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des if you look carefully they each equal about a third of the width and or length of the circle then look again the next step over will be about one sixth of the flat area the steps become smaller as you move over and up at about one half the the climb of the first quarter of the pie you start to duplicate in reverse the sizes of the stair steps of the climb until you are matching in the rise the size of the beginning stair steps the last stair step before the side flat area on each side is 1 3 of the the bottom and side flat areas the two bottom sides of the circle are identical each of the 4 pieces of the pie will be woven in the same way with the s ame number of stair steps and overs the possible exception that one passes d oes not always equal another pass in a turn if you turn on a hollow thread it will take more passes to equal those then turns on a full thread hollow or valley thread and full and hill are often used interchangeably when describing this phenomena the top half of the circle is usually woven about 5 percent higher so that as the circle is beaten on and over it doesn t squish the circle into an oval in a perfect world a circle would always have an uneven number of warps but the world isn t perfect so just remember it might take an extra pass occasional on a hollow or valley thread now that you have a fairly good idea of what makes a circle works it s time to weave the circle so to begin it s always a good idea to ink the circle on the warp ink at the last minute with the types of warping processes that most of us are using if you ink to soon the ink circle can become distorted as the warps shift and turn in the weaving process so keep the cartoon close or make a template that you can check the circle against also there are right ways and not so good ways to ink you always want the finest line possible and the ink to go all away around the warp use a very sharp pen hold only the very tip against the warp and turn the warp in your other fingers to get the ink around the warp do not use a juicy pen as the ink and wick up or down the warp use only tested water proof markers to begin to weave weave the base half way up each side of the circle and stop make sure that you use the same pattern of turns and stair steps on both sides if you change the number of passes using fewer or more the circle will no longer be round now you have a couple of decisions to make especially if you don t like stair steps or teeth in your circles you can choose to split the weft or use soumack to smooth everything out i generally use soumack my soumack weft is usually one half of the weaving weft bundle because i don t like ridges on my tapestry you ca n choose the weft to be in the colour of the base colour or the colour of the circle if need be to continue the coloured soumack weft one can lace up the sides of the slits but one can only soumack so far up the sides and across the bottom before the distance the soumack weft travels across the warps and up begins to look loopy at this point i stop the soumack and then pay attention to full threads and hollow threads as i weave i often jump up with the weft turns to pull off the tooth i weave the first half of the circle to end the circle or do the last half one weaves the inner circle in the same way or reverse the stair steps but it is the same pattern of climbs that i began with the first half of the circle i will also weave the circle slightly taller about 5 percent above the cartoon to take into account the squish factor i then outline the circle in soumack and fill in the out side bases of the circle paying attention to the hollow and full threads as i ascend up the sides and over the circle once the soumack happens at the top it will round the circle and get rid of any teeth or stair steps a couple of things to be aware of as you weave and beat the bottom part of the circle it will have a tendency to widen out while the top of the circle will have a tendency to pull the warps in once you reach the top half of the circle you no longer have the base or out side to follow you will be dependent on the cartoon and inking to keep the circle round don t stop checking the circle trust your eye rather then your markings which can shift and stretch as the warp relaxes from being worked generally weave slightly over the the inking the other thing this is not a good time to tighten or mess with the tension of the loom begin with the tension being tight the other thing to remember is that circles have a tendency to loose height when the tension is taken off of the weaving so compensate accordingly remember that circles do have a tendency to pull in as the top half is woven watch for consistency in the bubble of the weft while you are weaving use more weft if it starts to pull in less weft in the bubble in the areas next to the area that is pulling in a major error that i see all the time is as it begins to pull in the weaver suddenly begins to use way to much weft in the pulled in area and they get vertical ridging if this happens use less weft in the weft bundle and more in the areas next to the pulled in area to it will correct easily those vertical ridges will not go away with ironing etc and if you can get them out they leave a blister or bubble in the tapestry weaving circle s is much more detailed in my book tapestry 101 in my tapestry 101 book i actually describe several other methods for weaving circles without stair steps and teeth there are also some weaving corrections for making circles rounder by using the inside or circle weft passes in different ways to force the circle to be more round the illustrations in this book were done by pat spark please do not abuse the copy right of these pictures guess that s all for now kathe posted by unknown at 5 53 pm 2 comments labels rebecca metzoff soumack tapestry 101 tapestry circles village wools mountain weavers and spinners guild tuesday september 9 2014 my summer of reconstruction and other things this is about the 3 summer months that i decided to have a tune up this is also the last of the reconstruction on the house gale is busily painting the house and the studio and hanging the last 3 doors i have been spending a lot of time reorganizing the studio painting floors and reorganizing yarn storage and gifting my unused larger yarns to friends and students i will be done with that in the next day or so every so often one needs to have one or at least a time of reassessment this has been both for me cataract surgery on both eyes wrist hand surgery and a few other tweaks that should produce some lasting great results the cast are off i have 20 20 close up vision but will need glasses for distance i even get to start driving again on the 20th my colours back to what they should be no more grey staining the colours that i see i am now off insulin i am back to my better bones and balance i have added tai chi maybe depending on the nerve in my leg and the pps perhaps i have done