This morning, an email came in, explaining that I am STILL not getting the double hole rigid heddle weaving right…
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She pointed out that I am doing weft face weaving here, while the double hole rigid heddle are normally used to create WARP faced bands…
oops.
She also told me to not pick up the background threads on the even rows when the pattern threads are all in the up position.
I’ve tried that, and once again I have ugly long floats on the back of the weaving.
Hmmmm.
I really like the weft face weaving for the shirt that I am weaving, so I am going to continue weaving weft face.
And, I am stumped on the float thing.
When I did it ‘wrong’ and picked up the background threads, too, I got lovely reversible bands….
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I am feeling very frustrated, so I am just going to get back to work, meeting design deadlines, and will try again later.
Update: I sent her a note in response to her suggestion to drop the background threads…. going ‘ackkkkkkkkkk’……
She sent me a note back this evening, saying, Oops… you did have it right! Just couldn’t see it in the video!
So I am feeling VERY relieved. I had gone back and done more weaving, returning to my previous way of keeping the background threads in the shed, and once again, the floats disappeared and the back of the band is lovely and reversible.
Well, it’s NOT reversible and it’s a good thing that I am going to be stitching it to the shirt, because the back of the band is a progression of floatie bits and woven in bits!
Once the shirt is done, those chronicles of “the learning experience” will disappear against the shirt, never revealing their untidy little secrets!
AND… Yep, the weft face is not the accepted norm, but, I like it, and I am going to carry on in the wrong way, as I find it quite fetching 😀
I find it just fascinating that there are soooooooooooo many variables in this intriguing technique!
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