I've gave myself a couple of parameters to work with:
- rag rug with t-shirt yarn (because old t-shirts are readily available for rags)
- crackle structure (which I'm still fascinated with)
- something reminiscent of stained glass (because of our bathroom window)
And of course. it will be a small size rug because of the size of my table
loom. But I have a small size bathroom, so no problem.
After weeks of looking at so many ideas that I've lost track, I finally
settled on a pattern from Mary Meigs Atwater's
Recipe Book: Patterns for Handweavers. This is a collection of weaving
patterns from her many years as editor of Shuttle-Craft Bulletin.
The Recipe Book was out of print for many years, but has been
made available on a thumb drive in PDF format by the
Mary Meigs Atwater Weavers Guild. It's very reasonably priced ($20) and includes extras such as fabric photos
and wif files. The guild also hosts copies of the original Shuttle-Craft
Bulletins, available as free PDF downloads
here.
The rug I'm interested in is from the Recipe Book, Series II No.
4.
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| "Recipe for a rug. A pattern in crackle-weave." |
The yarns:
The threading (read right to left):
The tie-up:
The treadling:
Besides liking the look of it, I was happy to see that rags are mentioned
as a possibility for pattern weft. So I know it will work with t-shirt yarn. I also found it interesting that the tabby is the same
as the pattern weft. She talks about doubling the
pattern weft for a heavy rug, and it's got me wondering how to handle my
t-shirt rags. Maybe make some for pattern that are wider than the ones to use for tabby? More decisions. But at least I'm getting closer to getting started.
Bathroom Rag Rug: Planning © March 2024
by Leigh at Leigh's Fiber Journal
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