WEFT TEXTURES 2014
This was a series of designs for a simple weaving loom I constructed at home,
attached to the radiator pipes and my table. I made 1 shaft for lifting the warp threads to make the weft thread go through in one movement, thus restricting the design to stripes, mainly.
WEAVING LOOM 2014
Next thing I new I was in a supermarket and my eye caught some plastic coffee-stirrers. That`s when I decided to weave my own herring-bone kind of textile and to, quickly, make a simple loom with a shaft myself. How hard could that be?.. It appeared to be quite a Sisiphus task because even simple patterns like herring-bone require already several shafts.
So far the herring-bone.
I figured a simple chalk stripe pattern instead would do for a pair of `georgian huntsmans trousers`.
Though I am not really satisfied with the resulting `textile`, it was interesting to figure out how to make a loom and quite fascinating to watch the weft being rolled out cm per cm.
I managed to make the loom in a way I could adjust the tension of the warp myself bij attaching it to my waist and `hang` in it. I also made it possible for the weft to roll up to the ceiling underneith my table and at the same time to bring the warp down into the shaft in the same movement. That worked quite ok....
The new red warp is quite impossible to work with because the threads are tirning together all the time due to lousy installation and very irregular quality of the thread.
To be continued....!!
coffee spoons eurekah!
needed:
coffee-spoons
strong glue
wood
nails
saw
marker
...
ready!
second shaft I made with fishing line
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