My daughter (4yrs) watches your video for several minutes; then she quietly says, “She has a happy face.” Your excitement definitely came through. We are planning on raising alpacas in the future. Eager to start this hobby/historical craft.
She starts off the video saying "I have so many projects in process...so today we're going to start a new project!" 🤣 This is a woman I would get along with!
I do not spin. I do not weave. And yet here I am thoroughly enjoying this channel. Your enthusiasm and passion are refreshing. Will be watching more videos on your channel as I crochet some blankets.
Sometimes the algorith points me at absolute gems, abd this is one of those cases. I know little of spinning or weaving, but that wool is gorgeous and the colors magnificent. What a wonderful thing to demonstate and share! Thank you.
Yes, isn't it amazing! I like to watch UA-cam when in crocheting and I felt like I watched all related videos 😅 This video is lovely and very interesting.
30 seconds in and I'm sold. "I have never been one to let [having so many projects] stop me from starting a new project. So today we are starting a new project."
So pretty! I'm a crocheter and this is the first spinning/weaving video I've ever watched. Very cool to see the fiber become yarn and the yarn become cloth! P.S. If the scarf came out a bit short, it would make an AMAZING rustic table runner ❤️
Honestly I'm in the same boat, and my husband can now blame this gorgeous video for my new found obsession, hand spinning my own yarn, and possibly weaving
@@lytasilverstar Good luck on your new venture! I probably won't ever spin my own yarn, any more than I'll sew historical clothes, but that doesn't keep me from enjoying HOURS of related content 🙂!
@@queenofroses09 Do it! I Crochet and spin, (I kinda know how to knit but don't really enjoy that) spinning is even more hypnothic/meditative that crochet. You easily spin for like half an hour and somehow 5h have disappeared.
When spun & woven into a sort-of plaid, I could 100% visualize a Bronze Age Celtic or Viking-era Scandinavian person wearing trews or an apron dress made of that exact pattern and colour combo (albeit a bit less bright from natural dyes!)
Same. I'm not a spinner or weaver (yet?), but I knit and crochet and am a lover of yarn. This is the first time I've found this channel and I immediately knew I found my people.
Dear Evie, I recently tried the same thing, using Z and S. I read (somewhere I forget where!) that this technique was used by Vikings when weaving sails for their longships. It makes total sense when you think about it. When the warp and weft are in place the twist will be lying in the same direction, so the fibres can lock together rather than across each other. Do a little diagram and you'll see what I mean. They were smart and understood their textiles!
This was also a major spinning and weaving technique in England in the high medieval period! The spinners spun warp Z twist and the weft S twist, partly to differentiate which was which. (There were laws at the time that forbade using carded fibres for warp yarn, as carded fibres were now being spun on the great wheel, and were considered inferior to the worsted spindle-spun warp yarns.)
I learned that warp and weft thread were supposed to be spun in different directions from a history class that covered the Industrial Revolution and how Richard Arkwright's water frame spinning jenny and Samuel Crompton's spinning mule made the rise of the woolen and cotton mills and mass production possible.
This is really cool. I'm thinking about how I dislike wearing woven shirts -- they're so stiff and uncomfortable to me. Always wondered about people wearing head to toe woven cloth in the past, and if I would find it uncomfortable in that same way. So this is really interesting. That stretchy flexibility... I bet that cloth would do well in moving with your body and shaping to fit your form as you wore it in.
Yes! I was thinking the exact same thing! A thinner yarn, a tighter weave, and a supportive wool kertle might be as comfortable as yoga pants! 🤔 I'm 100% experimenting now that I got my floor loom up and weaving!
Of course they always had that linen layer, the long shift that blocked scratchiness. But this is like spandex and Im tickled to discover it. Panels could be woven specifically for a stretchy gusset, for example.
@@JillianEve please Can you let me know just one thing 🙏🙏. In fact, it's a single, isn't it ? I'm a fan of you !!! Lisses from south of FRANCE (close Cannes !!!) 😘🥰😍🤩💖💖💖
Constructing the fabric this way on the loom is SO smart. Essentially you are in the midst of a grand physics journey! The twist going in opposite directions cancels each other out and "centers" the grain of the fabric. I believe that is why the fabric has so much "stretch" as well as recovery. I am going to do the same as you would like to do and plan to explore this effect on fabric that is used in garment making. If constructing garments with fabric made in this fashion it should mean that you have fabric that will wear better (less damage to the fibers because the twists reinforce one another), more comfort (the stretch moves with the body), and less need for darts to create clothing that conforms to the body's non-flat surface. What a great experiment! Thank you for taking us along on this journey.
Your finishing remarks about the qualities of the z- and s-spun threads in the warp and weft makes me think that medieval kirtles might have been more comfortable than expected! If they have extra give to them, it seems that the kirtles would fit and feel better than our same way spun warps and wefts of today. Really interesting!!
