For the lady, a sample?
When last we left off, I was planning some curtains using leno for the living room. I want something that, when drawn, will provide a little interest and will still let some light through. Last year when my handweaver's guild went to MOMA I found this partition by Anni Albers quite inspiring: So more rep weave and I'll leave learning leno for another day. I won't be using the braided horse hair (!) she used for a weft, and I'm looking to use an 8/4 cotton warp with a rep-weave-like sett. Instead of black, I'm going to do teal and white stripes with a white weft. I'm a magpie at heart, so I'm also thinking of a couple of thin stripes of silver within the stripes. The only thing I wasn't sure about was the weft. So I sampled. Look, I love a good gauge swatch when I'm knitting, but if I'm honest, I hate sampling. I know I need to, but getting a warp on the loom for me is still a little challenging. Especially since I'm not following a draft ...