More Doubleweave Adventures with Painted Warps

Dec 29

There’s so much to be gained by taking workshops with other weavers and other artists! I finally got back into weaving my Horoscope Doubleweave from the Outer Banks “Horoscope Doubleweave” workshop with Kathie Roig and Bonnie Tarses. I selected to weave a portion of Mary Meigs Atwater’s Horoscope for the workshop. As a special part of the workshop, Kathie created our own personal Horoscope Doubleweave. I have not had the opportunity to wind the warp, but decided to use the Desert Dreams Cotton Cloud kit for remaining weft colors. I pulled out the Horoscope once again and decided to would attempt to come up with a systematic way to introduce the two weft colors according throughout the remaining warp.

As mentioned in my previous blog, “Name Block Designs, Checkerboards, and More Deflected Doubleweave”, the block threading draft used the name of my Grandmother, Phoebe. For my own continual learning and weaving, I decided to design a new doubleweave one layer at a time by designing in the reed and tieing on to the pre-existing name draft Phoebe threading. I used three different painted warps by Kathrin Weber: Earth Rainbow, Tin Roof, and Tropical Breeze. To separate the layers, I simply raised my plain weave shaft and tied a cord around the length of the reed between the face and back of the warp ends. I tied on the bottom layer first using mostly Earth Rainbow and Tin Roof. I wanted this layer to be earthy/rusty. The top layer had more ends of Tropical Breeze Tencel, the lightest and brightest in color value of the three warps. There were also small striped sections of 4 ends where the ends on the back and front of the cloth were planned with the same painted warp.