That makes so much sense. I remember thinking as a kid that I couldn't believe people didn't have tee shifting because of the fit of the hose and dresses.
I've wanted to weave since seeing Sally Pointer create her stone age vertical loom out of sticks and stuff she gathered herself. I can imagine keeping a vertical loom against a wall somewhere and working on it when I want without having it take up too much space all the time. I'm so intrigued by this added twist (ha!) of the S and Z twists that tend to interlock and want to spring back together into shape when stretched. I think with a vertical loom it might be easier to make a wider/longer piece of fabric than a table loom could handle.
I've got dyeing wool down to a happy result now, one thing I would like to share with you and your community. I recently purchased a rit dye in the color graphite hoping to get a nice dark grey (gray) finish. Instead, I got the most beautiful chestnut brown I've ever seen very similar to chestnut brown hair. Thinking the bottle was mislabeled I purchased another and tried again with the same result. You can achieve the graphite color by using very little in your dye mix but if you want the great color of chestnut use a 1/4of the bottle to a pan of 4 cups of water and simmer for 30 minutes or longer if you choose. Quite happy with this discovery and decided to share it with you.
Not a weaver nor do I even know how to spin fibers, but as someone who crochets it makes me really appreciate the process of making yarn and using it in different ways! This was great to watch, thank you so much!
This is exactly the video I needed right now! I'm spinning up yarn with historical reproductions of iron age spindles, whorls and a hand distaff based on the Oseberg grave, all with the intention of building a warp weighted loom and weaving a full wool garment. I had come across a few references to Z and S spun fabric, but struggled to find much in the realm of experimental archaeology that actually addressed whether this technique had any specific benefits to the finished cloth. Thank you so much for answering all of my questions in one go, while also making my task seem slightly less daunting, even despite the discrepancies in available technology between our two projects.
I have never weaved anything in my life but you're an amazing teacher tgat made it look so easy. I'm sure it isn't that simple and your scarf turned out so, so beautiful! Really nice job.
The woven colors are luscious. The cloth begs to be touched. Thoroughly captivating presentation. Thank you and the fiber gifters for a visually splendid experience.
This was a fascinating first video to watch from you! I love your willingness to experiment with new wool and new techniques and wind up with something unexpected. I've done very limited weaving and no spinning, but I am a professional seamstress and as soon as you showed the finished fabric I could see it LOOKS and MOVES like such high quality, expensive fabric. It's so cool to see what some of the factors that might go into the higher quality fabrics that our ancestors had, because we know they had tighter weaves and finer fabrics than a lot of what's available today. And the finished product is so cute!
This is the very first time I'm watching someone weave a piece, it's incredible ! I might add this skill to the ones I already have, it seems so satisfying.
I am a fan from the first few moments. Wifey has been trying to get me to join her in crocheting but this speaks to my methodical nature. Love your video and the results are amazing!
LOVE how you talked about properly spinning a woolen-spun single for use as a warp! Plus you can see how energized it is in your hand, very instructive!
The fabric pattern is such a delight, not quite a tartan but not, not a tartan. I'm a new spinner and love ng time knitter, always interesting to see what happens with handspun. The rolags look amazing.
Aah! This was mesmerizing to watch! Both boxes are stunning, and the plaid effect in your scarf is absolutely gorgeous too. The colors totally remind me of a Van Gogh. Thanks again for another wonderful video!
I'm here to learn the history. I love listening to audiobooks and learning about the history of the time. One of my go to subjects are Highlander historical romance. This video showed me how plaids get the different color blocks. I enjoy the story and the history! Thanks for the video.
Firstly, I also have never let a Work in Progress (or two or three) stop me from starting another project, either. lol! But I need to tell you that when you opened the rolags, I audibly gasped - those colours are truly stunning. Just gorgeous!
yeah I love that you tried Wildwool rolags. They are so fun to spin. I completely understand starting a new project, I have many projects going. But now I am going to have to weave singles spun in opposite. Love all of this. ❤️
You made the fibers given to you into beautiful yarn and into a beautiful piece. I wish to reach your level of talent one day when it comes to yarn making.
I love multiple projects going on, that way you never get bored. Tired of sowing the dress? Pick up those half-knitted socks! Don't feel like knitting? Grab the filet crochet! etc. On the cover of my sowing box it reads: I'm not messy, I'm creative! Lovely fabric you made, btw.
I love it! The colors are so fabulous, I love the pattern it wove up into, and it's so fun to hear your reaction to the historical techinque and the results that it gave. Even if I don't know so much about spinning, and a little bit of the technical terms flew over my head, it was still a super fun video to watch!
Oh, this is so beautiful! By minute 21 I was in tears of joy. Thank you so much for sharing this amazing technique/skill. What a lost art in my society.
