I was approached and accepted a new protege. I mulled over a belt. Leather? Fabric? Should it have my arms? The reipient wanted it to reflect me, but I wanted it to go with most of her garb (my persona is 200BC so it probable would’ve just been a strip of fabric or a tattoo).
So what could I do with one color? I started perusing my pattern books, but there’s not a lot of good monohrome patterns. I considered trying missed hole, but I didn’t want to hate myself and have no time to work on my daughter’s dress. Then I found an alternate pattern that looked like knitting. I saw that when you reversed to get the twist out, you get this neat shot of color. Now i needed a second color. My arms have green and purple - both not really a great idea. The blue I had was a different thickness, but the black looked smart. So I did one black and one green as a nod to her Laurel and used a black weft.
The pattern is available on pages 60-61 of “Card Weaving” by Candace Crockett. I used Schachenmayer Baby Smiles cotton color 1022 (yellow), Aunt Lydia’s Fashion 3 in black, and Aunt Lydia’s Classic 10 cotton in Forest Green. The hardware was purchased from Raymond’s Quiet Press and is a Y-71Y03 12th Century belt set with floral pattern. I used 20 cards because it could only be 1” wide to accomodate the hardware. I wove until it was 69” then folded the ends over to sew them under. The finished belt is 67-1/4’ tip to tip.
So what could I do with one color? I started perusing my pattern books, but there’s not a lot of good monohrome patterns. I considered trying missed hole, but I didn’t want to hate myself and have no time to work on my daughter’s dress. Then I found an alternate pattern that looked like knitting. I saw that when you reversed to get the twist out, you get this neat shot of color. Now i needed a second color. My arms have green and purple - both not really a great idea. The blue I had was a different thickness, but the black looked smart. So I did one black and one green as a nod to her Laurel and used a black weft.
The pattern is available on pages 60-61 of “Card Weaving” by Candace Crockett. I used Schachenmayer Baby Smiles cotton color 1022 (yellow), Aunt Lydia’s Fashion 3 in black, and Aunt Lydia’s Classic 10 cotton in Forest Green. The hardware was purchased from Raymond’s Quiet Press and is a Y-71Y03 12th Century belt set with floral pattern. I used 20 cards because it could only be 1” wide to accomodate the hardware. I wove until it was 69” then folded the ends over to sew them under. The finished belt is 67-1/4’ tip to tip.
The twist from 1 set (7 sets of Vs)
The cool floats created by reversing direction.
Changing the weft thread
The finished belt
The finished belt
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