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Fri, 06/12/2009 - 14:30

TheWeavingDiva (not verified)

Nancy -   I am happy your doing moderator duty but I'm not sure I'd always let Lillian have the last word...perhaps occassionally but not always!     : )

Nicki

http://cyberfiberscriber.blogspot.com

ps.  I will post one of my favorite taquete pieces once I figure out how to do it.   It's not intuitive...at least for me.  

 

 

Sat, 06/13/2009 - 16:13

TheWeavingDiva (not verified)

Here's my favorite taquete piece...  it's called Anatomy of a Rainbow .

Sun, 06/14/2009 - 04:30

Lodi_Weaver (not verified)

 Are there some particularly good resources for how to get started with taquete that you can recommend?  This looks like something that I might really enjoy learning about.

Sun, 06/14/2009 - 16:07

weaversouth (not verified)

Go to Lillian Whipple's website and order her "lesson on a disc."  she will also be teaching at Convergence next summer.

I would start with Summer and Winter, and explore all those variations THOROUGHLY, then get into doing some simple, 2-colour taquete.

When the dust settles around here, I will upload the .wif for the cross bookmarks I made for this year's Confirmation class.  I did some in Dukagang and some as 2-colour taqueté on 8 shafts.

Nancy C.

Sun, 06/14/2009 - 16:29

weaversouth (not verified)

OK< the pictures of the cross bookmark are on "my stuff"  whew

Mon, 06/15/2009 - 01:58

weaversouth (not verified)

yeah, putting a picture up seems to be kind of tricky.

Tue, 06/16/2009 - 13:35

Su Butler

I am the chairperson of the Complex Weavers Tied Weave Study group, and many of our members study Taquete. Taquete, also called Weft Compound Tabby, S&W polychrome without tabbies, Double Binding Technique, and many other names, is a weft faced weave that relies on color rotation and contrast to develop pattern. Once understood, there is a tremendous amount of design freedom for the weaver. If you are a member of Complex Weavers, you have access to the past 8 years of study group notebooks, and you will find some good info about Taquete. John Becker's "Pattern and Loom" has an excellent description as well. (Book available for loan to CW members). Lillian's disc is an excellent beginning lesson. Most weaving texts have information about Summer and Winter, which, imho, really ought to be called Single Two Tie Unit weave, and where there is info about S&W, there is info about S&W Polychrome without tabbies, which is taquete. Weavers Magazine has many articles on Taquete.
Tue, 06/16/2009 - 15:08

DeannaJ

Thanks for starting this group, Nancy!

I've been playing with taquete recently and have a few posts on my blog about my experiments.

http://awindingthread.blogspot.com/2009/04/more-taquete-experimenting.html

I've got a new warp on my David loom, ready and waiting, and my intention is to take the teapot/teacup design and weave some tea towels, since that was my favorite design during the experimenting. There are also a few posts about ways to chart designs - using Fiberworks PCW Silver's sketchbook, Photoshop,  Excel, and even tables in Word.

 

 

Tue, 06/16/2009 - 15:34

weaversouth (not verified)

hey, I'm so glad you're aboard!   thanks for joining and putting up all that info!

Tue, 06/16/2009 - 15:41

weaversouth (not verified)

Just a suggestion as to sources.

I have found charted-cross-stich collections to be invaluable!  I started off with "Here Be Wyverns" and made a little dragon design (not sampled yet) and have been using a collection of charted alphabets to create some special liturgical work.

(more on that  at a later date)

When I came back from Lillian's Texas workshop, I ordered everything amazon.com had and have been in hog-heaven ever since!

I still have to chart a lot of stuff from scratch on my own,  but this can save you buckets of time for so many shapes and motifs!

Sat, 07/04/2009 - 21:15

BonnieI (not verified)

Read Lillian Whipple's article on WeaveZine.  She shows both summer and winter and taquete.