Jean Scorgie

Usually a multishaft weave structure, weaving summer & winter on four shafts provides five texture variations on two threaded blocks. But with an easy and fast pick-up technique, impressively large designs can be woven. Two techniques, the traditional method and the simple method, allow you to weave runners or place mats with Snowflake, Star, Deer, Quilt Block, Heart in Hand, and Medallion motifs. Other projects include Hopi Maze Place Mats to amuse and entertain waiting children and Peace Towels with borders reading either Peace or Whirled Peas (your choice)… (altro)

Cloth cut on the bias (45-degree diagonal) is stretchy and easy to mold. As pattern weft, it constricts to intersect the ground fabric and then flares out to provide coverage for floats. Bias doesn't ravel but forms short fringes on each side of the strip. As pattern weft in monk's belt fabrics, bias cloth strips can look like chenille after the fabric is washed. Several projects woven in monk's belt show the effects of sizing up both pattern and background yarns to make heavier fabrics. Projects include Cloth Strip Totes, Chenille Gridwork Pillows, Purse on a String, place mats, and a bias Striped Tea Cozy and Napkins.… (altro)

Like our hair, wool fibers are covered with scales that overlap in one direction. When the fibers move, overlapping scales let the fibers travel forward but not back. Fibers moving through a fabric entangle, binding the collection of fibers more tightly the more they move. Fulling is a finishing process for wool fabric that uses moisture and agitation to shrink and thicken the cloth. We discuss weaving with soft, stretchy yarns because fabrics for fulling need to be woven loosely so that they are still soft after shrinking.

Projects include Origami Pillows, Swirl Hat or Tea Cozy, the Breakers Scarf.… (altro)