Weaving Song

Today was a beautiful North Carolina day, cool breezes, cloudless sky and sunshine.  Too beautiful to be inside weaving or doing chores.  A perfect day to fire up the indigo pot.  I purchased a huge lot of rug yarn on Ravelry with the intent to play with some natural dyes. Nice natural wool I also had some tapestry yarns in white, gray, yellow and a funky green. The first two skeins are wrapped with plastic for an experiment in space dyeing. I am pleased with the variety of greens and blues I achieved. Fresh from the vat. Not a total success, there was some bleeding under the plastic. Ready to sample.  The intervals of wrapping were varied, more blue on the right. Interesting striping in this sample wedge. I am currently working on a design for my second wedge weave.  Deciding on the dimension is giving me pause right now.  I am more comfortable with the small format but want to go big.

What I love about tapestry is the ability to put a thought, a feeling, an idea or the essence of something into a tangible and tactile (and yes, even textile) form.  I wanted to capture my week at Peters Valley in my first wedge weave. The lushness of the vegetation, the rustic rambling nature of the buildings and the green, verdant nature of the place.   How Green is My Valley This tape stry was woven at 10 ends per inch on my Cactus Flower loom.  The warp is wool and the weft is also a two ply wool I hand dyed last year. These are my wedge weave class samples from the week at Peters Valley with  Connie Lippert .  I am loving wedge weave.  In the above samples I tried some different appproaches, mixing the wedges with plain weave and eccentric weave to see what would happen. In How Green is My Valley I followed the diagonal path of traditional wedge weave.  You can see I am weaving diagonal stripes distorting the vertical orientation of the warp threa...