This was my first atempt to weave with energized singles. The warp yarn for this projest is a 13/1 cashmere sinles from ColourMart. I sized the yarn with linseed jelly after winding the warp, then warped up the loom. Everything worked OK, and the yarn behaved itself during weaving.
Pic1-Warp on the loom (Louet Magic).
Pic2 - a draft of Brighton Honeycomb from Sharon Alderman's "Mastering Weave Structure". I copied the original draft into as many different variations as I could think of: as a 'singles' this warp yarn has movement and I wanted to see whether each draft would look diferent when woven.
Pic3- I made a mistake when weaving, liked this mistake(!), so drafted it out and wove a sample.
The rest of the pics show the different drafts using the following wefts: 2/28 merino, same as warp, 60/2 x2 silk, 3/38 cashmere, bourette silk, singles linen and a 60/2 marled silk.
The samples were wet finished/lightly felted by hand, then tumbled dried.
I didn't get much differential shrinkage, but then I wasn't expecting to. My next shrinking project will be (hopefully) more shrunk!
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