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Sat, 09/12/2009 - 18:17

bolivian warmi

Beautiful! I have just bought a book on this topic and hope to weave something so I will be pestering you with questions I suspect! Why don't you start a group for knotted pile weaving? I know that there are others interested in this. Did you learn from your husband's family?I have no idea where I can put such a loom though!!!

Mon, 09/14/2009 - 21:16

Thumper70 (not verified)

very cool!

"special tools"? I used an herb clipper, a fork (literally a dinner fork) and that was it - I'm curious to know what kit I'm missing. Mind you - I was doing mine purely as an experiment (read this as - he was quite quite clueless!).

Your pattern is lovely, I'm interested inthe loom.

A

Wed, 09/16/2009 - 19:59

aliced3786 (not verified)

 Special tools: I bought a pair of yarn clippers from the local craft store, a pair of very sharp sewing scissors for trimming the pile, a small tapestry beater and a weighted tapestry beater for beating down the knots. My tabby weft is ePic wool in green but the knots are made with harrisville shetland. I found that the unwashed yarn on cones is a little fine so I doubled it.  The loom is a Mirrix check their website. I love it; the shedding device is awesome.

Alice

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 In 2006 my two sons bought me this Mirrix Loom to weave a knotted pile with. So I warped it and started weaving. I am weaving it slowly since I don't have the special tools but so far I'm happy with it. I designed it myself and in the center it will have my son Rashid's name in Farsi (persian).(My husband is Iranian. ) I hope to finish it by the time he graduates from medical school in 2 years, HA! Because I have a stack of patterns that I amdying to weave. I have used some pictures taken by my other son to create patterns using pc stitch which is for cross stitch and needlepoint.

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