{"id":165,"date":"2010-05-21T10:04:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T10:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2010-05-21T10:04:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T10:04:38","slug":"experimenting-with-rags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Experimenting with rags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"vox-enclosure-strip-link\" title=\"Ragweaving2\" href=\"http:\/\/workingyarn.typepad.com\/.a\/6a013486cd6e4e970c013486cd7be5970c-pi\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"asset asset-image-multiple med-img-mult\">\n<ul class=\"asset-thumbnails\">\n<li class=\"asset-thumbnail on\" tp:largeuri=\"http:\/\/workingyarn.typepad.com\/.a\/6a013486cd6e4e970c0133f52c7a85970b-500wi\" tp:fulluri=\"http:\/\/workingyarn.typepad.com\/.a\/6a013486cd6e4e970c0133f52c7a85970b-pi\"><a href=\"http:\/\/workingyarn.typepad.com\/.a\/6a013486cd6e4e970c0133f52c7a85970b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/workingyarn.typepad.com\/.a\/6a013486cd6e4e970c0133f52c7a85970b-75pi\" alt=\"image from www.flickr.com\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"asset-thumbnail\" tp:largeuri=\"http:\/\/workingyarn.typepad.com\/.a\/6a013486cd6e4e970c0133f52c7ac4970b-500wi\" tp:fulluri=\"http:\/\/workingyarn.typepad.com\/.a\/6a013486cd6e4e970c0133f52c7ac4970b-pi\"><a href=\"http:\/\/workingyarn.typepad.com\/.a\/6a013486cd6e4e970c0133f52c7ac4970b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/workingyarn.typepad.com\/.a\/6a013486cd6e4e970c0133f52c7ac4970b-75pi\" alt=\"image from www.flickr.com\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"asset-image-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/workingyarn.typepad.com\/.a\/6a013486cd6e4e970c0133f52c7a85970b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"at-xid-6a013486cd6e4e970c0133f52c7a85970b\" src=\"http:\/\/workingyarn.typepad.com\/.a\/6a013486cd6e4e970c0133f52c7a85970b-500wi\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image from www.flickr.com\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;I just warped my loom with about 90&#8243; of sport-weight Sinfonia mercerized cotton, and wanting to try something different, I did every other slot to stagger the warping threads. I &#8220;think&#8221; this makes the heddle closer to a 5 dent (it&#8217;s a 10 dent heddle). Because I didn&#8217;t do an even stagger, however, I&#8217;m getting a pattern, but I like it. I think I kept weaving too long with my scrap yarn. Still learning&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>I wanted to try using some rags, so I found this pretty material in my closet, about a square yard, and I cut it into 1&#8243; strips. I&#8217;m also weaving a row or two of the cotton thread just for variety. I think it&#8217;ll make a small mat of some kind, but it&#8217;s not very sturdy. To really use rags on a rigid heddle loom, I&#8217;ve read you need to pack the rags with a fork instead of relying upon the heddle. We&#8217;ll see how it goes. If I like how this looks, I may end up tearing up some more rags, warping the entire loom, and making a bathmat.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>What I&#8217;m not certain of is what I&#8217;ll keep weaving on this. I assume this mat will bea about 8&#8243; or so&#8230; that leaves me with a really long, narrow, staggered warp. Ummmm&#8230;. funny looking scarf, maybe?<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;I just warped my loom with about 90&#8243; of sport-weight Sinfonia mercerized cotton, and wanting to try something different, I did every other slot to stagger the warping threads. I &#8220;think&#8221; this makes the heddle closer to a 5 dent (it&#8217;s a 10 dent heddle). Because I didn&#8217;t do an even stagger, however, I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,20],"tags":[105,17,188,43,14],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glimakra-emilia","category-weaving-2","tag-glimakra-emilia-2","tag-loom","tag-rags","tag-rigid-heddle","tag-weaving"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wmm6-2F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}