MAFA2025-3876

MAFA2025-Textiles-3876

Weaver

Deborah Kaplan

Source

Original design

Yarn

10/2 mercerized cotton used 2 strands per end, 5/2 mercerized cotton - used 10 strands per pick, 20/2 mercerized cotton thin weft

EPI

80

Purpose

placemat

Guild

New York Guild of Handweavers

Collection

MAFA 2025 Functional Textiles

# of shafts

8

Weave Name

CordRibRipsmatta/Rep

Weave Category

Plain Simple

Weaver Notes

Based on the fall coloration of raspberry leaves.
Repp playing off inkle band design.

20 1/2 ” x 13″

514 working ends, so 1028 warp threads.

Each 10/2 end, despite working as double threads, was threaded separately to organize the color mixing in each 2 end weaving unit. The beat was 5 double picks/” on the loom, 4.5/” finished. I used relatively loose warp tension and beat hard with a shed stick in the upcoming shed. The thick weft was twisted at the selvedge. Thin wefts were treated as if for an inkle band, by leaving a weft loop, beating and then pulling the far side loopy weft snug against the selvedge.

Colors used: UKI navy & purple, purple passion, pacific blue, deep turquoise, Lunatic Fringe copper, kelp, forest, 5 red-purple

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