Knitty has an article about making a single sizing for weaving that washes out after you've woven your fabric, but gives strength for your warp and weft through sleying and beating. I usually spin my warp and weft opposite if I'm using singles for stability so it doesn't "lean" one way, unless I want to do a collapsed weave. Fun project, thanks for sharing and re-sparking my singles weaving inspiration!
I'm not a spinner or a weaver, but I did used to be an engineer... what you say about the opposing threads is perfect logical physics! Love the fabric, beautiful colours too. :) Glad it worked out so well :)
Thank heaven you’re so honest with us - I’ve got something like twelve projects in process, I LOVE starting a new project! Maybe I just need a really good ‘make-it-so’ person to help me finish these projects.
You genuinely never fail to make me smile! I‘m a knitter and a crocheter, and I don’t weave but I love to watch you do what you love! Excited to see what you have in store for the future!
So I was searching through crochet videos and suddenly youtube gave me yours....? I always love it when I can find these wonderful stuff😊 Love from Korea!
You got more done in one day than I get done in 3 months! What a successful project. I like your magical music choice for this. I don't have a loom (yet) but that will definitely change in the future.
Huh, I totally didn't expect it to turn out with a few stripes. It's a beautiful project. Tons of great info in there, and I love the fact that you told us you didn't guess the weft correctly. LOL! I love that you don't pretend to be perfect. I feel better about my own 'learning opportunities'.
I have never done weaving (other than on like a handmade loom when I was like 6) and I wasn't interested in starting. Then UA-cam put your video on my fyp and I clicked coz why not. And UA-cam I DON'T NEED A NEW HOBBY! Your obvious love for your craft is really inspiring and it made the video super enjoyable even if I didn't get half of what you were talking about because of the lack of knowledge I have. But I may go down the google rabbit hole after this, just so I can keep watching because what you created is gorgeous.
Wow, learned a lot. And scarf is beautiful! And thank you for sharing the unboxing. I'm always keeping an eye out for ways to have a friendly online shop and love Wildwool farms response / going the extra mile.
Loved this! An amazing history lesson on fiber construction and a beautiful demonstration of weaving with a taste of all the steps required to make wool into wearable cloth that will become clothing! The materials you used were so lovely ,my compliments to the Wild Wool folks! I'm only vaguely familiar with the spinning/weaving process but O M G ! I am in awe of your skills! Wow! Doesnt matter that I would ever be able to do the same cause I know my own strengths but I can recognize a true artist and enjoy the beauty of their art! Thank you for sharing your expertise and I will return for inspiration! Definitely a new subscriber!
I just found you, first video watched, 8 minutes in, and while I'm not going to take up spinning or weaving any time soon, I love watching people who love their hobbies. And you are ADORABLE. So I've already subbed and turned on notifications. Can't wait to watch more! If only because your smile is so very contagious and I need more of that in my life right now.
I don’t know anything about spinning or weaving or making fabric but you made this so enjoyable to watch! The colors of the yarn are gorgeous and I find this process so fascinating, especially with the excitement you have and the information you gave throughout.
I have no idea of what half those terms mean, and have a very basic understanding from elementary school about weaving, but hot diggity do I want to know more! I’m a knitter and crocheter, but I want to get into spinning. You’ve just made me look very strongly at weaving as my next step!
Your project came at just the right moment! I was looking for a Tour de Fleece project to do with one 4 oz braid that I wanted to weave. I am so intrigued! I’ve got 1oz left on second bobbin of Z twist. I definitely added a LOT of extra twist, hoping for good warp. Cross fingers.
12:25 this is Magic! I’m a lifelong knitter and crocheter, and have long been spin- and weaving-curious. Grateful I stumbled across your video. I’m completely mesmerized.
It really came out lovely! I get so stuck in my tunnel vision of drafts on my table loom that I forget how amazing plain weave can be. This project really just lets the spinning and fiber stand on its own and shine.
There are manufacturers who do spin yarns in both directions. As for the stretching and bounce back, all fabric will stretch some on the bias that's how Vionnie designed by dropping on the bias. Also the weave in the cloth is loosely woven which allows for some stretch too. The bounce back is because of the twist which makes the woven structure pull against itself more like tug-of-war where one yarn pulls against the other so after you stretch the fabric it reverts backs to it's shape kinda like a rubber band when there isn't any pressure put upon it.
I love your videos. They are fun to watch, and very informative. You have one of the best smiles, ever. Keep up all the hard work. It's the highlight of my day.
Re your archeological spinning journey, do go take a look at Saber Fazer’s video of a Portuguese woman spinning. “Spinning with a Portuguese spindle” You’d also love Sally Pointer, a Brit like me who teaches making nettle cordage. It’s so fine it’s woven into cloth. Apparently they spliced fibre long before spindle whorl we’re thought of. Fun stuff!
