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Dressing the loom for kruseler
2025-01-21 08:28 pmIt is going, but slowly. I finished sleying the reed for the main fabric. Now I just have to add the frilled edge. It has its own cross, and has to be threaded in like the rest of the warp.
I did discover, while threading heddles, that I was two ends short in the end on my entire warp. Not sure if it was the final bout, or the first bout missing one full lap = 2 warp ends. It should make no difference whatsovever though.
Today, I was mightily distracted from this linen project with the thought of a silk one. Someone posted their weaving of a silk veil (Julia's instagram) to recreate the textile seen in Holbein's portrait of Dorothea Meyer (see right)
I have white, yellow and also green silk.
Eventually, when my camicia is finished I want to make a new Florentine gown to go over it, and it needs a partlet - and I think a white silk partlet with wide-set green stripes both weft and warp-ways would look wonderful. Something like the lady on the left here, by Allori (San Diego Museum of Art - Portrait of a Lady).
A couple of people expressed an interest in possibly buying the veil version off me if I were to make it. However, I am currently working on the kruseler. I haven't even thrown the first shuttle yet! And I have quite a bit of wool yarn to use up too.
But silk was high on my list of things to weave this year. We shall see.
I did discover, while threading heddles, that I was two ends short in the end on my entire warp. Not sure if it was the final bout, or the first bout missing one full lap = 2 warp ends. It should make no difference whatsovever though.
Today, I was mightily distracted from this linen project with the thought of a silk one. Someone posted their weaving of a silk veil (Julia's instagram) to recreate the textile seen in Holbein's portrait of Dorothea Meyer (see right)
I have white, yellow and also green silk.
Eventually, when my camicia is finished I want to make a new Florentine gown to go over it, and it needs a partlet - and I think a white silk partlet with wide-set green stripes both weft and warp-ways would look wonderful. Something like the lady on the left here, by Allori (San Diego Museum of Art - Portrait of a Lady).
A couple of people expressed an interest in possibly buying the veil version off me if I were to make it. However, I am currently working on the kruseler. I haven't even thrown the first shuttle yet! And I have quite a bit of wool yarn to use up too.
But silk was high on my list of things to weave this year. We shall see.
