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Fiona Nisbet
Hand knitted and felted market bag.
100% wool
Designing hand knitted cafetière cosies using hand-spun wool, with a hand-knitted i-cord button.
Shuttles wound ready for weaving sitting on my pattern book
Warp on the rigid heddle loom ready for weaving
Weaving in progress. Weft colour order the same as the warp order - nearly!
Sample cloth off the loom
Weaving Shetland Cloth for waistcoats
Shetland wool waistcoat using a different colour combination
Weaving the fabric with twill pattern
This multicoloured warp was given a close sett (10 e.p.i with two strands of rug wool yarn per warp) to make a strong, dense fabric.
It’s a point twill threading which gives the fabric an interesting pattern using a contrasting weft yarn.
Saddle Bag to follow.......
Warp going through the raddle
Warp being tied onto the front stick
Warp being threaded through the reed
Warp threaded through the heddles and stick
Warp at the back of the loom
- Weaving with Rug wool (80% wool/20% nylon)
Weaving to the end of the warp
Cutting the fabric off the loom