A round about
Dec. 22nd, 2025 04:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
merrileemakesSo now I have my loom all set up for a simple brainless plain weave so naturally I decided to change that into hand manipulated lace because I am literally my own worst enemy.
In my monthly weave Study Group in December we were talking about woven lace structures and people had brought in many different examples of lace they've woven. It was really cool to see , including lots of pieces from weaver extraordinaire Jessica Norris.
But I was most intrigued by this lovely piece woven by Necia.
It's her design in leno lace, where you pick up warp threads and twist them around each other before you weave your weft pick, making little crosses in the warp.
I loved this piece so much I took a photo at Weave Study Group, and when I was sitting at my newly warped loom the photo came to mind so I decided to base my weave a it. I played around a bit on the loom and then had a chat with Necia, who was excited and shared with me the book she got her idea from.
I recently bought a TCL NXTPAPER tablet and I've fallen in love with its digital notebook functions. I mostly bought it so I could handwrite with a stylus and have the tablet convert it to text on the fly, because I manage chronic pain issues with my hands. But honestly, scribbling in digital notebooks has been way more interesting and getting a fun way to get thoughts out of my head and onto paper has been a blast.
After another chat with some other members at Canberra Spinners and Weavers about simple garments they've made I decided to use my silk pre-wound warp to make 2 long sleeve cropped tops. I took a design schematic off Pinterest and planned out how I'm going to alternate between leno lace and plain weave to make an interesting garment.
First up, time to test some weft.
From bottom to top there's a beige silk, a dark purple tencel and a lighter purple wool. I liked the idea of using silk weft to make a 100% silk garment, but the beige colour just washes out all the colour of the warp. The purple wool isn't that striking either, so I decided to go with the tencel weft. Tencel is actually really lovely to weave with and has excellent shine and drape.
Here's some leno in progress. It's... fussy. And not my favourite kind of fussy. I'm going to alter my approach to the garment so that I weave less leno and more plain weave.
Which is what I set out to do in the first place (weave plain weave). Sometimes it just takes me a while to get to where I should be going!
In my monthly weave Study Group in December we were talking about woven lace structures and people had brought in many different examples of lace they've woven. It was really cool to see , including lots of pieces from weaver extraordinaire Jessica Norris.
But I was most intrigued by this lovely piece woven by Necia.
It's her design in leno lace, where you pick up warp threads and twist them around each other before you weave your weft pick, making little crosses in the warp.
I loved this piece so much I took a photo at Weave Study Group, and when I was sitting at my newly warped loom the photo came to mind so I decided to base my weave a it. I played around a bit on the loom and then had a chat with Necia, who was excited and shared with me the book she got her idea from.
I recently bought a TCL NXTPAPER tablet and I've fallen in love with its digital notebook functions. I mostly bought it so I could handwrite with a stylus and have the tablet convert it to text on the fly, because I manage chronic pain issues with my hands. But honestly, scribbling in digital notebooks has been way more interesting and getting a fun way to get thoughts out of my head and onto paper has been a blast.
After another chat with some other members at Canberra Spinners and Weavers about simple garments they've made I decided to use my silk pre-wound warp to make 2 long sleeve cropped tops. I took a design schematic off Pinterest and planned out how I'm going to alternate between leno lace and plain weave to make an interesting garment.
First up, time to test some weft.
From bottom to top there's a beige silk, a dark purple tencel and a lighter purple wool. I liked the idea of using silk weft to make a 100% silk garment, but the beige colour just washes out all the colour of the warp. The purple wool isn't that striking either, so I decided to go with the tencel weft. Tencel is actually really lovely to weave with and has excellent shine and drape.
Here's some leno in progress. It's... fussy. And not my favourite kind of fussy. I'm going to alter my approach to the garment so that I weave less leno and more plain weave.
Which is what I set out to do in the first place (weave plain weave). Sometimes it just takes me a while to get to where I should be going!
