watervole | (no subject)

My first attempt at tablet weaving. It's a versatile technique in which you use cards (squared off old playing cards work fine) with a hole punched in each corner to take a warp thread. The cards are stacked like a deck. Turn the deck on it's edge, with another edges facing towards you. There's a shed (space for the shuttle) created between the wool coming from the different holes. Top holes and bottom holes.

If you rotate the deck of cards, different coloured warp threads come to the top of the weaving. you can create a four element pattern that can be repeated easily either forwards or backwards. I chose a chevron which could also be built into crosses or diamonds.

The direction you thread the wool, either right to left or left to right, has quite an impact on how the pattern finally looks, but that's getting a bit complicated for a basic explanation.

Threaded | Flat

Ooh I remember my first discovery of tablet weaving - I found it so exciting and compulsive. I had to be forcibly restrained from weaving all night. What fun!

Your chevrons are very fine. How cool to make something which could be used and admired, your first time.

What made you take it up, and how are you learning?