Change the Shed Episodes March 27, 2020 through April 17, 2020
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Episode Groups
Group 1: March 27, 2020 through April 17, 2020
Group 2: April 20, 2020 through May 27, 2020
Group 3: June through September, 2020
Group 4: October through December, 2020
Group 5: January through June, 2021
Group 6: July through December, 2021
Group 7: January through June, 2022
Group 8: July through December, 2022
Group 9: January through June, 2023
Group 10: July through December, 2023
Group 11: January through December, 2024
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Friday, March 27, 2020 is HERE. In this first live episode, I’m working on a piece called Hot Flash. This is a double sett piece: 8 and 16 epi.
Saturday, March 28, 2020 is HERE. Working on Hot Flash, the double sett piece. Some discussion about cartoon use.
Sunday, March 29, 2020 is HERE. Wove on Hot Flash. Talked about the open shed rod, shifting the shed, using two weights of weft.
Monday, March 30, 2020 is HERE. I started with the story about the silver house. (Building a house is easier than learning tapestry as one student said to me once.) Worked on a Fringeless four-selvedge tapestry on a copper pipe loom. The Steady tapestry.
Tuesday, March 31, 2020 is HERE. Working on the Steady tapestry on the copper pipe loom. Some close ups of picking the shed. Talked some about the way people are doing four selvedge weaving on the Mirrix Saffron loom versus the Fringeless method I’m using this piece where you have a shed for the whole weaving.
Wednesday, April 1, 2020 is HERE. I worked on a small piece on the Mirrix Saffron loom using shaped pick and pick.
Thursday, April 2, 2020 is HERE. I worked on the small shaped pick and pick piece on the Mirrix Saffron loom. A cliff notes discussion of weaving from the front versus the back (I have since written a blog post about this). I talked a little about how I was going to finish that particular piece.
Friday, April 3, 2020 is HERE. Weaving on the Hot Flash tapestry with two setts.
Monday, April 6, 2020 is HERE. The story about the Disney Princess tapestry for the cover of my book, The Art of Tapestry Weaving. I also worked on the Steady piece on a small copper pipe loom. I also gave a slow motion demonstration of picking the shed on this kind of loom.
Tuesday, April 7, 2020 is HERE. Working on the end of the Steady tapestry on a copper pipe loom. Working a little scalloped design at the edge.
Wednesday, April 8, 2020 is HERE. I finished off the end of the Steady tapestry on a copper pipe loom. The Fringeless process ends with a special treatment so that the piece comes off the loom without any need for hems or selvedges. I talk about the difference between kinds of four selvedge tapestry weaving.
Thursday, April 9, 2020 is HERE. I showed the Steady tapestry off the loom though the finishing isn’t complete. I talked some about the finishing process and showed how to needle in some of the ends. Warping a small Handywoman loom.
Friday, April 10, 2020 is HERE. Working on the Handywoman loom piece. I finished the twining to space the warp and put in a double half hitch header. Started weaving one of the Windows pieces with handspun. Talked more about tapestry forks and the space between the tines (tines per inch).
Monday, April 13, 2020 is HERE. Weaving on the Windows piece on the Handywoman loom with handspun yarn. Talked some about how colors happen in handspun and showed the yarn versus the dyed roving.
Tuesday, April 14, 2020 is HERE. I wove on the Windows piece on the Handywoman loom with handspun yarn.
Wednesday, April 15, 2020 is HERE. Weaving on the Mirrix Saffron on the tapestry with shaped pick and pick. I talked a little more about this loom also.
Thursday, April 16, 2020 is HERE. Weaving a new piece on a copper pipe loom. This was a test of a new tapestry yarn. Also using EPiC yarn. This will be the Listen tapestry eventually.
Friday, April 17, 2020 is HERE. Weaving on the Mirrix Saffron loom on a pick and pick piece.
Resources mentioned in these episodes
PETER COLLINGWOOD BOOK
I have mentioned the Peter Collingwood book, Techniques of Rug Weaving numerous times. You can get used copies fairly easily or the whole book is available for free as a PDF. It seems that maybe it is broken up into multiple files. The book is over 500 pages long.
““Rebecca, I wanted to let you know that there are 5 parts to the Peter Collingwood book – if you use that first link and just change the last # in sequence in the URL bar on your browser, you can easily download all the parts. Hope this helps someone… Thanks for Change the Shed – it makes my day, no matter when I catch up to watch it!”
I found it here on handweaving.net in a way that is easy too visualize. This site is free, but consider a donation! https://www.handweaving.net/document-detail/1961/the-techniques-of-rug-weaving-collingwood-peter-waton-guptill
The link I had in the broadcast was https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/cp_rug1_1.pdf which is what Ruth Ellen is referring to.
USE OF SHARPIES TO MARK THE WARP
Trish had this great advice about Sharpie use:
“In terms of the Sharpie pens, I use a regular permanent Sharpie BUT I use a yellow one in very light areas and then usually a grey in the darker areas. I rarely use a black one.”
Trish also says:
“I just watched the April 8 issue. Many, many years ago I took a college-level photography course and one of the things the instructor said is that all professional photographers will make 10,000 mistakes. Our job is to just get on with it and make them so we can learn from them and stop making them in the future. It is great advice for the perfectionists of us who fear the mistakes. Just get on with the 10,000 and then GIVE IT A REST. And one of 10,000 is hardly anything at all in the great scheme of things.”
Great advice, right?
ARTIST EASELS FOR LOOMS
Lynda says:
“I have been watching your ‘Change the Shed’ YouTube videos. I look at it later in the day…so can’t comment. I wanted to tell you of a couple of box, table top, easels that I found (and purchased one awhile back) at Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff. One is by American Journey and the other is Cheap Joe’s brand. They run around $90.00 and $76.00 consecutively. Hope this helps!
Look forward to watching you weave, I am actually knitting, at this time, but it is informational, conversational, and a joy I look forward to every day.”