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New project

By Tien Chiu | Published: May 14, 2010

I seem to be coming out of my wedding-induced creative doldrums, so have decided to take on a new project.  This will be a series of three doubleweave shawls on one warp, plus some extra for sampling.  It will be four-color doubleweave, and here are the colors I’ll start with: I’m still mulling over which [...]

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Profile draft

By Tien Chiu | Published: May 15, 2010

I’ve finally settled on a profile draft that I think I like: It’s got enough visual complexity to be interesting (yes, I know, I like things maybe a little too complicated, but since I’m the creator I get to do whatever I want ), while retaining a pleasing symmetry.  I don’t know yet how “treadling” [...]

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Progress, setbacks, progress

By Tien Chiu | Published: May 17, 2010

I have now dyed all the warp and weft yarns for the first project, a four-color doubleweave shawl: The two in the center (turquoise and gold) will be the warp yarns, the orange and purple the first set of weft yarns.  My intent is to weave blue with purple and orange with gold most of [...]

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The long and (cone) winding road

By Tien Chiu | Published: May 20, 2010

I’ve spent most of the last few days tediously winding the dyed skeins onto cones.  The good news is that the dyed skeins are even and consistent in color.  The bad news is that the yarn was underplied, so it twisted up on itself in lots of little pigtails, tangled on itself, and has broken [...]

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Designing doubleweave

By Tien Chiu | Published: May 25, 2010

I spent this morning playing with doubleweave design, and rapidly discovered that Fiberworks’ limitation of “only” 64 treadles was a serious limiting factor in what I wanted to do.  So I moved into Photoshop, and spent about an hour generating presets for doubleweave (thanks to Pat Stewart for showing me how!).  Then I started fiddling [...]

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