Comments

elisabethhill (not verified)

I love the textural complexity of the white on white piece.  Does the red and white piece also have the lacey areas? I can't tell from the photo. Anyway - inspiring piece.

 

Lisa

lkautio (not verified)

Thanks! Yes, the canvas is in both, but since the red one is pictured on the loom the holes have not opened up.  They form the zigzags that separate the braided twill as in the white piece.  In the white runner you do not have the distraction of the different warp and weft colors in the turning floats of the canvas areas  making the lace more prominent.  In the red sample the twill is more prominent.

Laurie Autio

Karren K. Brito

Lovely. lovely.  I think the monochromatic color choice show the texture well. Wish I could touch it.

Ellen (not verified)

That it very lovely. A little bit of "shaft-envy" here! It would be great with a photo of the the whole runner, it sounds like a marvel in its entire composition.

lkautio (not verified)

Karren, it has that typical solid, heavy, smooth, cool feeling of heavier wet-spun linen (think placemat weight).

Ellen, I'm not a good enough photographer to get a picture of the whole thing in white on white that shows much at the scale of pictures allowed here.  Picture zigzags at each end, then a long stretch of diagonal in one direction in the middle. Because the mirrors at the points alternate between two different places the ends are not identical (think ABABA vs BABAB).  Design decision on my part, but for those who like more regularity it might be disturbing.

Thanks for the comments!

Laurie Autio

 

amyfibre (not verified)

Beautiful, Laurie!  And thank you for sharing your design process. 

msthimble

 

OMD, Laurie, it is a work of art!!!  I love cloth with lost of visual information.  A masterpiece!!

XO Gail & Fog

B P (not verified)

Thanks for posting this, it's a lovely pattern!

I really like the effect of the reversal of tie-up at the points of the zig zag, in the white and red sample.

Beth

lkautio (not verified)

Thanks! I liked the way they looked, and they function to keep the floats shorter at the points.

Laurie Autio

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Notes

Original pattern used for Complex Weavers Lace Study Group exchange on canvas weave.  I created a braided twill, then shaded the individual lozenges, split them apart, and added a zigzag of canvas on 32S straight draw.  At the points of the zigzags the tie-up changes face (reverses front and back).  This was woven on a computer-controlled dobby.  It would take up to 64 treadles on a treadle loom.  It is woven square, at 20 ppi. The details show best with a colored weft, but I chose to weave the runner in white on white. The ends of the runner zigzag, with a long straight diagonal section in the middle.  The lace units open well at this sett without the twill being sleazy. The red sample is shown on the loom, the white runner after washing.

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Number of Treadles
2
Project Status
Not Started
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