Ploshkin - Weaving Along

[Acorn]

That's wonderful!   

[Tamnymore]

Amazing @Ploshkin That's fantastic.

[Ellabella]

Absolutely beautiful @Ploshkin you must be so satisfied.

[Ohsewsimple]

That is very impressive @Ploshkin.  Must be very satisfying having woven the cloth as well as made the garment. 

[Lachica]

That's great @Ploshkin. Very impressive. I suppose the next step is spinning your own wool - but I recall you saying your sheep are evershedders so I suppose you'd need to scavenge the wool from fences & brambles. 

[Ploshkin]

@Lachica i don't know why but I've always had zero interest in spinning - I'd rather stand on a plug.  That said, i did do a drop spindle workshop last year just in case I wanted to incorporate a bit of handspun in my weaving.

[Ouryve]

The weaving police can go take a running jump. It's fabulous.

[Hideout Hen]

What an accomplishment. Well done. 

[Bodgeitandscarper]

Brilliant!!

[Ploshkin]

I'm embarking on a new weaving project.
Sis in FoD (not Flobear) has a set of 4 dining chairs, inherited from mum.  I remember them being bought  c1967.  They are Scandinavian design and look every bit as modern today as they did then.  I don't know what the wood is but it is a very light colour - she has the table too.  The seat and backrest covers are now decidedly threadbare (mum had re covered the seats once many years ago) so I have offered to re cover them with handwoven fabric.

I have warped my floor loom with some thread to do a pattern sample.  The yarn is 100% cotton, recommended by Haydn, the weaver in the weaving shop.  These are the colours I am using to fit in with her slate floor and newly painted 'Sahara' walls.
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I'm doing the 6" wide sample warp half and half each colour and I will do the weft in blocks of each colour too as I am trying various twill patterns and don't know which colour will be dominant with each pattern.   I have threaded the warp through the reed and heddles but haven't tied on yet.
Watch this space.

[Ohsewsimple]

@Ploshkin look forward to seeing these done. 
My Danish table and other furniture is beech.  But they also has maple at the time which was even paler.  I love Scandi stuff.  As you say, looks modern even if it’s older.  We’ve had our furniture 25 years I would think and I still love it. 

[Celia]

Sounds brilliant, I am looking forward to seeing it.

[Nevis5]

Wow, what a project!  Am in awe - I'm looking forward to seeing the results too xx

[Ploshkin]

I have woven a sampler with 9 different twill weaves (+plain weave) - all the same threading but different treadling sequences.  I have used each of the two colours in the warp and the weft so there is a block of 4 for each pattern.  It is really interesting to see how the colours play with each other - 2 blocks of the same weave pattern can look entirely different depending on which colour is in the warp / weft.  It's also interesting to see the textured patterns in the plain colour sections.
I am sending it to sis for her to choose what she wants.  She was quite keen on the idea of having each chair in a different weave and I sampled the ones she picked out of my pattern book and added a few extras until I ran out of warp.  There were a couple of treadling errors that I have marked so that she knows it is not part of the pattern.

Here is a bit of the sampler
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[Acorn]

Wow!!! Just... wow!!