Fun stuff

I'm off to go to a concert of 14th century music by Ensemble Fortuna, which I'm looking forward to. It takes a while to get there on the train, so I'm taking Anne Hagens book on Anglo Saxon food with me to start preparing for our Anglo Saxon feast at the beginning of next year.

Tabletweaving

I'm learning double face tabletweaving, and am working out plans to make garters. In the pictures are the front and back view of the design.

I put the design in Guntram's Tabletweaving Thingy, which was surprisingly easy!

I'm using DMC Petra cotton no. 5. The band will be 14 tablets wide. Each garter will be made up as follows:

3 cm solid color for attaching the buckle

2 cm solid before the design starts

a set of 3 leaves

2 x 2 picks solid

1 castle

2 x 2 picks solid

a set of 3 leaves

solid color until the total length of the garter is 71 cm

I've calculated the length of the warp for weaving 4 garters at a time, since that lenght will hopefully be managable to set up.

4 x 71 = 284

20 % loss = 57

50 cm

Total lenght 391 cm

Hm, the total length on the sheet I worked it out on comes to 4.40 m, why?

We've decided to switch the weft color, to see the effect and to mark the beginning and end of each garter. If one color weft looks much better than the other we might change our minds about this.