Laverne,

I am trying to make some Andean pebbleweave key fobs on an inkle loom and totally messed up on the number of warp threads on my first warp. Please confirm my re-figured numbers. When I speak of one pair of warp thread on the inkle loom, I mean one through the heddle and one in the open, really two warps. Sorry I don't know the naming convention for this.

 I want to make key fobs combining several smaller motifs - a centered 8 revolution pattern with a 4 rev pattern on each side. For each 4 rev pattern, I will have two colors, say green and yellow. When warping the inkle loom, I would put the green in a heddle and the yellow in the open - 8 warp threads each = 8 pairs = 4 revolutions??? and for the center, say blue and orange (that would be a wild key fob!) I would put the blue in the heddle and orange in the open - 16 threads each??? Should the background color be in the heddles or in the open?

Thanks a bundle! I have one more trip to make this summer and am hoping to be able to do this project on the road. I miss weaving Andean pebbleweave!

Jennifer

Comments

bolivian warmi

Hi Jennifer,

A 4-rev design gives you 8 complementary pairs with which to form your patterns. So you need to have 8 threads of each color. You need to have 8 green threads in your heddles and 8 yellows in the other shed which I believe you are calling the open shed.

Like this you will be manually picking both your pebble and pattern sheds. Remember to try and start your pebble weaving straight away as doing some rows of plain horizontal bars at the start will mess up your width.

Go for the wild colors! I had so much fun making 40+ keyfobs before and during Convergence trying to make almost every one a different color combo. There was only one that I didn't like in the end and someone happily took it because they loved it!

jordanj (not verified)

I have been home sick for the last 2 days - no energy for the big looms, but a Andean Pebbleweave on the inkle loom was just the ticket. I am happy that I didn't forget much of what I had learned from Lavern's book after a summer of practically no weaving.

bolivian warmi

Lovely! But where are all those jolly colors you were talking about? Get well soon!

jordanj (not verified)

Jolly colors took more energy than I had. I tried two different combinations and then took the warps off. The color thing is hard for me! This green and brown warp was my daughter's choice for a key fob I promised months ago. 

This is the first time I've tried Aunt Lydia's No. 3 and it's great! And since it's so cheap, I feel I can be generous in the trial and error department.

bolivian warmi

One strange thing I noticed when I was putting together odd color combinations is that a lot of them looked truly awful when I was doing the start of the keyfob in plain pebble weave but once I started weaving the motifs, and the pattern color dominated, the whole look changed.