First attempt at joining inkle bands
New to inkle weaving and attempted to join bands probably to be used as a sachel/bag in the future. Learned a great deal while enjoying this project and sewing most certainly is not my passion. Band pick-up pattern designs used with thanks to online blogs of Laverne Waddington and Heather Heroldt.
Guarani design mug rugs
These are for a friend whose kitchen is decorated with flower and butterfly motifs. She wants them for her breakfast bar. The design is from Guarani weavings here in Santa Cruz in the Bolivian lowlands. The Guarani designs in this technique depict the lush tropical nature of this area with butterfly, flower, vine and fruit morifs. The pattern on the mug rugs is a leaf pattern which I wove one way and then mirrored. They are edged with tubular woven bands.
The red and black one was the prototype which I will keep. My friend has yet to choose the colors for the fourth mug rug in the set. Now she is telling me that they are too pretty to use and that she will put the on the wall!
Finished the 2nd half of the Green warp! (think dog)
After I cut the first half off and retied to the front beam the tension was perfect. I actually like both of these little bands. Amazing considering I hated the colors in the warp. I went for larger less busy motif this time. I even invented a few of my own. I think these will make cute little envelope bags for Christmas presents. They are great make up or personal item bags.
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purse with Chinchero design
This is the third in a set of tool bags I am making. This latest red one has a traditional design of Chinchero, Peru. The Chinchero weavers usually weave this in four colors although I have seen two color examples too. I used three. I started with four and had to unweave as the combination just didn't work and so I replaced two of the four colors. That is the price to pay for not having made a sample!! I had used red, green and purple together before with nice results but it was the fourth color that ruined everything. I have yet to sew it up.
You can read more about the structure of this weave on my blog today.
Bolivian chuspa
This is the second project that I made with my weaving teacher in Potosi, Bolivia. It is called a ''chuspa'' and is a pouch that is used to carry the coca leaves that people chew constantly as they go about their daily business. My teacher,Julia, is pictured above taking a break from instructing me with a plastic bag of coca leaves.
The bag must be warped in a certain way-pictured above, to allow for the small pocket which is part of the bag-seen above. A small block made of, amongst other things, compressed ash is carried in this small pocket. Small piece of this are chewed along with the coca leaves.
The bag is made in the bright colors favored by my teacher and a lot of the women in this area. We finished the bag with a tubular woven edge, seen above, and the little pocket is finished in crossed knit looping.
Lace Pick Up
I've slightly adapted this to make more sense to me. This is great article and I wish Handwoven would produce an online rigid heddle projects book using someof Betty Davenport's articles (among others).
