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Students often ask whether or not different fibers and different-sized yarns can be used together. In most cases, the answer is yes. However, when deciding how to mix and match different fibers – or even the same fiber that has been treated or spun differently, or is a significantly different size there are some important considerations, this article explores and explains what those are.
This stashbusting shawl really illustrates that plain weave can be anything but plain. By incorporating colour, different fibres, and other techniques on a plain weave threading you can weave something unique and beautiful.
The techniques used in this project include hemstitch, Brook’s Bouquet, clasped weft, inlay and hemstitch. Introducing multiple techniques as well as multiple fibres can result in changes that add to the originality of the project.
Plain weave might be the most basic weave of them all, but it can take you on grand adventures with even the humblest of looms.
When you look at plain weave in detail, it is beautifully simple. The weft travels a regular path over one warp thread and under the next. The warp follows the same pattern, over and under the weft, in a soothing rhythm.
This article covers the basics of plain weave, plain weave in other structures (like overshot, S&W, and undulating twill), and is just a gorgeous piece on this humble and brilliant structure.
We’ve all had it happen to us. During wet finishing, our cloth winds up with “permanent” creases – creases that refuse to come out, no matter what we do.
Are these creases really “permanent”? Are there methods to remove or lessen them when they do develop? Which of these methods work best (or at all)? Laura Fry experiments on the best way to diminish these “permanent” creases and how to keep them from presenting in the first place!
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