A little bit about Shadow Weave

When you have a pay check job, you have a schedule and everyone expects you to be working during those hours.  They don't ask for favors, and the phone doesn't ring constantly asking who you are going to vote for, or to buy something.  You just have a set amount of hours to work with out interruption.  Must be nice.  Well maybe not, but I do get frustrated trying to work.

This week I did get some dying done, but I did not get any pictures. My daughter got married, I did get pictures of that.  My grand-daughter  loved her costume makes everything worth while.

 
The  piece I have on the loom is almost done.  Mostly I have been trying to draft a shadow weave to put on the loom.  I have been reading Powell's 1000 Shadow weave patterns.  She designs shadow weave differently than Atwater.  Powell uses blocks.  Which might be easier than Van der Hoot's design two twills and combine to make a shadow weave draft.

For those who are not familiar  with Shadow weave, it is primarily a color and weave that creates the pattern.  The structure is close to a plain weave, except that it has a few, two and three thread floats. The pattern is created by alternating a dark thread with a light thread in both the warp and the weft.  You need at least four shafts to weave Shadow weave.

Powell's blocks for a four shaft loom are A-(1,2) B-(3,4) C-(2,1) and D-(4,3)  In her blocks, 1 & 3 are the primaries (Dark), and 2 & 4 and the Shadows (Light).

I did not finish my draft.  I am hoping that I do not have any interruptions tomorrow and can get some real work done.  I think I need a new keyboard.  This one is old and I am banging on the keys to get them to work and I have to keep going back to correct missing letters sometimes banging on the same key multiple times.  Any way I am tired and going to bed

Pam