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March Showcase

Guess Where?

Guess where? - Edith House In March, our showcase features Edith House's "Guess Where?" Click on the thumbnail for a larger version. This month, as in last month, we showcase an 8-shaft work.

Edith won the Complex Weavers Award for this at the Williston, VT, USA Vermont Weavers Guild Annual Show

She writes: "A couple of years ago, I took a workshop taught by Laurie Autio, called "Weave Where You Live; Weaving From Topography". What a fascinating idea! I had been experimenting with four-end straight threading networks on my eight-shaft loom for a while. I found it difficult to come up with an interesting curve as a starting point for a threading. By making a graph of the differences in elevation on a section of a map, then deriving a curve from the graph, some "different" curves emerged. I started with a map of the area around my home, which is a bit hilly, came up with a curve which I digitized to eight units high, plotted the threading on the network and reversed it in the center. Threads used were 8/2 Tencel for weft and warp sett at 27 epi. The warp was threaded in an eight-shaft straight twill on a four-end network.

"Using a computer program, I began trying different tie- ups and treadlings. I found a tie-up that seemed to work well. I tried many treadlings. One of my criteria was that maximum float length be not more than three for either warp or weft. This led to a good deal of tweaking and adjustment to make sure that both sides of the cloth were checked for float length. I have woven many scarves on this threading, using twenty different treadlings and many colors, but this one, woven as drawn in, and using colors that might be found on a map, is one of my favorites."

Used by permission.
This is the one hundred-seventeenth item in our showcase of what members are doing.
For more information, see Edith House's article in the February, 2012 issue of Complex Weavers Journal, page 7. Watch this space - something else will be here around the first week of April, 2012.
To see the items previously showcased this year, click Showcase