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Things going on here?
Guess what is happening here?
Right. More yarn:
One batch still on the skeiner...
and one batch already off it and waiting for its colleague.
Both are waiting for a third one, and then I'll have done enough for the weft of the next batch. After that, it's straight on to the warp - which will have a little more twist than the weft, and will be spun in the other direction, and will be from a different kind of wool, and a little thinner. (This weft, by the way, is fairly thick with about 1.5-2 mm.)
With the last batch of this weft, I'm planning to do a little photo documentation of the setting effects - it does look like things happen to the yarn and the yarn twist angle between spinning, setting the twist and weaving, so the yarn in the woven fabric is a little different from the yarn right after spinning. It might be subtle, though, but I am definitely looking into that a bit. So: next skein - photo op before setting the twist (which I'm doing by steaming the yarn enthusiastically) and after.
Right. More yarn:
One batch still on the skeiner...
and one batch already off it and waiting for its colleague.
Both are waiting for a third one, and then I'll have done enough for the weft of the next batch. After that, it's straight on to the warp - which will have a little more twist than the weft, and will be spun in the other direction, and will be from a different kind of wool, and a little thinner. (This weft, by the way, is fairly thick with about 1.5-2 mm.)
With the last batch of this weft, I'm planning to do a little photo documentation of the setting effects - it does look like things happen to the yarn and the yarn twist angle between spinning, setting the twist and weaving, so the yarn in the woven fabric is a little different from the yarn right after spinning. It might be subtle, though, but I am definitely looking into that a bit. So: next skein - photo op before setting the twist (which I'm doing by steaming the yarn enthusiastically) and after.
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Harma
on Tuesday, 24 January 2017 17:47
Also check for differences in the twist angle in the fabric close to the starting point and further in the fabric. The handling of a tight twisted yarn during the warping process removes twist from the first part of every warp end. With the Forum samples we didn't weave past that first looser section before re-threading, so it will be interesting to see if the twist angle is different after the first half meter of weaving.
For the first time after the Forum, I'm going to weave something different from a plain weave. Eight shaft, four colours echo weave as a sampler.