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More dyeing adventures

By Tien Chiu | Published: August 15, 2008
Last night I dyed the second (and last) set of weft yarns for the doubleweave samples.  It came out…interestingly.  The skeins aren’t dry yet, and the colors will shift once again as they dry, but on preliminary examination they came out both darker and bluer than I had expected.  I attribute it to the temperature [...]
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Doubleweave: possibly the coolest thing since sliced bread

By Tien Chiu | Published: August 12, 2008
Insomniac tonight, so I’ve been playing with doubleweave drafts.  Bonnie was kind enough to explain to me how to create intuitively clear doubleweave drafts using a divided parallel threading – this is possibly the coolest thing since sliced bread!  I’m learning about block weaves as well – I hadn’t realized it was possible to control [...]
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Trouble in paradise

By Tien Chiu | Published: August 4, 2008
My Workshop Dobby loom has started popping cables and (consequently) dropping shafts.  Can’t figure out why.  Going to call AVL either this afternoon or tomorrow morning. Dyed the blue and purple cotton yarn last night – going to do the orange and red today.  I’m not quite sure whether I’ll do orange and red or orange [...]
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Preparing to dye

By Tien Chiu | Published: August 3, 2008
My warping wheel is arriving late this week (impatience, impatience), at which point I will start winding on the warp for the doubleweave chapter of Bonnie’s book, Exploring Multishaft Design.  I’ve never attempted doubleweave before, so this will be quite interesting; it took me awhile to wrap my head around the basic patterns, but much [...]
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