Testing Double Weave Double Wide 02

[@LiuteriaSabatini]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻bravó, is the first time I can understand this process clearly. Many thanks for sharing your passion with us.

[@aus71383]

The pattern is upside down on the bottom half because of the fold.....the part where it goes around the corner that you showed in the first video with MS Paint was very helpful. I was trying to wrap my head around how this can work. It seems like on your Louet loom where it moves the heddles up and down it would work a lot easier - I've been browsing and learning about looms, your videos are the best. I'm interested in weaving, but so are my kids - they have a more or less toy loom that doesn't wind or anything. Thanks for being such a good teacher and sharing your time and experiences - I'm learning a lot.

[@ZipZipInkspot]

Very much enjoyed these two double-weave videos. Had not been able to get my brain to follow how double-weave works until now. Such clear and logical, nicely paced presentation. Summer-winter's still above my pay grade, but double-weave itself, think I can manage. Very much appreciate the time and care you put into teaching via these videos. My Dad retired from programming too, so had to laugh. Programmers and engineers are super designers/testers/teachers!

[@adamakaru2683]

Unbelievable! that weaving is very complicated and great experience need to do the; thank you, so much for your time.

[@37homecrafts]

Hi, I am a newbie to weaving and I m so pleased to have found you on here, I have watched quite a few of your videos and really enjoy the way you explain the techniques, and the beautiful results. Thanks so much. X

[@curmudgeon66]

37homecrafts You're welcome.

[@camelheights]

I love your videos!!! I'm glad you made this mistake that I can learn from. I have been weaving for only one year. Your videos have encouraged me to try all of the beautiful things that I fell in love with to pick up weaving.

[@curmudgeon66]

N Malcolm Sometimes serendipitous mistakes, if one does infact learn from them, are the best teachers. Thanks a million for watching and commenting, and if I have given you any small encouragement to do some weaving, then I will be quite happy. Would love to see some of your work one day.

[@Juanelo1946]

Andy, the washing machine did a really good job! I can't notice the fold in the middle. Considering this was an experiment, you did a masterful job on this piece!

[@curmudgeon66]

Juanelo1946 Thanks John. Yeah, the ol' washboard down by the stream really does make this come up to scratch pretty quickly.

[@luciedurocher3164]

I found that for the pleat it helps to actually remove one warp thread right from the middle after it comes off the loom. It makes it less noticeable.

[@WillowsGarden]

Ding, ding, ding Andy, my light bulb went off and I can understand the pattern! I am making progress, lol. The machine would be my downfall, but I would give it a shot. I have taken the pattern you sent me and the towel to see if I could match up the weaving, lol. This was an excellent demo Andy, thanks and tell Judi hello, big hugs to y'all, xxx

[@curmudgeon66]

Willows Garden Hey Pam ! I'm really glad that in some little way I am able to help someone who is not familiar with this particular skill to come to an understanding of what is involved in making a piece of cloth. Just think what a sorry state of affairs we would all be in if there were no cloth. Ugh :( Judi is sleeping this early in the morning - but I will pass on the huggs when she wakes up.

[@WillowsGarden]

Thanks again Andy, I would have never known any of this if it wasn't for you and your channel. Have a wonderful weekend, :)

[@barbararickman8543]

WOW! Good job Andy, I have not been online much as I have had to learn some thing on my own loom. Have had 2 failed warps so far but I am not deterred. It is a curve to learn to weave by one's self but that is okay. I will be patient with me just as you are. Let's continue to learn and make what we see in our mind of ideas. Weave on my friend...weave on! bjr

[@curmudgeon66]

Barbara Rickman Don't feel like the lone stranger with troublesome warps, I am currently trying to wind on a warp for a set of dish towels, and I have had more damn tangles and broken threads in this warp than in any other in recent memory. It's going very slow and I'm not a particularly happy camper today because of this. But I will persist, and eventually get this project to work out.

