Complex Weavers

This month's showcase

Bali H'ai

In August, we showcase Pat Foster's "Bali H'ai". Click on the picture to see a larger version. She did this sample for the Fine Threads Study Group She writes (in the Complex Weavers Journal, # 93, June 2010, page 10):

"In 2008, the UK Association of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers held its biennial exhibition and one exhibit class was "An Item Mounted in a CD Case and Inspired By A Song." ... I ended up with not an operatic aria but with six entries based on South Pacifc. They were woven of 60/2 silk on a 32-shaft computer-controlled Megado loom. Because 60/2 cloth is quite fine and has little body, I designed double-stitched cloth which allows the fine detail of a 60/2 cloth but is much sturdier. The final cloth was 90 epi, 45 epi in each cloth. The front cloth was warped up as point twill on shafts 5 to 32 and the back cloth as a straight four-shaft twill on shafts one to four. The width was six inches. I painted the warp on the loom using Seka silk paints and, almost always, the front and back cloths were painted quite different colours.

"...The lace flowers on "Bali H'ai" are Honington lace made by noted lace maker Kathleen Harris, and are attached to the fabric with a few stitches in the center of each flower.

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Used by permission.
This is the ninety-ninth item in our showcase of what members are doing.

Watch this space - something else will be here around the first week of September, 2010.
To see the items previously showcased, click Showcase