Star Warps

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 ...

Almost immediately after finishing the last project (that I still have to blog about!), which were a set of rugs for our apartment, we moved. Making curtains feels like a great way to not only learn a new weave structure or two since it's essentially weaving yardage, but it also feels like a great way of making this space truly our own. I'm planning on starting with curtains for the living room/office area because we spend a lot of time in this room, and while I absolutely love looking out my windows and into those of my neighbors (in a curious way, not a creepy way - I'm not Rear Windowing this at all ), I would also really like to feel like there's a smidgen more of a barrier between me and my neighbors. This is what the space those curtains are going to go into looks like. This space gets a lot of natural light and I want that light to come through the curtains so I was looking for something sort of gauzy and ran into a picture on Instagram from tesiapark that ...