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Sat, 02/09/2013 - 16:00

fairhavenweaver (not verified)

Well, one big difference between echo weave and shadow weave is that echo weave is a one-shuttle weave. Another is that you can use a twill draft as the starting point. The ones I've seen or read about have all been twills, either networked or advancing, so that's a good place to start. Weaving software makes it very easy to experiment with designs. Here is a list of articles if you want to read up: Smith, Dottie, Scarves: Echo 2 versus Echo 3, Complex Weavers Journal, June 2011, pp39-41 Note there was a reference to a previous article by Dottie Smith in CWJ October 2010, called Crayola Challenge: Echo-2 Scarf Schlein, Alice, Echo Weave: Something Old and Something New, WEAVER'S Issue 32 pp 18 - 22 Elkins, Barbara, Peacock Scarf in Networked Echo Weave, HANDWOVEN MAGAZINE, SO 2007, pp 64 -67 Virginia
Sat, 02/09/2013 - 19:30

fairhavenweaver (not verified)

I forgot two other references:

Rude, Sandra, Adventures in Parallel Threading, Part 1, COMPLEX WEAVERS JOURNAL, October 2005, pp 36 - 39

Rude, Sandra, Adventures in Not-So-Parallel Threading, Part 2, COMPLEX WEAVERS JOURNAL, February 2006, pp 28 - 33

Virginia

Sun, 02/10/2013 - 01:34

SallyE (not verified)

Thanks for the explaination.  Now I have some reading to do!

 

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Notes

This was my first experience with echo weave. The draft was a 16-shaft network twill in Iris tencel, with an echo threading 8 shafts above in Lemongrass tencel. There is a mirror repeat in the center, so there is no actual repeat in the warp. The treadling for both scarves is an expanded advancing twill with a reversal. The first scarf has Aquamarine 8/2 tencel for the weft and the second scarf has 10/2 magenta bamboo for the weft. There was a surprising difference in the finished width of the two scarves. The one with the tencel weft is 7" wide and the one with the (slightly finer) 10/2 bamboo is only 6". Hmmm...

I washed the scarves on gentle cycle. put them in the dryer for a bit on low heat, then hung them. When they were nearly dry, I gave them a really hard press with a warm iron. Boy, that hard pressing sure makes a difference - thank you Laura Fry! I love the way you can see more than just the three colors using this technique. This was a really fun project.

Number of Shafts
16
Number of Treadles
16
Project Status
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