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Blog Break .
The month of May will be full of different appointments for me, including one for a surgical procedure, which also means that I will unfortunately not be able to go to the Nadelwelt in Karlsruhe. Because I'll be off to NESAT following that, I'm putting the shop on hold for a while, and orders coming in will be sent off after May 28, when I will be back.
I'll also be having a blog break during that time, so I can take all the time necessary for recovering and don't need to squeeze in blogging between coming back home and going off to NESAT.
So I will leave you with this image of my test weave for the fabric reconstruction:
The lower part is the one that's the best fit to what we are going for. The little test piece was done weaver-tensioned, and my selvedges are still, well, let's phrase it kindly and say they are offering a lot of room for improvement. But it's doing okay for what it was intended for, which is answering the questions "how will it look, approximately" and "will we get into the right range of thread density" and "does the amount of twist in the threads look about right".
And then, just like with knitting swatches... you go for the big thing, and you hope. Which is what will happen while I'm off the grid, or a bit afterwards, depending on how things go, timing-wise. Keep your fingers crossed all goes well!
Comments 1
Isn't the selvedge something to worry about in a later stage? It seems to me a lot more important that, with this yarn, one can weave the desired cloth.
Getting both selvedges nice with a twill weave can be tricky anyway. Sometimes it works better with one warp end more or less, to make sure that the weft binds the outer threads every time. On a loom it can sometimes be influenced by starting with the weaving on the other side of the warp.
I wish you all the best with your health issues an hope you have a wonderfull time at Nesat.
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