Fresh Off the Loom
I’ve been working on getting down a waffle weave . . . my first attempt (not pictured) ended in not-a-waffle-weave when I mis-tread the entire piece in some crazed new-weaver euphoria.
Some project history:
I’ve been playing around with colour wheels, and thought that it would be interesting to use waffle-weave to create a mix of colours. I usually use graph paper to dink around with designs:
(Some are prettier than others):
My idea was to use the waffle-weave to enhance the colour. I thought it would look cool to “box in” each of the coloured squares with white, grey, and black. I didn’t have enough space on the loom to do two reps, so I added a stripe of boxed-in-colour to the mix. In retrospect, I think I would have ordered it: colour, white, grey, black.
This project got off to a rocky start when I realized I had chosen a really bad green for it, and that fixing that would require re-warping, but not fixing it would be worse.
You can see the “wrong” green in the sample on the right. It’s too light and it’s too heathered. (It’s also too felted — the poor sample got felted about to death, and the waffling is consequently completely lost). The sample in the middle is pretty well fulled (and not felted to death), and the final project, on the right, is not yet fulled.
Based on the samples, I decided to twist the fringe before fulling this time. I’ll update when it’s fulled and let you know how that turned out. I’m kind of partial to the “wrong” side of the cloth:
