The particulars
- Pattern: Recipe for Dornik Herringbone for tweeds from Mary Meigs Atwater's Recipe Book, Series IV, No. 12.
- Draft:
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| Screenshots of the original pattern can be seen in this post. |
- Loom: Glimakra 8-shaft countermarch
- Yarn: 4-ply medium weight cotton
- Warp: Peaches & Creme in "Happy Go Lucky" (variegated)
- Weft: Sugar 'n Cream in sage green
- Ends: 352
- Sett: 8 e.p.i.
- P.P.I.: 15
- Width
- in reed: 43⅝ inches
- on loom: 39⅜ inches
- off loom: 39"
- wet finished: 35"
- Length
- on loom 71¾"
- off loom: 68" without fringe
- wet finished: 64" excluding fringe
- Fringe: twisted
Thoughts
- The draft was a good choice for a throw rug.
- The selvedges turned out well (always a concern).
- I chose the pattern from a photo of a sample. The tweedy look of it appealed to me.
- However, my variegated warp yarn delivered a different effect, which is neither right or wrong, just different from what I was thinking.
- For example, the long wavy stripe left of the rug center. Not planned, just the fate of how the warp was measured. It definitely catches the eye and becomes a design feature (planned or not!).
- Even so, I can live with it, and overall, I'm satisfied.
7 comments:
The variegated warp definitely shows up more from a distance, but it is a handsome rug!
Michelle, thank you! And isn't it often like that with our ideas? Thankfully, most of them work out anyway. :)
Lovely rug! And you know, even sampling would not have predicted that stripe from the variegated yarn. *sigh*
Valerie, thank you! Very true about sampling. But I think that's one of the delights of weaving - surprises everywhere.
Well done, you. Are you walking around it at this point, or stepping on it already? :-D
Looks spectacular Leigh!
Meg, lol! That's exactly the way it is, isn't it?
TB, thanks!
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