, has been pulled through a vertical metal heddle and then one slot in the reed (horizontal in this photo). Colors are dark burgundy red, bright sunshine yellow, gold, and very few white
The reed is now vertical and the threads are tied to the loom in bundles
Ready to weave. The warp pattern is now clear, with stripes of red in between broader stripes of yellow and gold (red-gold-yellow-white-yellow-gold-red) The white stripes are very narrow
Wednesday #WeavingLikeAViking. Slayed that reed like it was dragon! Ready to weave 2/2 twill now, which Vikings weavers used, in cotton, which they did not.
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Half of the warp, on the loom but I'll need to pull each thread through a heddle. Red, sunshine yellow, gold, white.
Close up of what will end up as one inch of warp, twelve threads, each pulled through a heddle.
Setting up the warp. Friday #WeavingLikeAViking, if Vikings wove dish towels. They did weave twill, and so will I.
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A long green scarf (or table runner) lies on a table. Rows of purple, teal, and purple again, woven in a pretty pattern, are visible at the ends. Small squares of the same pattern arr scattered across the rest of the scarf
Completed experiment in supplemental weft. Monday #WeavingLikeAViking
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A small, messy ball of purple yarn sits in my hand.
Today was as much unweaving as it was weaving. Friday #WeavingLikeAViking supplemental weft update
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Light green yarn as the warp tied onto the loom. The weft features a light green backdrop with a wife horizontal stripe of a vibrant purple design that leaps out visually.
Belated Friday #WeavingLikeAViking. Not that overshot was a Viking-Age technique, but other forms of supplemental weft were so I'm going with it.
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Fine green yarn on a warping board. At the top, the fibers cross on an "X" pattern called the "lease." I'll use this later to move the yarn to the loom.
The same yarn lower down on the warping board -- which isn't a board but a bunch on pegs on a frame. I can wind many yards of yarn around the pegs so they won't tangle, and I'll have everything ready to warp the loom. On this part of the frame I've been counting off 20 strands at a time, because my project will require 20 warp ends per inch on the loom.
Starting a new project and learning something new. A day late posting Friday's #WeavingLikeAViking
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A rectangular bag woven in greens and browns and some oranges
The lining fabric of the bag is... Robin Hood themed! Here you can see a bow and a feathered cap
Finished the first of two Robin Hood bags. Friday #WeavingLikeAViking
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Approximately 12" by 62", the image is a long weaving of green and orange bands, similar in shape to a scarf.
Now folded into the shape I plan to sew, the "scarf" is now a 12" by 12" bag, mostly green with two narrow orange bands and a wide orange band that works as a front flap for the bag. Near the "bag" and positioned as its shoulder strap is a tablet woven band with the same orange and green.
It's off the loom now, and the second pic is my not-yet-executed plan. The band is my own tablet weaving, so Friday #WeavingLikeAViking continues!
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Threads on a loom. The warp is green and white and beige and gold. The weft is a textured pattern of wide dark green stripes and very norrow orange stripes.
Threads on a loom. The warp is green and white and beige and gold. The weft is a textured pattern of a wide stripe of ornage and a wide stripe of less textured dark green.
Not Friday and not #WeavingLikeAViking but I'm pleased with how it's going. It's only my second time playing with rosepath patterns and my first time on a floor loom with it.
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Warp threads in red, yellow and blue tied to a peg
Blue weft thread wrapped around a popsicle stick
The woven band, on the loom, showing parallel zigzag lines in red, yellow, blue, yellow, repeat.
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Completed a tablet woven band on the inkle loom. Light blue field with dark blue oval rimmed in pink and red with a light blue center, repeated.
New pattern, so far the loom is warped but not yet woven. Gray at the edges with bright yellow, and dark and light purples.
My first (and second) rag rug, in stripes of sage green, pink flowers, and a few shots of dark maroon.
Yikes , I have been weaving just forgot to post! Finished a thing, started a thing, finished a fun thing on a very un-Viking floor loom. #WeavingLikeAViking
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Tablet woven band in progress on the inkle loom. The design features a light blue background with oval shapes in dark blue, outlined by pink and magenta, running down the center of the band.
The finished band, curled up on a tabble.
#WeavingLikeAViking (sort of). More historically accurate weaving up soon
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#WeavingLikeAViking. Tiny phone keyboard gets me every time
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Close up of dark and light sage thick green weft fabrice with dusty rose warp thread
After the greens, a row of dark burgundy and then several rows of pink floral weft
Friday #WeavingLikeAViking
Broadly conceived, in the sense that I am recycling old clothes and other pieces and making something attractive with the remains (I hope!). Like a proper Viking would
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Three panels made of plastic fencing, each 3 foot square, set up in a triangle. Kids' hands can be seen weaving each side in brightly colored strips of plastic and fabric.
