{"id":854,"date":"2015-03-14T21:26:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T02:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/?p=854"},"modified":"2015-03-15T09:14:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T14:14:19","slug":"wedge-weave-weaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"Wedge Weave Weaving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m using my Glimakra Emilia rigid heddle loom as a stand-in tapestry loom, and it works great. The loom is a super star when it comes to tension&#8211;that thick, sturdy wood and metal pawls and ratchets make it possible. If I learn how to warp it better, I can see using this for tapestry weaving quite often. As it is, I started out perfectly with a warp wound on a warping board, but transferring over became very difficult, so I ended up snipping the ends and tying it on. My plan had been to try for a non-fringe selvedge. Oh, well&#8230; that&#8217;s how it goes.<\/p>\n<p>I had started another project using greens and browns on this warp, but when I discovered wedge weave, I unwove the other project and started this. I&#8217;m now sticking with all greens, probably inspired by the ongoing WAL in Ravelry&#8217;s tapestry group. The first two months were monochromatic, and I wove a tiny tapestry in blues, but I was never happy with it. So now&#8230; greens!\u00a0These are mostly needlepoint wool found at an antique store:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/rC1jfX\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8702\/16816374475_b1916e0b16_c.jpg\" alt=\"Greens\" width=\"599\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The warp is a four-ply Churro, and it&#8217;s spaced at about 5 epi:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/qFe5mM\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7612\/16196456893_94efef5bef_c.jpg\" alt=\"Greens\" width=\"599\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The string heddles I rigged up proved to be helpful only when weaving that footer. I don&#8217;t think anyone trying something similar needs to go to the trouble if using a widely-spaced warp like this one. The day wore on, and at 10 p.m. I found myself still weaving. Wedge weave is really fun&#8211;and fast as far as a weft-faced weaving goes. Now, I&#8217;m at a difficult spot in deciding what to do with the pattern. I&#8217;d like to make the center area stand out somehow, and the easiest answer is to use a different set of greens. The hardest answer is to inset some type of tapestry design, but I&#8217;m not certain how that will work out. Best idea is to try one, and if it works, stick with it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/rkzkfJ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7619\/16630436090_53e7f3a23a_c.jpg\" alt=\"Night Weaving\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m using my Glimakra Emilia rigid heddle loom as a stand-in tapestry loom, and it works great. The loom is a super star when it comes to tension&#8211;that thick, sturdy wood and metal pawls and ratchets make it possible. If I learn how to warp it better, I can see using this for tapestry weaving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[289],"tags":[35,34,32,17,292,31,303,14,345],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tapestry-weaving","tag-emilia","tag-glimakra","tag-heddle","tag-loom","tag-navajo","tag-rigid","tag-weave","tag-weaving","tag-wedge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wmm6-dM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","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=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}