Wow! I love watching people with handicrafts you are so clever, I am in awe of people such as yourself! Thanks for showing us the details of your craft, it is somewhat hypnotic! Keep up your great old fashioned handicrafts! I am in a spin over yourvery clever weaving, Julie
This is awesome! I was just about to type “you plied at 90 degrees” when you said it plied in the cloth! Yes! I’m not clear whether you washed a fulled the weft yarn before you wove? I’m thinking this worked so well because you didn’t? It’s great! You made tartan, girl!
I was thinking the same Bella - did Eve wash and thwack the weft as hard as she did the warp? I'm keen to try this, but it will be my first time not plying the yarn, so keen to understand how to best finish it before weaving.
I have heard that knitters prefer Z twist and crochet artists prefer S because Z untwists as they hook. But I have never looked that closely on the shelf.
I was wondering about that, but I didn't have time to do a deep dive into twist angles of various yarns. I have heard of some yarn intended for crochet that had S twist but I'm not sure how popular that was or if it would be a good yarn for weaving. More to research! 🧶💜
Hello friend 🖐 thanks for sharing your informative video ❤. Loved how you said the material has a stretchy bouncy feel ❤. We hope that your keeping well and having a good day Simon and Beth ♥️ 🙋
If you are interested in the Cricket Loom I'm using in this video, you can get it in my shop! jillianeve-fiber-art.myshopify.com/products/cricketloom
You went to all that effort to spin and it spun up great but then you went and used a little cricket loom you should of used it on ur floor loom.
It’s not even that expensive!!!! 😜😀😎
Is the Cricket loom you are using in this video the same as the one in your shop? Or would I also need to buy additional items?
@@lisasternenkind6467 It's the one in my shop. ☺️
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My daughter (4yrs) watches your video for several minutes; then she quietly says, “She has a happy face.” Your excitement definitely came through. We are planning on raising alpacas in the future. Eager to start this hobby/historical craft.
My first time seeing one of her videos. Your daughter is right, she DOES have a happy face!
please tell your daughter she is the cutest ever in the world ever, thank you.
❤😂 I agree with her little 4yr old perception. Spot on she is!
She starts off the video saying "I have so many projects in process...so today we're going to start a new project!" 🤣 This is a woman I would get along with!
I do not spin. I do not weave. And yet here I am thoroughly enjoying this channel. Your enthusiasm and passion are refreshing. Will be watching more videos on your channel as I crochet some blankets.
Sometimes the algorith points me at absolute gems, abd this is one of those cases. I know little of spinning or weaving, but that wool is gorgeous and the colors magnificent. What a wonderful thing to demonstate and share! Thank you.
Yes, isn't it amazing!
I like to watch UA-cam when in crocheting and I felt like I watched all related videos 😅
This video is lovely and very interesting.
Same!! This is beautiful!!
Hey .... me too ... 2 yrs later 🎃 10-29-24 😻SO HAPPY with the algorithm today. This will become a new "happy place"🧡🧶
30 seconds in and I'm sold.
"I have never been one to let [having so many projects] stop me from starting a new project. So today we are starting a new project."
So pretty! I'm a crocheter and this is the first spinning/weaving video I've ever watched. Very cool to see the fiber become yarn and the yarn become cloth! P.S. If the scarf came out a bit short, it would make an AMAZING rustic table runner ❤️
Honestly I'm in the same boat, and my husband can now blame this gorgeous video for my new found obsession, hand spinning my own yarn, and possibly weaving
@@lytasilverstar Good luck on your new venture! I probably won't ever spin my own yarn, any more than I'll sew historical clothes, but that doesn't keep me from enjoying HOURS of related content 🙂!
Same here
Down the rabbit hole you go!!!
It’s a slippery slope!
@@petebartlett2229 Yup! Happy Unbirthday! God bless us
I’ve been trying not to take up weaving… and I think I’m gonna fail now. This just sounds way too fascinating!
Do it! 😁😁😁
Do it. Become a cloth maker. Join the dark side. 😂😂😂😂
I went from ‘im not gonna take up weaving’ to owning my own 8 shaft in the space of about 2 months 😂
I've been a knitter, crocheter and weaver for years, now I want to take up spinning...
@@queenofroses09 Do it! I Crochet and spin, (I kinda know how to knit but don't really enjoy that) spinning is even more hypnothic/meditative that crochet. You easily spin for like half an hour and somehow 5h have disappeared.
That second box should be called the Van Gogh starry night box. That's what I thought if when you first opened it. The colors!!!
When spun & woven into a sort-of plaid, I could 100% visualize a Bronze Age Celtic or Viking-era Scandinavian person wearing trews or an apron dress made of that exact pattern and colour combo (albeit a bit less bright from natural dyes!)
@mistyroller3470 me too 😂 that was literally my exact thought
I thought the exact same
33 Seconds in and already you’re speaking to my soul. I love starting a new project and no number of on-the-go projects will stop me. 😎
It's the truth! 😅🧶
Same. I'm not a spinner or weaver (yet?), but I knit and crochet and am a lover of yarn. This is the first time I've found this channel and I immediately knew I found my people.
