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On the agenda – October 2011

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Learn to weave a random warp scarf at our Guild meeting this Saturday, October 1 at City Arts in the Weaving Room on the 2nd floor.  The doors open at 9:30 a.m.

Social time is from 9:30 to 10 a.m. with the meeting starting at 10 a.m.  Bring your tie-dyed items from our last meeting for show and tell!

Mary Utting-Booker and Diana Collins will teach you how to weave a  fun, colorful random warp scarf.   Mary will show us how to pick colors from a couple of novelty yarns and blend with other yarns to weave into a colorful random warp scarf.  She will share with you her tips and shortcuts on warping and threading your loom.

Bring 30 yards of various novelty, solid or other weaving yarns and a warping board if  you have one.  If you want to bring your  table loom with an 8-dent reed, Mary and Diana will assist you with warping and threading as time permits.  A few warping boards will also be available for use.  Swapping and sharing of yarns will be encouraged.  Random warp scarves that Mary and Diana wove over the summer will be on display.

March 2010 program

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Double Weaving

The term “double weaving” can be used to refer to vastly different techniques; the Guild meeting program included presentations of two kinds, which were described by Nancy Squire.

The first technique is also called double-width weaving, and is a method that allows the weaver to create fabric that is twice as wide as the loom itself.  This is done by weaving in two layers, with the weft ‘turning the corner’ at one edge to connect the layers and form what will be the center of the finished fabric.  The other edge is left open on both the top and bottom layers to form the selvedges.

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Sondra Vail and Sam Criss displayed and talked about their projects, all woven using this technique, and discussed potential problems and solutions.

Next, Nancy explained the double weaving technique by which two layers are woven simultaneously, with warp and weft interchanging layers to produce reverse-colored images on front and back of the fabric.  The resulting open spaces can even be stuffed, which results in a quilted appearance.

She displayed an Egyptian piece with a peacock pattern as illustration, then Kathy Losee showed several items she wove with cotton singles and sewing thread.  Mary Sue Foster told about a hanging she made of horsehair, woven SIX layers at a time.

Nancy talked about variations on this technique that could produce not only geometric shapes, but pictorial designs.  She then passed around several small weavings, some of which were woven by Helen Canzoneri.