Oh thank you! The big difference between both of those is just like crocheting eats far more yarn than knitting to make the same square inches of cloth though it is thicker, knitting uses more yarn per square inch than weaving I believe. Weaving sacrifices some of the stretchiness for more drape. I have no idea yet what this will be besides a shawl, but I will update folks when I get far. I need to deal with all of the treatments and washing it and such, and that can take quite a while as that saved for certain kinds of Weavers guild gatherings.
I hated the last double weave i did on the rigid heddle. Tension was a horror. To avoid floats as much as possible, i ran a pickup stick through the shed, looked through the entire length of it to be sure all threads were up, then ran the shuttle through. After each 4 steps were complete, i would verify that no thread was out of place and the cloth still separated. I got so disgusted that i quit weaving it for about 18 months, but, unfortunately, neglected to loosen the tension. When i started up to finish the piece, i found about 50 threads, top and back layers, breaking - most on back layer. I ended up cutting it off and reslaying the reed. I finished the ruanna but have yet to sew the thing up. lol.
@@lynnhelton2322 I hibernated a project like that, but I did keep it off tension. I’ve had a different project that wasn’t a long hibernation, but had something similar where the left 5 inches just kept having broken warp threads. Not the selvage threads which would make sense to occasionally break with higher frequency than within the project, but the left 5 inches. Which was multiple yarns. I decided that a cat had probably laying on that part and stretched it out or something, even if there was not a visible tension difference there, otherwise I didn’t have any clue what the cause was I checked, and there was no rough piece anywhere near my loom that was causing a higher abrasion, they were breaking behind my head, to this day I have no idea what was actually wrong. I doubt I’m going to ever do double weave on a rigid heddle again if I have any choice about it, but I am planning on doing it on at least my table loom to see just how different it iswith four shafts. I generally feel that it’s going to take less time and look nicer to weave two lengths and sew them together then to try to weave one length double wide and you get much more flexibility with the pattern and the ability to use pick up sticks and other augmentation. Double weave just seems like it significantly more than twice the work for just twice the fabric. And all parts of the process or our longer, more complicated, and more difficult, not just the weaving. The warping takes longer too. It’s just not fun for me. I hope it doesn’t take your love of weaving in general from you. Some people have one bad project and give up on the whole whole process. I hope even if your loom was in hibernation, you had a project that was more fun on a different loom.
🎉looking like garter stitch knitting 🧶 and slip-stitch crochet beautiful work I’m super jelly
Oh thank you! The big difference between both of those is just like crocheting eats far more yarn than knitting to make the same square inches of cloth though it is thicker, knitting uses more yarn per square inch than weaving I believe. Weaving sacrifices some of the stretchiness for more drape. I have no idea yet what this will be besides a shawl, but I will update folks when I get far. I need to deal with all of the treatments and washing it and such, and that can take quite a while as that saved for certain kinds of Weavers guild gatherings.
I hated the last double weave i did on the rigid heddle. Tension was a horror. To avoid floats as much as possible, i ran a pickup stick through the shed, looked through the entire length of it to be sure all threads were up, then ran the shuttle through. After each 4 steps were complete, i would verify that no thread was out of place and the cloth still separated. I got so disgusted that i quit weaving it for about 18 months, but, unfortunately, neglected to loosen the tension. When i started up to finish the piece, i found about 50 threads, top and back layers, breaking - most on back layer. I ended up cutting it off and reslaying the reed. I finished the ruanna but have yet to sew the thing up. lol.
@@lynnhelton2322 I hibernated a project like that, but I did keep it off tension. I’ve had a different project that wasn’t a long hibernation, but had something similar where the left 5 inches just kept having broken warp threads. Not the selvage threads which would make sense to occasionally break with higher frequency than within the project, but the left 5 inches. Which was multiple yarns. I decided that a cat had probably laying on that part and stretched it out or something, even if there was not a visible tension difference there, otherwise I didn’t have any clue what the cause was I checked, and there was no rough piece anywhere near my loom that was causing a higher abrasion, they were breaking behind my head, to this day I have no idea what was actually wrong. I doubt I’m going to ever do double weave on a rigid heddle again if I have any choice about it, but I am planning on doing it on at least my table loom to see just how different it iswith four shafts. I generally feel that it’s going to take less time and look nicer to weave two lengths and sew them together then to try to weave one length double wide and you get much more flexibility with the pattern and the ability to use pick up sticks and other augmentation. Double weave just seems like it significantly more than twice the work for just twice the fabric. And all parts of the process or our longer, more complicated, and more difficult, not just the weaving. The warping takes longer too. It’s just not fun for me. I hope it doesn’t take your love of weaving in general from you. Some people have one bad project and give up on the whole whole process. I hope even if your loom was in hibernation, you had a project that was more fun on a different loom.