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Help but not help.
This morning I was meandering Facebook and came across a post of these gorgeous towels. The group was a group that does Handweaving.net drafts and we talk about the draft and we oo and aww over towels and scarves and whatever the others make.
Annette Beasley made towels from draft #34375 pictures are attached as well as the WIF file of the draft. It would not load the WIF so I replaced it with a screenshot.
Annette and I both had the same question. It’s obvious it’s a waffle weave, you can see floats in the draft, but it was not labeled as a waffle weave. I know from doing a waffle weave that they shrink up considerably when taken off the loom I could tell from her pictures it was a waffle weave but the draft is nothing like any waffle weave I have ever done. I only knew I was doing waffle weave cos I was told so. lol Annette said she was surprisingly surprised by the results of the draft.
Question: When looking through handweaving.net for drafts, how do you tell that this is what you’re looking for? Janet made a comment in an earlier post she answered that many of the crackle weaves in handwaving,net are not labeled as such. So how can you tell you are doing a crackle weave, or waffle weave if not listed as such? Overshot is the same? How do you tell what you are doing?
Pictures posted with permission of Annette Beasley.
I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th holiday and Canada Day. We saw lots of our Canadian neighbors this weekend in the Northeast Kingdom. lol I think half of Montreal has a home here.
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There are many *many* variations on what we would call ‘waffle’ and what is called Brighton Honeycomb in Britain.
Sometimes you just can’t tell from looking at the draft what will happen in the wet finishing and why I *always* tell my students, wet finish your sample so you *know*.
There is ‘magic’ in the water. :)
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Thank you Laura
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