Hello together,

Last days I was so banned of backstrap weaving again, since I´ve read Lavernes  article in Weavezine, so that I´m very glad to find this group to get more and more informations exspecially about the peruvian pattering on backstrap loom.

 My name is Kristina and I live in Germany - so please excuse my  simple English!  It`s good for me to find a a lot of tutorials  with pictures and I work on my " weaving English".

I´m weaving with diffent Looms and I`m working  on floor loom, Inkleloom, backstrap ( but I have problems with my back),Rigid heddle and with cards. 

I´m very interested in peruvian and bolivian patterns since I saw the works of Marijke van Epen and of Peter Collingwood.   

I tried to do some with cards, because I found always literature about brocading on backstrap loom , but not about warpfaced pattering .

 So I hope to learn together with you all and hope to bring you some information too.

 Laverne,

 if you are looking for informations about Finnweave there is a very good book ( in german but with  a lot of pictures) called "Die Kunst des Doppelwebens" von Annelie Machschefes ISBN 3-7944-0123-9 , maybe you will find it at amazon or ebay. 

And here you can see Finnweave again  :

http://www.allfiberarts.com/library/gallery/bltan-pickup.htm

On The picture  you can see one of my bands  woven with cards with three different patterns.

Greetings and a good week.

Kristina

 

Comments

Sun, 09/27/2009 - 18:27

bolivian warmi

Hi Kristina,

Your bands are lovely. You are weaving my favourite bird design too.

Linda Hendrickson told me about Marijke van Epen and I took a look at her site. Her card woven bands are beautiful and so clever of her to have worked out how to weave pebble weave on them. I just bought Linda Hendrickson's little book called ''Two-Hole Andean Pebble Weave'' for cards. (only $7) It's great to see your examples and I love the colours you have chosen. One of these days I will buy Marijke's book but it is a bit expensive to send it out from Europe.

Thank you for the book reference for finnweave. If I need help with the German text, I can always ask you, right? We have another member from Germany. Her name is Tiia. I hope you guys can get together and talk about things in German here.

Take a look at the double weave instructions here..................

www.weavolution.com/node/4611

I hope the photos will help but I am also planning to make video for this-maybe not today (my camera man is busy watching soccer!!) but certainly during this coming week.

Laverne

Mon, 09/28/2009 - 04:49

jeannine (not verified)

Guten tag ,Kristina ,

I am always glad to see some eu-weavers here.I live in belgium .where in germany do you live?don't worry about simple english thats all we need to talk about weaving and pictures make the rest of it. I learned a lot in a short time and every one is so kind and cooparative.Ask whatever you want to know about weaving here or at the general weaving forum and i am sure you will find an  answer.if there is something to translate you can use google translate.

viel Spaß beim Weben,

jeannine

Mon, 09/28/2009 - 05:37

Caroline (not verified)

hI Kristina, I'm Caroline in Australia. The people in this group come from all over the place! Its very friendly and we support each other and help where we can. I'm usually awake when everyone else is asleep, so there is always someone around  24/7 if you have any questions or if you just want a chat.

Mon, 09/28/2009 - 16:14

Kristina (not verified)

 Liebe Jeannine,

I´m living in the central of Germany in the near of Frankfurt ( big airport). We have here  a lot of forest and a very popular pottery tradition.

I´m member of a spinning mailing-list , there we have some spinners of begium too. Its always very interesting to get new ideas from the other countries, because I´think there are different movements and popular technics in  handicrafts.

I´m curious to see who is all around here.

 Viele Grüße!

Kristina

 

Mon, 09/28/2009 - 16:24

Kristina (not verified)

 Hi Caroline,

thank you for welcome. I´m glad to be here.

It´s fascinating to have the possibility to talk to people around the world about weaving. In my own space I do not know so much people with similar interests.

 But I´m lucky to be member of a weaving group in my hometown with a lot of very old woman, they share theire knowldge about weaving on floorloom with me.

 Greetings to down under!

Kristina

Tue, 09/29/2009 - 00:00

bolivian warmi

Hi Kristina,

You mentioned to me on my Flikr page that you tried the warp float patterning on your rigid heddle loom. Do you have photos to post? I am just about to try some patterning on my RH loom using continuous string heddles.

Laverne

Tue, 09/29/2009 - 09:16

Kristina (not verified)

  Hi Laverne, 

i decidet to use continous heddles to because I hadn`t a heddle that fits. 

It works good with continous heddles - my son is here the weaver- he is 10 jears old - and loves to try everything new. But we had chosen the wrong material ( Wool for the warp)  so we had pilling in the heddles. And  it was more and more hard to open the shed.  Now  we want to trie again with cotton.

Kristina

Tue, 09/29/2009 - 13:37

bolivian warmi

Hey! I LOVE it! Next time if you want to use wool you should respin it first. That will help with the pilling problem (although there will always be SOME pilling) I really need one of those small shuttles-you saw the gigantic one I was using in my videos in the article.

I am very motivated to set up a warp on my rigid heddle loom today although I will never give up my backstrap!-this is only so I can teach the patterning techniques to those who can't or don't want to use a backstrap.

Thanks for posting this, Kristina

Laverne.