{"id":2648,"date":"2020-09-28T15:55:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T19:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/?p=2648"},"modified":"2020-09-29T14:17:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T18:17:50","slug":"tapestry-weaving-rachel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/tapestry-weaving-rachel\/","title":{"rendered":"Tapestry Weaving – Rachel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Here is the finished tapestry weaving taken off of the loom. In general, I was trying all of the warp techniques from the glossary that I could figure out. In the beginning, I stuck to four colors, and just tried to keep it interesting by not using large blocks of one color, but patterning instead. It seemed quite stiff and technical. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, after class last week and seeing more curved and textured examples, I started going in that direction. For me, I was just trying to compose something that was spontaneous and free. In architecture, we rarely do that – everything must be planned and the stakes are high with mistakes. So I wanted to use this project as a way to just relax and go where the yarn takes me. I ended up including more colors, and thicker yarn. The more wavy\/curvy look takes your eye up and through the piece better than the base does. Given the colors and the techniques, it seems like a storm is coming on top of a calmer base. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have noticed that the pulling of the hourglass shape of the weave is not as bad when you take it off the loom, something I was worried about before. To finish after taking it off the loom, I used a Damascus Edge on each side, and then a Bound Warp Protector for the bottom part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the last weft on the top, I used the scraps after I cleaned up the edges of the weave. I left tails of around 6 inches each when weaving, and I did not want to just discard them, so I tied them together and braided them to use as a weft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is the finished tapestry weaving taken off of the loom. In general, I was trying all of the warp techniques from the glossary that I could figure out. In the beginning, I stuck to four colors, and just tried to keep it interesting by not using large blocks of one color, but patterning instead. … Continue reading “Tapestry Weaving – Rachel”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648"}],"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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2725,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions\/2725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/62-150\/f2020a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}