New Warp

My new warp has now been dyed and is back on the warping frame.  I hope to get it onto my loom tomorrow.  It is looking pretty, the colours travel from a pale yellow, to mix with pink creating coral and through to a bright pink.

 

I enjoyed a trip into Leeds last week, I wanted to go to the library to see what weaving books they had, not many I found out, but still worth a look in the Art Library, I always find something interesting.  It's a lovely building too.

 

There was a display of antique butterfly and moth encyclopedias with their illustrated plates.

The building is linked to Leeds Museum, although I didn't have a look around, I did manage to get into the gift shop.  I really like this illustration from Ohhdeer.com, which was on the cover of a notebook, it's fun and I am always drawn to anything to do with animals.  The face and eyes are so lifelike, but the feathered headdress shows that it has clearly been painted, I like this mix of realistic and playful, creative art.

First warp finished!

I've had a busy time over the last week or so, I intended to finish this warp as quickly as I could.  I wanted to see how the threads would work, and what types of items the cloth would be suitable for.

It has created a really delicate cloth, with a lovely drape, and I am really pleased with the way the dyes have worked on the warp.  I intend to carry on experimenting with this dyeing technique to see what other results I can achieve.  It was interesting overdyeing the yarn as this means the yarn is all colour, so even areas I did not apply dye to are still a pale yellow, as was the original colour of the yarn.

I'm preparing my second warp, and including lots of ties so that it doesn't get tangled after it has been dyed.  The first warp I made I tied after every 50 ends, which probably wasn't enough really.  This time I'm doing it after every 20 ends. 

We'll see how it goes.