Showing posts with label 8H Crepe Weave. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 8H Crepe Weave. Show all posts

Thursday, October 3, 2019

Crepe Closer 4

Here it is October already. The year is rapidly fading. And this is the last group of photos from my Strickler crepe weave sampler, but it won’t be my last adventure with crepe. It is plain to see that crepe would make especially fine clothing.


Strickler # 41
I chose this one for my study group swatch exchange. It seemed the "crepe-iest". 


Strickler #42


Strickler #43 (Oelsner #826)
I admit it, this is one of my favorites.


Strickler #44


Strickler #45


Strickler #46
Another of my favorites

With weaving there is always more to learn and experience. My guess is one could never exhaust the possibilities. Isn't that the beauty of it all?

One last photo shows the swatches I shared with my study group. It was tough to whittle it down to one of the 24 options from my sampler. In the end I chose #41 because it seemed to be the “crepe-iest” crepe in the lot.

Strickler #41
Study Group swatches show rust colored weft on the left and weft same as warp on the right.

Where to go next? How about taking a quick step back into waffle weave? We'll see.

Warp On/Weave Off,

RepWeaver

Monday, September 9, 2019

Crepe Closer 2

A "Box of Chocolates" approach is my thing for sure. Variety definitely appeals to me. Weaving samplers is right up my alley.

Here are the next six 8H Crepe weaves from Strickler. On the first one you will see the number under which it appears in Oelsner.


8H Crepe Weave #29 from Strickler (Also in A Handbook of Weaves by G.H. Oelsner, #803)


8H Crepe Weave #30 from Stickler


8H Crepe Weave #31 from Stickler
Note: The threading in this draft puzzled me. I decided to change it
to treadle as a straight 8 which is what you see here.
It's impossible to tell from the black & white photo in the book which is correct.


8H Crepe Weave #32 from Stickler


8H Crepe #33 from Stickler 


8H Crepe #34 from Stickler
I have still more swatches to show. Watch for the next post and keep weaving.

Warp On/Weave Off,

RepWeaver