Sheep's selvedge

I have some wool yarn bought with a huge supply of worsted. The yarn is single-stranded, quite loosely. I have already woven it on vertical looms and I know that it breaks. It was time to test it in weaving selvedges.

I started by tightening the yarn on the spinning wheel. The impression was pleasant – it was the first time I had such an even yarn. I have no experience with spinning, so it was pure joy.

I prepared the warp on the inkle loom and put on the harness. Unfortunately, it turned out that this was not a good idea, because the warp threads were catching on each other a lot. I ripped the opened selvedge, cut the warp and put it on the bardko. Only then did weaving become more feasible, because the threads were separated, in other words, the warp was spread out 😉

Single-twisted yarn is quite pleasant to weave, because the weave looks nice – each “grain” is smooth. Only the edge thread tends to unravel, but it has never broken on me (neither this time nor in previous single-yarn selvedges).

The selvedge that I have the pleasure of presenting today is very sheep-like. The material is sheep-like in composition and color. Originally, the gray wool in the selvedge looks darker. And the smell is very sheep-like… 🙂

I didn't go overboard with the length this time - the selvedge is only 4.5 m long. The width is 2 cm. It came out very stiff - like a canvas belt.