16 December 2009. It´s snowing! Yes, as you can see from the photo I´ve just taken of the view from my textile studio, the Ribeira Sacra looks stunning. It´s pretty cold though so it´s very appropriate I´m weaving warm wool scarves! I´m continuing the project I wrote about in earlier – see www.textilesnaturales.com/archives/1092 for the natural dyeing part. Now I´m onto weaving the woollen scarves. Below I´ve uploaded some photos so you can see the different stages of loom preparation. I´m using a Louet table loom for this project.
HOW TO PREPARE A LOOM FOR WEAVING
1. The yarns to be positioned on the loom are measured and wound on a warping mill
Winding the warp (yarn which goes on the loom)
- Winding
the warp onto the Louet loom using the raddle
3. Weaving a small sample piece. I always do this when using new yarns or trying out a new design. Sampling is fun and enables me to try out different colour combinations and yarns.
weaving the sample piece
HOW TO WEAVE
4. Weaving – The design requires using two colours so you can see I´m using two shuttles, changing from one to another at regular intervals throughout the design. This makes weaving slower but the design is far nicer as I can use more colours.
how to weave with 2 shuttles
5. The finished scarf.
woollen winter scarf
6. … and finally the scarf being worn by its new owner. This is Galician blogger, Martin Goetz, at the German-style Christmas Fair organised by him and his wife Barbara in Mer (Sober), Galicia. If you didn´t know about Martin´s blog or the christmas fair visit …. www.lifeingalicia.com
martin wearing the scarf
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Hi Anna, just paying my first visit to your new blog. I love all your sumptuous yarn photos and the natural colours. Martin is very lucky in his new scarf.
Hope you have a lovely Christmas and a happy Hogmanay!
Cally
Just found your blog! It looks great Anna, well done, we found it via Martin and Barbara’s German Fair blog – What a stunning picture of Cristosende in the snow…. I can feel the need for another scarf coming on…
Feliz Navidad, Debs & Mervyn
Hi Anna,
Found your blog address in your last posting at OLG. Lovely that you started a blog about your life out there. I’ll keep visiting 🙂
Have a nice Christmas; over here in Holland it is like a fairytale with 20cm snow, as long as you do not need to go anywhere……
greetings Margreet
[…] Also this week I became a model for Anna Champeney and one of her gorgeous natural scarfs – being featured on her blog – Textiles Naturales in the Ribeira Sacra – in Spanish – Proyecto de Tintes Naturales or in English – Autumn Scarf Natural Dyeing Project […]