{"id":2219,"date":"2020-09-08T10:33:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T14:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2020-09-08T11:06:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T15:06:58","slug":"improvisational-weaving-elle-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/improvisational-weaving-elle-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Improvisational Weaving &#8211; Elle Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My first weavinng uses a tape roll as a loop and I wove on both sides, experimenting with technique on various places. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Weaving-1-Front-edited-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Weaving-1-Front-edited-scaled.jpg 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src=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Weaving-1-Back-edited-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Weaving-1-Back-edited-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Weaving-1-Back-edited-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Weaving-1-Back-edited-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Weaving-1-Back-edited-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Weaving-1-Back-edited-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Weaving-1-Back-edited-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Weaving-1-Back-edited-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The weft on the top side is embroidery floss and on the bottom side is yarn that I made thicker by looping it in to a starter chain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I find it really interesting how different each of the sides looks, based off the thickness or weaving technique. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next weaving uses a book as a loom with the warp and weft made from magazine page slices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Weaving-3-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Weaving-3-768x1024.jpg 768w, 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(max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The warp on this was really tense after putting in one pen, and it was exceptionally hard to weave in any more pens. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first weavinng uses a tape roll as a loop and I wove on both sides, experimenting with technique on various places. The weft on the top side is embroidery floss and on the bottom side is yarn that I made thicker by looping it in to a starter chain. I find it really interesting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/improvisational-weaving-elle-smith\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Improvisational Weaving &#8211; Elle Smith&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13],"tags":[19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2222,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions\/2222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}