Gallery

 

This weaving has been worked with Shetland wool, using the double weave technique in order to make it twice the width the loom would normally be able to deal with. After weaving it was fulled.

The shawl is knitted from a pattern - Bowerbird - by Cath Ward. The wool is a mixture of merino and peduncle silk, handspun on a spindle.

A scarf on the loom. This is an eight-shaft pattern. The shafts (horizontal metal rods) with their heddles are lifted by pulling down the wooden toggles at the top of the photo. This leaves an opening - the shed - for the weft to pass through. The lifting of the shafts in various combinations will form the pattern of the finished weave.
 

Samples of a selection of fibres, worked in different ways. The samples were done on a course taken at the Association Summer School.

Silk scarf - a first shaft weaving.

Scarf woven on a rigid heddle loom, with hand spun yarn. The fibres are wool, alpaca and silk.

Drumcarded fibre mix of merino wool, silk, angora rabbit and angelina sparkle; handspun and wound onto a niddy-noddy to form the skein.

Hand spun yarn knitted into a waistcoat with a cabled design.

Fingerless mittens knitted in domino knitting with handspun yarn.

 

A tea-cozy knitted with slub yarn, hand spun from wool and silk. The flowers and leaf are knitted.

A wet-felted flower. The flower is felted from merino with strands of silk.

A rigid heddle woven scarf made from remnants. Notice the pink weft ready to be pushed down to form the cloth.

A four-shaft scarf woven from remnants. The shuttle is pushed through the shed with the next weft thread.

A double-sided twill scarf.