{"id":918,"date":"2015-06-25T01:54:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T06:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/?p=918"},"modified":"2015-06-25T10:06:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T15:06:54","slug":"band-weaving-trial-and-error-and-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=918","title":{"rendered":"Band Weaving: Trial and Error&#8230; and Error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it me? Is it the heddle? Or, is it the combination of materials? Probably a little of all three.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/vaz44W\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/505\/19142643752_d185bdffb2_c.jpg\" alt=\"Trial and Error\" width=\"599\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I started an ambitious band design, something I found in the files of the Yahoo group, Bands and Braids. This design wasn&#8217;t charted, so I put it into a grid. Turns out it has 68 picks for one complete design&#8230; that&#8217;s a lot! You can see where I started and stopped and started again. I chose cotton for the background threads and wool for the pattern threads, and I found I had a similar problem to the previous band I completed: the cotton is saggier than the pliable wool, and that leads to tension problems. Plus, the wooden double-slotted heddle I bought has some snags here and there which are doing a number on the warp and it&#8217;s fraying quite a bit. I&#8217;m not totally thrilled with the heddle, but I&#8217;m willing to\u00a0sand down the slots, which should help; however,\u00a0I&#8217;ve gone ahead and ordered two different sizes of double-slotted plastic heddles and a few other doo-dads from <a href=\"http:\/\/bandweaving.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stoorstalka<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m anxious to try an all-wool band and set the cotton aside for awhile. I like the lacy and light feeling it adds, so I&#8217;ll use it again\u00a0when I&#8217;m more experienced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it me? Is it the heddle? Or, is it the combination of materials? Probably a little of all three. I started an ambitious band design, something I found in the files of the Yahoo group, Bands and Braids. This design wasn&#8217;t charted, so I put it into a grid. Turns out it has 68 [&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":[353,20],"tags":[85,32,14],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-band-weaving","category-weaving-2","tag-band","tag-heddle","tag-weaving"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wmm6-eO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","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=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}