doing 3 rows of each color, weft-face, and then soumak row before going back to weft-face.....
orange & green yarns are done in middle-row there of "oriental, closed" soumak, the brown & yellow's middle-rows are being done in the greek, those last 2 colors were not as "tall" from fabric & more even if i did only 2 knots per warp, but i changed mind and did them 3 knots instead..... i'm digging the uneven'ness of it all makes me think of pebbles of sand and bark on trees....
the weft yarns are very thick, super-bulky.. a Halcyon rug-wool... me likes :)
edit: you can see that i tied some of the warp-threads together in center panel (just tied them so i didnt accidentally forget to treat them as "one").. i had 90 warp threads, and gave me 3 panels of 30, but wanted to have those panels be odd numbered... specifically wanted 9s too, 9 sets of 3-warps....so i had the left panel give 3 warps to a little outside border, and did same with right panel, and in center panel i tied 3 of its warps to neighbors.. tada. i gots my 9 sets for each panel now..
EDIT: 28 July, i have darned all the ends & also did a bit of a running-stitch on the back-side of the pillow-top, so that all of those little kilim-squares of color are attached (well) at their corners... i wanted to reinforce it a bit so that the pillow won't mind people sitting down on it (hard!) ;) and have also finally decided what sort of finishing to do with those warp-ends there, just a little knot-making & beading... still have inkle i want to make for side of pillow, and will sew either denim or burlap to be its "bottom" but haven't decided yet..
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