Yessss!!!
So inspired by this vid!,,, thank you!! And…..hadn’t heard of wild wool farms before, on my way yay!
SAME!!!
Dear Evie, I recently tried the same thing, using Z and S. I read (somewhere I forget where!) that this technique was used by Vikings when weaving sails for their longships. It makes total sense when you think about it. When the warp and weft are in place the twist will be lying in the same direction, so the fibres can lock together rather than across each other. Do a little diagram and you'll see what I mean. They were smart and understood their textiles!
Yes! 🧶🦗💜🥰
This was also a major spinning and weaving technique in England in the high medieval period! The spinners spun warp Z twist and the weft S twist, partly to differentiate which was which. (There were laws at the time that forbade using carded fibres for warp yarn, as carded fibres were now being spun on the great wheel, and were considered inferior to the worsted spindle-spun warp yarns.)
Yeah nah, vikings didn't know what an s was, they were in fact spinning sun runes 🤪
Okay sorry about that, I'll let myself out
@@ericdpeerik3928 too funny
Dude me too. And I'm sitting here like "nope nope. I do not need another hobby" lol
I learned that warp and weft thread were supposed to be spun in different directions from a history class that covered the Industrial Revolution and how Richard Arkwright's water frame spinning jenny and Samuel Crompton's spinning mule made the rise of the woolen and cotton mills and mass production possible.
wow i love you already… “i’ve never let having so many projects….. stop me from starting a new project” kindred spirit
This is really cool. I'm thinking about how I dislike wearing woven shirts -- they're so stiff and uncomfortable to me. Always wondered about people wearing head to toe woven cloth in the past, and if I would find it uncomfortable in that same way. So this is really interesting. That stretchy flexibility... I bet that cloth would do well in moving with your body and shaping to fit your form as you wore it in.
Yes! I was thinking the exact same thing! A thinner yarn, a tighter weave, and a supportive wool kertle might be as comfortable as yoga pants! 🤔 I'm 100% experimenting now that I got my floor loom up and weaving!
Of course they always had that linen layer, the long shift that blocked scratchiness. But this is like spandex and Im tickled to discover it. Panels could be woven specifically for a stretchy gusset, for example.
@@1st1anarkissed I suppose the linen could be woven this way too. A stretchier underlayer, that would be neat.
Modern woolen wovens are not made from the "next to the skin soft" wool. It's made from the basic white wool sheep, commercial. Scratchy stuff
@@JillianEve please Can you let me know just one thing 🙏🙏. In fact, it's a single, isn't it ?
I'm a fan of you !!! Lisses from south of FRANCE (close Cannes !!!) 😘🥰😍🤩💖💖💖
I don't know a single thing about spinning, but watching your videos is always a hoot. Your love for your craft
really just shines through the screen.
Constructing the fabric this way on the loom is SO smart. Essentially you are in the midst of a grand physics journey! The twist going in opposite directions cancels each other out and "centers" the grain of the fabric. I believe that is why the fabric has so much "stretch" as well as recovery. I am going to do the same as you would like to do and plan to explore this effect on fabric that is used in garment making. If constructing garments with fabric made in this fashion it should mean that you have fabric that will wear better (less damage to the fibers because the twists reinforce one another), more comfort (the stretch moves with the body), and less need for darts to create clothing that conforms to the body's non-flat surface.
What a great experiment! Thank you for taking us along on this journey.
Your finishing remarks about the qualities of the z- and s-spun threads in the warp and weft makes me think that medieval kirtles might have been more comfortable than expected!
If they have extra give to them, it seems that the kirtles would fit and feel better than our same way spun warps and wefts of today. Really interesting!!
That makes so much sense. I remember thinking as a kid that I couldn't believe people didn't have tee shifting because of the fit of the hose and dresses.
I've wanted to weave since seeing Sally Pointer create her stone age vertical loom out of sticks and stuff she gathered herself. I can imagine keeping a vertical loom against a wall somewhere and working on it when I want without having it take up too much space all the time. I'm so intrigued by this added twist (ha!) of the S and Z twists that tend to interlock and want to spring back together into shape when stretched. I think with a vertical loom it might be easier to make a wider/longer piece of fabric than a table loom could handle.
I've got dyeing wool down to a happy result now, one thing I would like to share with you and your community. I recently purchased a rit dye in the color graphite hoping to get a nice dark grey (gray) finish. Instead, I got the most beautiful chestnut brown I've ever seen very similar to chestnut brown hair. Thinking the bottle was mislabeled I purchased another and tried again with the same result. You can achieve the graphite color by using very little in your dye mix but if you want the great color of chestnut use a 1/4of the bottle to a pan of 4 cups of water and simmer for 30 minutes or longer if you choose. Quite happy with this discovery and decided to share it with you.
