MAFA2025-3933
Description
| Weaver | Deborah A Lawson |
|---|---|
| Source | Original design |
| Yarn | Warp: 8/2 mercerized cotton. Ground weft - cotton slub, approx. 8/2 size. Supplemental wefts handspun wool, rayon boucle, 3/2 cotton, rug wool |
| EPI | 24 |
| Purpose | table runner/center |
| Guild | Central PA Guild of Handweavers,Weaver's Roundtable |
|---|---|
| Collection | MAFA 2025 Functional Textiles |
| # Shafts | 4 |
| Weave Name | Beiderwand |
| Weave Category | Plain Compound weaves |
Weaver Notes
The piece is woven using Deborah Silver’s split-shed technique. I hand-drew the cartoon for the pickup oatterning.
I warped my table loom with enough for two runners. The first I cut off and used for a weaving guild challenge. This is the completed one shown in the photos. This photo is not great because it wasn’t taken for the purpose of exhibition entry. I gave this one away as part of the challenge/exchange. The one to be submitted is underway but not quite finished. (I need to finish it before MAFA because this is on my table loom and I will need the loom for a workshop.) One of the photos shows it as it is currently on the loom.
Finishing was a bit of a challenge. I steamed it rather than immersing it in water because I wasn’t sure how all of the different fibers would react. It shrank quite a bit. The photos don’t show it clearly but the wool portions fluffed up and created a nice dimensional effect.
The draft shows the structure without patterning.