enough reconstruction to make it work we ll see so all that said it s time to weave and write not that i ever quit just fewer walls to go up over and or around d i finished weaving my grandfathers piece yesterday except for the finishing i am not in a great hurry to finish them up as i am trying to come up with a new body of work for an exhibit i am have next june at etc in eugene or my next piece is started even as speak i am in the process of laying it out the drawings take time i can only use drawing utensils only so many hours at a time just like i haven t been able to use bobbins because of having worn the cast for so long these are my new best friend s as i try to reclaim the muscles in my hand and forearm that were forced to hibernate and atrophy from lack of use the nerves become less numb day by day and the hand stronger and less prone to shakes and charley horses 3 promises to keep an announcement that i hope everyone will consider and write for i think that it is really important that small format small scale tapestry weavers step up and make themselves known so i am looking for writers about small format small scale tapestry that can help to document the process of our being accepted as tapestry weavers in the tapestry world tapestry topics i am seeking articles for the american tapestry alliance tapestry topics small format small scale tapestry subversive destructive or deadline jan 15 2015 what is small format small scale tapestry is it tapestry or isn t it why are so many people weaving small format small scale at this particular time in the history of tapestry ideas to think about the history of small format small scale tapestry past present and the future what excites you about small format small scale tapestry what can the format do what can it not do what are the technical advantages or restrictions for this format coptic weaving k o ssu kesi 16th century lowland small format devotional tapestries exhibits of and about small format small scale past present and future if you plan on submitting an article please contact theme coordinator kathetoddhooker comcast net together as promised these two pieces together on my blog there s got to be a morning after part a and b which in away lead to this post card and exhibit and catalogue this was the tenth exhibit small format exhibit that sprang from the it s about time exhibit in 1996 in portland oregon this is a great catalogue and i think can be purchased from ata there is another coming up hope you all will start planning for the next one lessons learned about weaving with a cast no bobbins and placing the weft i have learned and reinforced a lot of information about weaving with and without bobbins i am not fond of the chaos created by not using bobbins even played with using butter flies to keep down some of the chaos never again butterflies are two fragile so the solution was to use fairly long weft bundles 18 24 inches and tie an overhand knot every6 8 inches biggest lesson was to make sure that there were no loops in the end of the tail below the last knot leaving them in always created a knotted chaos of caught threads every time i pulled the knot through the open shed i have gone back to using my smallest brassy bob s that are about 3 5 4 inches long at this point they are easy to hold in my hand leaving the point out just enough to use as another finger but i am still using long wefts at this point my hand tires too easily form putting the nob through the shed since i was unable to use the side tip of my bobbin to scrape the yarns in i used the tips of my fingernails to beat in the yarns my nails started loo king like some one had taken pinking shears to the tips oops i am dating myself does any one use pinking shears anymore my manicurist made a bundle applying gel nails as i wore down into the nails with the tight warps i was able to get about 2 weeks from each application and replacement of a gel nail after talking to my pt specialists i was able to come up with a solution they would damage my nail beds the japanese weavers have used this solution for hundreds of years most all of my instructors had told me never to use my finger nails to scrape or beat wefts into place because because the pressure of the beating could lift the nails from the nail bed or quick this is true if it s done wrong the mirrix spencer another new best friend one of the things that made weaving so much easier during this time was that i switched from my regular titter totter treadles to a a new spencer treadle it has a sort of neutral that holds the shed open until i step down and change the shed notice the difference in size between my old treadles and the new spencer which is under my foot not only does it take less effort the neutral that holds the shed open is really great so i purchased a second spencer it will be so much easier to travel with and pack i am not getting rid of my old treadles either the only draw back is that the spencer needs to be plugged in to electricity which sometimes isn t possible in some of the places i teach perhaps some one could design a battery pack or a a solar system for it pretty please the dire and deadly spring spread conquered i think that i have finally come up with an easy solution to what i call spring spread on my mirrix this is a problem that drives me nuts spring spread is what happens when the springs become older and start to fatigue one can go from weaving 22 epi to 18 as the spring spreads the problem with this is it can cause the tapestry ridges to spread and in some cases shrink it also makes it very difficult to control the edges of the tapestry note the bulges on the two side edges that i was constantly correcting so the correction for spring thread is easy i always twine when i begin a tapestry and tie a knot at the end at the exact width i want the tapestry to be and then space the warps accordingly so now i am just doing it at the top of the mirrix directly under the spring i larks head on to the first thread twine all the way across and tie the ending knot at the exact width of that spring should be or end please note that the loom is balanced up side down to do this makes it much easier if you look closely you can see my two twiners if i want to turn the warp around the loom then i just pull everything down and around i can the en beat the twining at the top back into place along the bottom of the spring channel solves the whole problem was spring spread guess this is enuff for now chene is trying to tell me something important and grabbing papers cheers and all kathe posted by unknown at 4 48 pm 4 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom search this blog followers bumper stickers for tapestry weavers contact kathetoddhooker comcast net shaped tapestry 2nd edition isbn 978 0 9753698 8 3 about me unknown view my complete profile blog ofbetweenandetc blog of fine fiber press fine fiber press and studio fine fiber press etsy site web site of pat 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