In my continuing series, Questions From The Book, I’m answering questions that come from readers of my newest book, The Art of Tapestry Weaving.
I have spent some time playing with a tapestry technique called pick and pick lately. This technique is a powerful one in the tapestry toolbox because it allows stripes to climb up the warp.
Weaving is the creation of cloth on a gridded structure created by the warp and weft. In tapestry, making horizontal lines in the direction of the weft traveling from side to side across the warp is easy. Making lines that travel in the same direction of the warp is more difficult.* Pick and pick is a fun technique because we get to play with creating forms and color effects in the warp-wise direction.
The video below demonstrates weaving pick and pick and I give a few tips for making things work out neatly and for catching mistakes. The two Change the Shed episodes I refer to in the video are HERE and HERE.
I have three samples going here on three Mirrix Saffron looms. I only used three colors for these tapestries (plus white in one of them) and it was fun to see the different effects that could be achieved with just three colors (blue, red-violet, and pink).
Tapestry weaving: pick and pick (also called half-pass). Weaving demonstrations done on Mirrix Saffron looms.
Tapestry weaving in pick and pick. Nothing like weaving on the deck. Spring in Colorado!
*See my online course, Warp and Weft: Learning the Structure of Tapestry for more!
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