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2005 Handspun Linen Yardage - Plain Weave

Woven for painter to use as canvas for oil paintings in the style of the Old Masters

Coarse handspun set at 24 epi - woven with the back beam on the countermarche loom raised and the weft linen damp to insure maximum beat. Fabric slightly warp dominant - gives the fabric stability off loom.

This cloth will later be stretched on a wood frame and sized before painting.

 

Closeups of canvas after wet finishing and mangling.

Artists comment upon delivery "Its almost too pretty to paint on, but I'm an artist - I'll get over it". Am now working on 45" wide canvas from commercial linen for the same painter.

2003 - Storage bags for bolts of handwoven fabric, woven of pure linen in Opphämta technique using pickup and long eye heddles. Woven on loom destined to become drawloom while waiting for the drawbridge and extension.

2003 entry for the Wisconsin Handweavers Fall Show - Silk Yardage

received 1st place award - intended for making an evening jacket to
be worn with black silk blouse and long skirt.
Uses the same technique of turned twill used in the placemats below - just
using more colorful threads.
Custom dyed bombyx silk.




The warp, before weaving.
The custom dyed colors have been lovely to work with.














Here is the finished jacket, June 2004, at a wedding in Atlanta - showing how the pattern, planned and
woven into the fabric translated into the jacket pieces when finished. The scarf was planned to
utilize the excess width from the back pieces - the fronts have a folded front facing, so planned the
patterning to create a narrow scarf the length of the 2 back sections.


A new variation on turned twill. Looks for all the world like damask.
Allows for floating pattern elements with just 8 shafts.
Cotton warps, Linen and/or cotton weft.
Placemats                                                                    Pillows


























3-SHAFT DAMASK - PIECE DONE IN A WORKSHOP WITH ERICA DE RUITER





TRANSPARENCIES

Fun to experiment with. Poppies was the first of a series.
Dryspun linen singles for background.
Wool for design.






















CLASSIC KITCHENWARE - RED, WHITE AND BLUE
Cotton warp - Linen weft - absorbant and pleasant to the touch.
Red and White Fabric - plain weave with Monk's Belt accents
Pictured here, a breadcloth. Also used for towels and adult bibs.
                                                                                    Blue and white towels - classic goose-eye
                                                                                    twill.





PRIZE WINNING LINEN TABLECLOTH
This fabric won a 1st place at the Wisconsin Handweavers Fall Show in 2000 as yardage.
This year, 2001, entered as "Sunday at Oma's",  it was awarded the Handwoven Award for Textiles for the Home.
"Christened" for Christmas 2001 - at my Mother's home together with the green holiday napkins woven last year.

Linen Fabric - Used here for Tablecloth
16/1 commercial linen with slubby texture, tabby, 40 epi
27" wide, sewn together with hand-crocheted lace.
Additional yardage to be used for a blouse, possibly some dinner napkins and general
 sewing.
At the Charles Allis Show with Award                     In service at "Grandma's House"

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Last Updated 19-Feb-2007

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