Not a weaver nor do I even know how to spin fibers, but as someone who crochets it makes me really appreciate the process of making yarn and using it in different ways! This was great to watch, thank you so much!
This is exactly the video I needed right now!
I'm spinning up yarn with historical reproductions of iron age spindles, whorls and a hand distaff based on the Oseberg grave, all with the intention of building a warp weighted loom and weaving a full wool garment.
I had come across a few references to Z and S spun fabric, but struggled to find much in the realm of experimental archaeology that actually addressed whether this technique had any specific benefits to the finished cloth.
Thank you so much for answering all of my questions in one go, while also making my task seem slightly less daunting, even despite the discrepancies in available technology between our two projects.
I have never weaved anything in my life but you're an amazing teacher tgat made it look so easy. I'm sure it isn't that simple and your scarf turned out so, so beautiful! Really nice job.
The woven colors are luscious. The cloth begs to be touched. Thoroughly captivating presentation. Thank you and the fiber gifters for a visually splendid experience.
This was a fascinating first video to watch from you! I love your willingness to experiment with new wool and new techniques and wind up with something unexpected. I've done very limited weaving and no spinning, but I am a professional seamstress and as soon as you showed the finished fabric I could see it LOOKS and MOVES like such high quality, expensive fabric. It's so cool to see what some of the factors that might go into the higher quality fabrics that our ancestors had, because we know they had tighter weaves and finer fabrics than a lot of what's available today. And the finished product is so cute!
I'm a crocheter and knitter who just stumbled onto this video, this looks like so much fun to do. :)
I'm only 5 minutes into my first video from this channel and this has to be the cutest thing ever. Her excitement is contagious.
This is the very first time I'm watching someone weave a piece, it's incredible ! I might add this skill to the ones I already have, it seems so satisfying.
I am a fan from the first few moments. Wifey has been trying to get me to join her in crocheting but this speaks to my methodical nature. Love your video and the results are amazing!
My new favorite UA-cam channel, I'm only 16 but I hope one day to get all of the tools necessary to do this, it looks so fun and peaceful. Much love!
It is very relaxing and calming. I've been at it for 34 years.
LOVE how you talked about properly spinning a woolen-spun single for use as a warp! Plus you can see how energized it is in your hand, very instructive!
That second box ... OMG! WHOLE BOXES OF GORGEOUSNESS. ENJOYING YOUR ENTHUSIASM.
The fabric pattern is such a delight, not quite a tartan but not, not a tartan. I'm a new spinner and love ng time knitter, always interesting to see what happens with handspun. The rolags look amazing.
I understand zero of the words used here but I do know that the color scheme is very starry night adjacent and therefore I love this
The color blend is gorgeous! Appreciate how you have incorporated all stages of a project...
I wish yarn art was taught in school. This is a useful art form.
As always I learned something new in regards to the old ways of weaving n spinning! Thanks for sharing! 🥰
So much to rediscover! 🧶🦗💜
Aah! This was mesmerizing to watch! Both boxes are stunning, and the plaid effect in your scarf is absolutely gorgeous too. The colors totally remind me of a Van Gogh. Thanks again for another wonderful video!
I'm here to learn the history. I love listening to audiobooks and learning about the history of the time. One of my go to subjects are Highlander historical romance. This video showed me how plaids get the different color blocks. I enjoy the story and the history! Thanks for the video.
Thank you for keeping a great traditional craft alive!
Firstly, I also have never let a Work in Progress (or two or three) stop me from starting another project, either. lol! But I need to tell you that when you opened the rolags, I audibly gasped - those colours are truly stunning. Just gorgeous!
Totally agree. The colours just sang to me!
Fascinating to watch the scarf come to life, it is so pretty. Glad to see old crafts being kept alive....thank you!
Was a joy to watch the making of yarn then the finished product. Beautiful work ❤
You are so adorable, I love your energy. So glad to see that there are people keeping these crafts alive.
I have no idea how I got here given my two year history of LawTube and I am not mad about it. Your voice is pleasant and your knowledge is admirable 🖤
I'm pretty sure I was watching Emily D. Baker livestream at some point while I was weaving this. Hi fellow law nerd! 😅🧶
I don't know that there are so much effort just for a peace of cloth. that's amazing 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
yeah I love that you tried Wildwool rolags. They are so fun to spin. I completely understand starting a new project, I have many projects going. But now I am going to have to weave singles spun in opposite. Love all of this. ❤️
Don't every let your WIPs stop you from starting a new project! 😂💜🧶
You made out like a bandit with that yarn shipment. beautiful colors.
I love how much it looks like a tartan 🥰 great job!
Absolutely beautiful. Color is splended
You made the fibers given to you into beautiful yarn and into a beautiful piece. I wish to reach your level of talent one day when it comes to yarn making.
I love that you explained the machine and the forethought leading to spinning.
