Krokbragd and monks bag on Yarn in my pocket blog

That's a great find, Franco.  I love the colors on the monks bag.  The Krokbrargd on an RH loom is something I'd love to try out.  Perhaps we can add it to the ideas for the future in the WAL group just formed.

Claudia

I've been fancying doing the bag for a while - but I have a big Craft Fair in just over 2 weeks so I'm doing nothing until that is over, and the way our summer temperatures are going - I won't be doing much else after that!

The Krokbrargd looks interesting, something for next year i think, after the Mobius and a few personal projects, hehe!

Hey, Franco, thanks for the shout-out!!  I have seen a **huuuuge** spike in my visitors over the last couple of days!  Awesome!  (No extra comments tho... sniff!)  ;)

I have more to post on the Krokbragd stuff; lots of details on how it works.  I just have to get the words and diagrams all together in one place, sometime.

And clearly, I need to pop in here more often, too.  :)

Alison

Hey Alison,

You put more stuff on the blog and I'll to get you some more readers.

Have a good day!

Anyone still reading this thread...?

Anyway, I finally got round to writing more about krokbragd, here - how it works, not specific to the rigid heddle.  There's more to come, but only so much I can put in one post..

 I just made a comment at your blog about your krokbragd exploration.  I mentioned a couple of books you and others might want to take a look at for further information about this wonderful weft-faced structure.  These are the Nancy Hoskins book, Weft-Faced Pattern Weaves and Katherine Larson's book The Woven Coverlets of Norway.

I'll be visiting your blog to see how your krokbragd work turns out!

Tommye Scanlin

Hi Everyone.  A while ago I posted some images from the utility I've developed to generate simulations of weft-faced textiles, including krokbragd.  You can see some examples at this link :

http://www.weavolution.com/node/5213?#new

These are done in CorelDraw and not many folks have that program, but if anyone does I'll be happy to share.

Bonnie.

It would be nice to see these things here, too.

Weavolution could use a little shout out. We just reached some significant milestones I'll be writing about in the News. Most people read the "Hot Topics" and this is certainly one of them.

As you have seen, we revised and improved the forum structure and changed from threaded comments to completely chronological with each comment numbered and noted as to which comment a reply refers to.

Yes, there are a few bugs our developers are working on. For the most part, it's been an easy and welcome tranistion.

In addition, we are now over 4000 users strong! And we continue to be free and available to all 24/7.

We love that you are here, please share your work with us, it strengthens the site and offers the information to all who stop by and read what is going on.

Thanks,

Claudia, Weavolution co-founder, partner and erstwhile weaver

Bonnie, your Corel Draw utility is very, very cool!  The deflection issue is one that was tugging at the back of my brain last night, as I was thinking about my simplistic little mock-ups.  Mine are just a really quick way of approximating the 'look', based on the vector drawing facilities - and especially grouping - available in MS Office.  I really should weave up some of the more finicky patterns I included in my blog post and see how they come out 'in the wool'.

Alison

Wow, that's certainly an enthusiastic welcome!  ;)

I have to admit that I haven't fully gotten into the swing of Weavolution.  I've been a member since near the beginning, I am also desperately aware that I am in danger of spending all my time talking about my passions, rather than actively pursuing them.

It would never have occurred to me to post an 'article' of this nature on Weavolution, for several reasons.  Firstly, I'm not by *any* means an experienced weaver - just a dabbler and a thinker.  I'm sure there are lots more knowledgeable people on here than me - I was honestly amazed and flattered and delighted that Franco thought it worth pointing up my first post here, and that it got such attention!

Secondly, I don't think I'd know where to put it.  A project?  A forum post?  Not sure!

Thirdly, I wanted it to be discoverable by people using search engines.  I couldn't find much at all on krokbragd when I started googling for it, certainly not at 'my level', and I wanted to help fix that.  I don't know how/if Weavolution is optimized for search engines, but I know I didn't find any Weavolution hits in my early searches.

It takes time to write a post, or create a project on a website, or to write in a forum.  I don't want to commit the sin of spray-posting, where I copy and paste the same thing over and over again in multiple venues.  That always looks cheap to me.  I am always trying to maintain a balance between doing, writing, thinking, and the day job!  I am going to try, hard, to hang out here more for the next few weeks.  And to enter some projects in my profile.

Alison

Hey Alison,

Thank you for such a well considered response. We look forward to having you around some more. Please consider adding a "Link to us" for Weavolution on your blog.

Many of the weavers here post on their blogs and then copy and paste the same item on Weavolution with a link to their blog. It's up to you. Most of us are just handweavers with some experiences to share. And then some, like Bonnie, Laura and Sharon to name a few, have many years of weaving experience and book publishing behind them. We love it when they stop by.

Looking forward to having you join us more often, as your time allows.

Claudia

Alison, I love your monk's bag, and I'd love to make one myself, but just can't quite work out the layout in my head!

Good luck with your A&S 50 Challenge. I need to start on mine...