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More tablet weaving, nearly finished.
Trying out some larger tablets than I usually use. The warp and weft are embroidery thread, which is making a nice smooth and flexible band.

#tabletweaving #cardweaving #backstrapweaving

A tablet woven band of many colours in the foreground, with a background of floor tiles, window and exterior brick paving. The band is on a backstrap loom with a wooden band shuttle placed in the shed of the loom. The tablets are made of white cardboard. The further end of the loom is out of the picture and is tied to the window latch. The nearer end is wrapped round a metal band lock which is looped over an out of shot waist belt (backstrap).

A couple more bands, these two have seven pattern threads.

I am enjoying weaving these in the evenings, trying to slow down from the day. I need to concentrate better on picking up both threads of the pattern warps as the back of the mostly red and white band shows the mistakes which resulted when I didn't!

#weaving #backstrapweaving #bandweaving

Two woven narrow bands, showing front and back of each band.
The mostly red and white band has mistakes visible on the back.
The blue, yellow, coral and black band has fewer mistakes!

This month I'm taking part in a WSD Online Guild workshop on Baltic and Saami patterned bands and am enjoying how nicely they weave up.
The patterns would show up better if I had chosen more contrasting colours, but I'm using up stash while I'm learning the technique.
These three were woven using five pattern threads, the next ones in the workshop use seven pattern threads.

#weaving #backstrapweaving #pickupweaving

Three pickup woven bands with five pattern threads, showing the front and back face of each band. The bands have been photographed on a wooden table top.
The first band has a white background with a mid blue pattern, the second is white and pale pink, and the third is pale blue and yellow.

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Go at your own pace, rewatch the content, and most importantly: LEARN THIS IN THE CULTURAL CONTEXT of the *centuries* of weaving history from the indigenous Andean weaving masters.

#FranquemontUniversity #AndeanBackstrap #BackstrapWeaving #Memorized #AlwaysLearning

🧵 My #Weaving Journey: In 2018, I enrolled to study again with @abbysyarns

After children learn to weave on 3-pairs, they move to key traditional patterns on 4-pairs to learn more principles.

I left this 2nd course convinced: (a) THIS was my weaving obsession, (b) I needed more beginning weaving friends so we could have a proper intermediate class, and (c) I should memorize the #Quechua terms.

#FranquemontUniversity #AndeanBackstrap #BackstrapWeaving #Memorized #AlwaysLearning

collage with five photos, captioned "Lifetime Band #02". 3 top photos and 2 bottom photos, showing different designs woven on center pattern threads of green and yellow, with dark red vertical stripes on the outside edges, dotted with white threads peeking out where the weft moves horizontally left and right. Shapes in the pattern sections vary between stylized S and Z figures with curled ends, diagonals running left then right, alternating with circles/eyes under the wide spaces of the diagonals (like a window in a hill), and stylized S/Z shapes with two diagonals in the center columns.

🧵 My #Weaving Journey: The first time I learned about #AndeanBackstrap weaving was in 2017 at an in-person 3-day intensive with @abbysyarns (long before #FranquemontUniversity )

We started where all beginning weavers start in the Andes: On what is described as 3-pairs and with Tanka Ch'oro

We're also introduced to the notion of variations and weaving from memory #NoCharts and body mechanics for weaving.

#FranquemontUniversity #AndeanBackstrap #BackstrapWeaving #Memorized #AlwaysLearning

collage of four photos weaving a narrow wool band. Top left: horizontal stripes alternating green and yellow, with dark red outside-edge vertical stripes (with white dots peeking out of the edges). Top right: an X and O alternating pattern starts. Bottom left: after the X and O, the shape morphs into diagonal tadpoles, where the tails point toward each other. Bottom right: two squared 8s touch each other, one in green, one in yellow. The band also shows the scale of weaving, since the band is slightly narrower than the width of my fingers.

🧵 My #Weaving Journey (rebooted): I rarely get to see my 1st and 2nd woven Andean bands next to each other (1: Left, 2: Right). This photo from 08-Dec-2018 shows where I started.

The bands were woven using a thick cotton mini (weft), which I think makes adorable white selvedge polka dots, like beads. ❤️

The yarn is what I call my "duplo" khaitu (bulky wool high-twist 2-ply) for easy-to-see demos. 🙂

#FranquemontUniversity #AndeanBackstrap #BackstrapWeaving #Memorized #AlwaysLearning

Three large balls of wool yarn (in mustard yellow, blue, and red). Between and the yarn is a single empty wooden spindle. On top, two patterned woven narrow bands -- each is dark red on the outer edges, green and yellow figures running down the centers, and white cotton polka dots on the outside edges (similar to white beads appearing on the edges)

My mother is dealing with her collection of stuff, which includes some of my grandmother and great-grandmother’s textiles. Unfortunately, things aren’t labeled.

Edit: the red piece is probably not Navajo, as both the warp and weft yarns in this piece are plied. I still need to figure out what to do with it, but that’s a separate question.

The belt is clearly backstrap weaving from somewhere between Mexico and Peru.

#weaving #BackstrapWeaving

Hand woven red tapestry with stripes and partial stripes of black, blue-green, and white.

Brown and white hand woven belt with angular, reversible animal and flower patterns. There are speckles of the opposite color in every “solid” section.

The red tapestry from the other photo is underneath.

oh, also this cotton dish towel i wove *had* color, until i washed it with washing soda because it didn’t seem as absorbent as i thought it should be.

the ugly brown warp stripe was olive drab, and the barely visible weft stripe was a complementary light green.

#fiberuary #backstrapweaving

cotton towel made on a homemade backstrap loom

Currently #SpinningYarn from Coopworth wool to make a warp for a friend who is trying to learn how to do #backstrapweaving. I just love this color - a happy accident from the end of a long day at the dye pots!

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