I love multiple projects going on, that way you never get bored. Tired of sowing the dress? Pick up those half-knitted socks! Don't feel like knitting? Grab the filet crochet! etc. On the cover of my sowing box it reads: I'm not messy, I'm creative! Lovely fabric you made, btw.
THIS SCARF WOULD LOOK VERY BEAUTIFUL ON YOU !!!!! THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR KNOWLEDGE !!!!!
I love it! The colors are so fabulous, I love the pattern it wove up into, and it's so fun to hear your reaction to the historical techinque and the results that it gave. Even if I don't know so much about spinning, and a little bit of the technical terms flew over my head, it was still a super fun video to watch!
I'm so glad you enjoyed watching! 😊🧶💕
Oh, this is so beautiful! By minute 21 I was in tears of joy. Thank you so much for sharing this amazing technique/skill. What a lost art in my society.
Oh my goodness , that is so gorgeous. I cannot afford to go down the “weaving” rabbit hole…. But it’s very tempting - I love that little loom!!!
Girl, you are a kindred spirit indeed! And from your comment section, it looks like I'm in good company!
Absolutely! 🧶💕😊
Knitty has an article about making a single sizing for weaving that washes out after you've woven your fabric, but gives strength for your warp and weft through sleying and beating. I usually spin my warp and weft opposite if I'm using singles for stability so it doesn't "lean" one way, unless I want to do a collapsed weave. Fun project, thanks for sharing and re-sparking my singles weaving inspiration!
1:23 "Is this a good idea? I don't know." Love it! You're my kind of artisan.
Thank goodness, I thought I was the only person who started a brand new project while in the middle of a dozen others ❤❤
Definitely not the only one...... and add multipe hobbies to that adn chaos ensues... but fun!
I'm not a spinner or a weaver, but I did used to be an engineer... what you say about the opposing threads is perfect logical physics! Love the fabric, beautiful colours too. :) Glad it worked out so well :)
You're a rockstar, Evie! It's just glorious. I love your tools, too. Your expertise shines through on this project. Hugs
Thank you so much! 🧶🦗💜🥰
Beautiful cloth! The colours are amazing. If longer, it would make a perfect scarf
Thank heaven you’re so honest with us - I’ve got something like twelve projects in process, I LOVE starting a new project! Maybe I just need a really good ‘make-it-so’ person to help me finish these projects.
These are just beautiful to look at even before becoming yarn!
I love Wild Wool Farm! I usually buy their roving but also love their batts and rolags. I spin their rolags on my Turkish spindle.
That would be a wonderful spin too! 🧶🦗💜
You genuinely never fail to make me smile! I‘m a knitter and a crocheter, and I don’t weave but I love to watch you do what you love! Excited to see what you have in store for the future!
Beautiful scarf! And very interesting to learn a little more about weaving!
So I was searching through crochet videos and suddenly youtube gave me yours....?
I always love it when I can find these wonderful stuff😊 Love from Korea!
You got more done in one day than I get done in 3 months! What a successful project. I like your magical music choice for this. I don't have a loom (yet) but that will definitely change in the future.
Thank you so much! 🎶🧶🦗💜
Dear JillianEve, you made my day.... such a dream.... i can feel the wool all the way here - lovely, thank you
Huh, I totally didn't expect it to turn out with a few stripes. It's a beautiful project. Tons of great info in there, and I love the fact that you told us you didn't guess the weft correctly. LOL! I love that you don't pretend to be perfect. I feel better about my own 'learning opportunities'.
I have never done weaving (other than on like a handmade loom when I was like 6) and I wasn't interested in starting. Then UA-cam put your video on my fyp and I clicked coz why not. And UA-cam I DON'T NEED A NEW HOBBY! Your obvious love for your craft is really inspiring and it made the video super enjoyable even if I didn't get half of what you were talking about because of the lack of knowledge I have. But I may go down the google rabbit hole after this, just so I can keep watching because what you created is gorgeous.
The spinning and the weaving are beautiful, but the fabric is very intriguing! It makes me want to try it too!
Wow, learned a lot. And scarf is beautiful!
And thank you for sharing the unboxing. I'm always keeping an eye out for ways to have a friendly online shop and love Wildwool farms response / going the extra mile.
Loved this! An amazing history lesson on fiber construction and a beautiful demonstration of weaving with a taste of all the steps required to make wool into wearable cloth that will become clothing! The materials you used were so lovely ,my compliments to the Wild Wool folks! I'm only vaguely familiar with the spinning/weaving process but O M G ! I am in awe of your skills! Wow! Doesnt matter that I would ever be able to do the same cause I know my own strengths but I can recognize a true artist and enjoy the beauty of their art! Thank you for sharing your expertise and I will return for inspiration! Definitely a new subscriber!
