Pasamo... with passion
I planned to post some photos of my looms to illustrate the story of their creation, but uncle Google does such wonders with searches that I didn’t want to give him any more reasons to mix and match. People looking for information about looms and weaving might be horrified… I’ll just tell you that initially the looms consisted of a few joists, which were the subject of mockery by a certain Lord…
I'm just jumping from one YouTube video to another and I'm finding a ton of interesting stuff. Some phenomenally clever chick is showing the principles of weaving on a horizontal loom. I wish I had thought of those obvious solutions. Her method of setting up a half-harness is much simpler than the one I saw in Professor Turnau's book. A horizontal loom is a distant dream to me,…
Among the dwindling supplies of yarn I had 2 skeins of pure thick wool. The red and white look beautiful. I'm just a little sad that the association with the national flag comes to some people as if with simultaneous disgust or a kind of shame. I'll be disgusted if someone associates my selvedges with a pop culture overgrown dwarf that has been flying before our eyes for…
Another selvedge has been photographed 🙂 This is probably the longest of my selvedges – it is 10.65 m long. The width is 2.7 cm. The pattern is a combination of a zigzag and a herringbone. In the background and on the edges you can see dots, which came out by using a lighter thread.
The blog title has selvedges, but in the content of the posts there seems to be not enough of them. I decided to fix that. I would like to show each new selvedge. Here is a selvedge with a standard length… for me, which is 10 meters. It is 1.8 cm wide. It would be best for hemming a garment. The pattern on it is quite simple, but if you consider the tool…