[@SwampDonkey2010]

Another technique to try on the fold is to use a slippery yarn or fish line that is removed after the weave. Put the removable yarn on an adjacent heddle to one that will stay in the cloth. That way it doesn't change the weave when removed and the cloth isn't as dense at the edge. Space them in the reed as normal, like for instance if your sett uses 2 per dent, don't put a single or three in a dent. I would use 1 removable per layer. I've done this with Harrisville where my sett was 32 epi for a plaid tartan blanket because of doubleweave. It works, not perfect, but close. I don't think you would doubleweave for a tablecloth, but a blanket is fine. Just be careful of errors and skips. The skips can bind the top layer with the bottom. ;) Another technique I used was more noticeable, where I opened the sett at the fold using a heavier wool that was sett at 16 epi for doubleweave, but 8 epi at the fold. I thought the adjacent yarns would crowd more toward the more open sett. But not, wool likes to cling and hold like burdock. :)

[@curmudgeon66]

SwampDonkey2010 Thanks SD, I think I like the fishing line idea. I will remember that when I get to doing the full blanket that I have planned. Which, like this prototype, will be Harrisville Designs Shetland weight for the tabby and Highland weight for the pattern weft. But first I have another towel project that I want to get out of the way fairly quickly, and I need to order the wool yarn, I was just using leftovers on this project because it was not very big.

[@meehan302]

Very Intricket Patterns, but you know what you are doing. Thanks for sharing

[@curmudgeon66]

Patrick Meehan quite welcome Patrick.

[@barbararickman8543]

Did get the now 3rd warp on the loom and...we shall see. I did notice that all this unexpected practice is paying off in time. I got the replacement warp from yesterday done in half the time it took me the first time. I will take pictures once I actually get this on the loom the right way!! bjr

[@SwampDonkey2010]

I know it didn't weave as you intended, but you may also consider doing what you think was a mistake in the future, but have it desirable. You might weave a tube for instance with the idea of a pillow case in mind, close one end, zipper the other. But...if you do something like overshot, you may want the weft pattern on one side and perhaps the halftone and background on the back of the pillow. I did this one time for a couple pillows. So, even though it wasn't woven the way you wanted this time, next time it may not be wrong at all. Although, my confession here is I didn't weave the ground at all. hahah!! I followed a draft as literal from an old text with overshot drafts in it, but without reading the full text about the weave, I missed the mention of tabby. ;) Those pillows are still used here and no one is the wiser. Fun video, keep'm coming. :) Currently, I'm working on a coverlet, I have the warp on, I'm threading about 1500 heddles for two panels that will be stitched together up the middle after they are woven. 32 epi sett with 10/2 cotton, 32 ppi, very light beat. wool singles pattern weft 1680 yrds/lb. Keep busy, happy weaving.

[@curmudgeon66]

SwampDonkey2010 WoW! 1500 heddles! and 32 epi sett! those two statistics alone boggle my curmudgeonly mind. You are, of course, right that I may want to try some of these things in the future as planned rather than as mistakes. This piece, although small, did exactly what I wanted, it helped me get my brain wrapped around the technique that I will need to follow when I do a bigger piece on my other loom using double weave to achieve double width. I know that when I first started weaving, and had only 2 books, one of them was Margarette Davidson's and I didn't understand what she meant by "use tabby", I too tried to follow the pattern as I THOUGHT it was written, what a mess. Hey - thank you very much for watching and commenting on my video.

[@leftylibra6425]

I loved this project and will be trying it out for a birthday gift. Only what are the dimensions? How wide, how long and at what point do you start to join the two sides? Please answer, it will make my project so much easier to make.

[@barbararickman8543]

Hi Andy, I forgot to ask. Is there any way a threading cross can be recovered once the lease sticks fall out? That is what happened to my 2nd warp. Lost the makeshift lease sticks and ended up cutting the warp off the loom as I was unable to recover the threading crosses. bjr

[@karenmornes4891]

Reversing the order for the bottom

[@mozartpaiva1]

Got it!

[@mariepedrigalnilusleclerc36]

Good jobs curmudgeon66!