Weekly 2

Aspen Kimlicko

This week I got to use the cricket loom to practice some different techniques with the tabby weave. I tried integrating purposeful holes in the weaving, then weaving with two colors on the same shuttle, and finally pulling string out with a fork to create texture.

Holes

Inspired by examples in class about integrating button holes or access holes into the weaving, I tried making a small hole, then a larger hole I could fit a pencil into, then I tried weaving only on the edges for an inch and weaving over it to make a large hole with weft threads showing. I had a hard time making the holes neat, but I can see these being really useful for integrating different wires and parts through the holes. The biggest hole could be useful if there was something under it that needed to be seen, or interacted with, or a new yarn could be woven in the hole to add texture or a type of pattern.

Double Color Weave

I wanted to see how much faster a section of weave would go if I combined colors, and how clean the colors would look together. It went much faster than I expected, with a fairly tight weave. I don't like how inconsistent the coloring is. I wish that it would be one color on top of the other in neat stripes, but I think this would only work if I did the longer version of this with two shuttles.

Pulled Texture

Inspired by the suggestions in the assignment that I didn't understand (floating something over the top?), I used a fork to pull parts of the yarn out before I beat it against the weaving. I tried with three differnt combinations of colors, first the main color, then a separate color, then both colors together. I think they all turned out very interesing, if a little messy. I think in terms of usefulness this could be a fun way to get a lot of contact with conductive filament, like with steel wool. This texture also reminds me of how velcro works, and I wonder what it would be like to integrate hooks into a different weave.

Weaving is time consuming! All of this took me around 3 hours, and that was even with a very quick double-color weave. However, I had a lot of fun with it. I love the texture of my last section, and I can imagine a lot of uses for that texture and for the holes in my first texture. I am still surprised both by how long the entire assignment took and by how quick the double-color weave was. I'm not sure what took me so long, but using the loom was much easier than using the book loom. The texture weave took a while because I had to pull yarn out of the weave with a fork, and I was surprised how hard it was to do so. The friction between tensioned yarn is very strong.

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