Friday (even if I'm posting on Sunday) #WeavingLikeAViking, another kids edition. More "tapestries," this time landscape, seascape and spacescape.
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A cube of plastic chickenwire fencing, where one side has a simple fish outlined in light blue. Small hands are weaving the fish inside the outliek with strips of mermaid scale fleece
The fish, nearly half finished.
Friday (Saturday) #WeavingLikeAViking, kids edition. Is it a tapestry with a soumac outlined figure willed with supplemental plainwoven weft? You know what, pretty close. I didn't take a final hoto of the chaotic seascape that came to surround the fish, but I'll get one once I unload everything.
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Close up of the warp threads, in beiges and dusty rose.
Beginning to weave the edge with the darker beige as weft and I remain obsessed with the beauty of these colors.
Close up of the few inches I've woven. The plainweave pattern is clear here, with the darker beige weft thread weaving over/under/over/under each of the warp threads
Friday #WeavingLikeAViking OK, the only truly Viking-Age this about this is the plainweave, but isn't it pretty?
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My own photo, from the National Museum of Ireland. A "textil border" from Fishamble Street. 172: 13417
When Laurel Thatcher Ulich said "well-behaved women seldom make history" she meant that most women behaved, and did "the silent work of ordinary people." On #InternationalWomen'sDay I remember the women whose names are lost but whose lives and work mattered. #WeavingLikeAViking
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Red and yellow wool woven ito box-like shapes of yellow with a red dot in each. The band is very thin.
The "loom" is a two-by-four with a dowl rod peg at either end. The yarn is warped between the legs and clamps hold the loom to a table.
The starting peg, with yarn tied to it and cards further down.
The far end. The excess yarn is wrapped around the peg and tied in a quick-release knot.
Friday #WeavingLikeAViking. Trying a little Oseberg ship-style loom with an Oseberg pattern (per Weave Along with Elwys). But I don't need to reverse the pattern since I'm not on the inkle loom so I have some unlearning to do ; )
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Tying the new warp threads (beiges and pinks) to the old warp, blues and whites and reds and greens. The old warp is already threaded through the heddles, so this is faster -- and it still required tying if all off thread by thread.
A side view of tying on the new warp
Friday #WeavingLikeAViking (Or the Viking Age)
"It is related that on his accession Hisham I (788-96 CE) sent for Mus'ab b. 'Imrdn al-Hamad-ahn, whom he desired to appoint as chief Qadi of Cordova. His wife was seen regulating the loom while Mus'ab was at a distance from her preparing the threads."
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The inkle loom is warped for card weaving in dark teal blue, light blue, lavender and a touch of maroon.
Saturday surprise #WeavingLikeAViking as I set up for a tablet weaving commission for someone who loves blue and lavender.
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Close up of the "M" design in pink, blue and green
Does anyone else also love the way the threads twist the colors together behind the cards?
Clusters of yarn (cotton warp), in two shades of medium brown with just a touch of pink, off the warping board and ready to use to warp the loom.
A close-up of how nice the browns and pink look together.
Friday #WeavingLikeAViking -- and also a new personal project. The tablet woven band is linen, and based on a band found in Ladoga. The personal project is a future birthday gift for my daughter. I'm loving the touch of pink with the warm browns.
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Seven woven rows, each two colors (green and pink, pink and blue, blue and green, etc). The colors start from opposite sides, come together randomly so the colors intrude on one another, and then each color heads back to its starting side.
Friday #WeavingLikeAViking, linen clasped weave off the loom. I'm feeling it could make a cute bag.
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Several balls of wool yarn, in gray-blue, natural, rust and yellow.
Close-up of the blue, yellow and rust balls of yarn.
Not actually weld, madder and woad dyed, but it is two-ply wool and should do mixed for some experiments. #WeavingLikeAViking.
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Three balls of lightweight white wools yarn.
A yarn "swift" with a skein of yarn wrapped around it. Not pictured is the ball winder to the right. The yarn spins off the swift and get wrapped into a ball on the ball winder.
#WeavingLikeAViking but I forgot to post on Friday. I'm going to be skeining off a bunch of lightweight 2-ply wool yarns to try to tablet weave with something closer to the Viking Age.
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