That fabric is just so beautiful! Lovely scarf, lovely show! Thank you! 🧶💖
You are so welcome! 🧶🦗💜
I just found you, first video watched, 8 minutes in, and while I'm not going to take up spinning or weaving any time soon, I love watching people who love their hobbies. And you are ADORABLE. So I've already subbed and turned on notifications. Can't wait to watch more! If only because your smile is so very contagious and I need more of that in my life right now.
I don’t know anything about spinning or weaving or making fabric but you made this so enjoyable to watch! The colors of the yarn are gorgeous and I find this process so fascinating, especially with the excitement you have and the information you gave throughout.
Wow! That turned out beautiful! The project looks like you intended it to have that pattern, it's just gorgeous! You have a new sub!
I love your enthusiasm combined with how informative and academic your videos are. I can’t wait to try this!
I love Wild Wool Farms! I have gotten all my SE2SE wools from there. Excellent quality and very helpful, too!
They are wonderful! 🧶🦗💜
Evie's infectious laugh seriously makes my day.
I like your words magic lady! (For real there are so many words i do not know here. The work to be an artisan with weaving is astounding)
What a fabulous tutorial!! I will be doing this asap! Thank you so much, JillianEve! paula
Oh my goodness! So pretty 😍 and extremely fun & informative to watch the whole process from floof to woven fabric!! Thank you!
I have no idea of what half those terms mean, and have a very basic understanding from elementary school about weaving, but hot diggity do I want to know more! I’m a knitter and crocheter, but I want to get into spinning. You’ve just made me look very strongly at weaving as my next step!
I love the idea of using cloth like this for hose and other garments that might benefit from this sort of elasticity.
Yes! I think it would feel very comfortable!
Your project came at just the right moment! I was looking for a Tour de Fleece project to do with one 4 oz braid that I wanted to weave. I am so intrigued! I’ve got 1oz left on second bobbin of Z twist. I definitely added a LOT of extra twist, hoping for good warp. Cross fingers.
12:25 this is Magic! I’m a lifelong knitter and crocheter, and have long been spin- and weaving-curious. Grateful I stumbled across your video. I’m completely mesmerized.
this project came out so beautiful !!! i loved that little loom and the fiber you got was absolutely stunning :)
Thank you so much! 🧶🦗💜
It really came out lovely! I get so stuck in my tunnel vision of drafts on my table loom that I forget how amazing plain weave can be. This project really just lets the spinning and fiber stand on its own and shine.
That fabric was ab.so.lutely STUNNING! LoVeD iT!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
There are manufacturers who do spin yarns in both directions. As for the stretching and bounce back, all fabric will stretch some on the bias that's how Vionnie designed by dropping on the bias. Also the weave in the cloth is loosely woven which allows for some stretch too. The bounce back is because of the twist which makes the woven structure pull against itself more like tug-of-war where one yarn pulls against the other so after you stretch the fabric it reverts backs to it's shape kinda like a rubber band when there isn't any pressure put upon it.
I love your videos. They are fun to watch, and very informative. You have one of the best smiles, ever. Keep up all the hard work. It's the highlight of my day.
Re your archeological spinning journey, do go take a look at Saber Fazer’s video of a Portuguese woman spinning.
“Spinning with a Portuguese spindle”
You’d also love Sally Pointer, a Brit like me who teaches making nettle cordage. It’s so fine it’s woven into cloth. Apparently they spliced fibre long before spindle whorl we’re thought of. Fun stuff!
I'll check out Saber Fazer and I love Sally Pointer!
Wow! I love watching people with handicrafts you are so clever, I am in awe of people such as yourself!
Thanks for showing us the details of your craft, it is somewhat hypnotic!
Keep up your great old fashioned handicrafts! I am in a spin over yourvery clever weaving, Julie
This is awesome! I was just about to type “you plied at 90 degrees” when you said it plied in the cloth! Yes!
I’m not clear whether you washed a fulled the weft yarn before you wove? I’m thinking this worked so well because you didn’t? It’s great! You made tartan, girl!
I was thinking the same Bella - did Eve wash and thwack the weft as hard as she did the warp? I'm keen to try this, but it will be my first time not plying the yarn, so keen to understand how to best finish it before weaving.
I am intrigued by this bouncy fabric!
I have heard that knitters prefer Z twist and crochet artists prefer S because Z untwists as they hook. But I have never looked that closely on the shelf.
I have heard this, too. I think I knit weird because when I knit with commercial yarns it untwists. I knit continental. It's probably a me thing, lol.
I was wondering about that, but I didn't have time to do a deep dive into twist angles of various yarns. I have heard of some yarn intended for crochet that had S twist but I'm not sure how popular that was or if it would be a good yarn for weaving. More to research! 🧶💜
This is why I always say do what works for you! 😊🧶💜
Hello friend 🖐 thanks for sharing your informative video ❤.
Loved how you said the material has a stretchy bouncy feel ❤.
We hope that your keeping well and having a good day Simon and Beth ♥️ 🙋