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Undaily Namedrafts
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“Don’t slap pandas”
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…because I received a gift t-shirt in the mail that came with these care instructions.
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I don’t know how I lost track of this forum topic for months, but this made it all worth the catching up!! ????
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It’s the little things.
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“Twill” because I’ve been up all night thinking about it.
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Could you share the wif file for this one? I really like it!
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I didn’t do a thing to it but use the default motifs settings and mirror in Fiberworks a few times. :)
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thanks Janet. It’s on my list of “projects to weave” It’s a very long list, so who knows when (or even if) I’ll ever get to it.
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(adj.) Quanked: overcome by fatigue.
I like the way it looks like a pillow, and the borders remind me of zZZzzzZZzzZzzzs.
Mind you, everything reminds me of ZzzZZzzzzZZzs right now, because I am quanked.
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“Release the hounds”
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Tintinnabulum – a word I learned in yesterday’s guild meeting: a small tinkling bell
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That must be where tinnitus comes from!
This one’s really nice! Much nicer than, say, tinnitus…
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Cool! I hadn’t made the connection but you’re right:
tinnitus – 1843, from Latin tinnitus “a ringing, jingling,” from tinnire “to ring, tinkle”
tintinnabulation – “the ringing of bells,” 1823, from Latin tintinnabulum “bell,” from tintinnare “to ring, jingle” (reduplicated form of tinnire “to ring,” from an imitative base) + instrumental suffix -bulum. Earlier forms in English were adjectives tintinnabulary (1787), tintinnabulatory (1827), and noun tintinnabulum “small bell” (late 14c.).
(Online Etymology Dictionary)
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As expected, “ringing bells” is nicer than “tinnitus” – though both are fine depending on what you’re going for.
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My name drafts don’t come out that great. I did one that came out cool and I have it saved, next day off I will post it.
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Keep in mind that you’re seeing my highlights, not every namedraft I come up with. And sometimes I fiddle with them so that they’re not longer a faithful transliteration of the original phrase so that I like them even more. Namedrafting is a tool to launch you towards an original draft, not an ironclad set of rules you must follow.
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My first attempts with this word were trash, but I kept trying different options in Janet’s namedraft tool until I came up with one that I liked. The filename for this is tintinnabulum_odd_blocks_abijqr0_multR1_mir1_max4.wif
which you can decode if you play with it enough. I probably repeated the motif but didn’t fiddle with this one although it could definitely be improved with some judicious editing. Looking forward to seeing the one that you did.
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I’ve made a lot of name drafts. Most of them end up in the virtual trash can. Every so often something looks nice and I play with it. And even more rarely, I actually weave it!
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None of my name drafts have ever been viable. I have woven one of Janets thou. It was something Janet and her hubby came up with together. Janet did a class on different treadlings that can be used with overhot. Since I had already used the other two drafts that were given for the class I chose Janets. I had a blast making different designs out of it. I never did finish with a table runner. I just made samples and actually have them in my sewing basket to make little things from them. I found instructions on making key fabs and a bucket hat. Thinking 8/2 cotton my not be stiff enough but will give it a go.
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I took both of Janet’s overshot classes whenever it was she taught them. Thanks to her, overshot is my favorite weave structure. I also took her name drafting seminar and use the program she wrote sometimes in the evening when I’m bored and too tired to really do anything constructive. I have a whole bunch I want to weave and not enough time to weave them!
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here’s one named after my cats.
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Nice! What are their names? We can’t see the filename of the image, so that doesn’t give me any clues…
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Cleo, Gato, Tigger, Andy, Callie, Agate and Mocha
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A whole clowder! So here’s “clowder” back at you, except I thought the wheel was overpowering and took it out, so I suppose it might actually be “lowder”?
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Love it–can you share the wif? Think it would make some great table linens. I did like the circles, but not everything else and I came up with this. Think I may make myself a scarf!
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Oh I like it.
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I started with the blue one at the top of my post and fiddled around with for a while this afternoon.
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One ‘lowder, comin’ right up!
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I have done nothing to this but it’s the only one I have ever done that I want to turn into something. I like it. My phrase was Moonlight in Vermont. We have lovely moons here, so easy to see too, no light pollution to deal with. There are elements of this draft that I really like and others I do not. Now to see if I can make it work. Yeah, I made one that was cool. Or I like it. @janet do you think you can add the link for name drafting to the Academy? Sorry if you have already.
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I like it Sandra!!
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Thanks, Sue
The elements are great it’s just very unbalanced to me. I played with it some and printed it out so I could pick the elements out and try to rearrange them.
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I like that your Moonlight draft has moon shapes in it! Almost like phases of the moon. :)
Mirror the whole warp or reverse it first and then mirror. That’ll automagically make things balanced!
I usually stick to single words when drafting by motifs, since each letter turns into many ends, and then mirroring to make things balanced doubles the length again. Even at that, the designs I come up with are often so big it’s unlikely I’ll ever actually use them.
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This I just called Moonlight I like some elements. lol it’s fun playing with this.
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MoonlightinVermont 2x’s it is more balanced but I can’t help thinking that some elements need to be pulled out and kept and others tossed. Of course, making something totally different.
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That’s exactly how I approach it! I let the generator spit out a design, and then I look for parts I want to emphasize (by expanding, by repeating, by shrinking things around them, etc.) or de-emphasize (usually by shrinking) or delete altogether (by turning an entire motif into a single block, for instance. You can also set off some areas by adding some twill or ABCDABCD in overshot around them like a frame.
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You can also add color to the mix: putting the pattern (weft) color into the warp or the ground (warp) color into the weft will make lines that set things off.
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Which part(s) do you especially like? Can you slice out just that part and delete the rest?
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In the one that is Moonlight, there is a block. It has a nice design around the outside of some circles making a nice square in the lower left-hand corner. LOL I need to play but right now I need to leave this name drafting stuff and finish the project on my loom. I lost the draft I made for my daughter in laws shawl. So I either have to find it again or make a new one. Not happy with myself right now. To many projects.
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The way the roses in this bit are slightly distorted makes them look like bumper cars! I totally want to leap into one and start crashing into all the other bumper roses nearby.
<3 this so much!
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True, lol I like them too.
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I like it! When I download the name draft file, I do a lot of playing with it (repeating some things, mirroring the whole thing, taking things out). I think it’s fun! You could do a lot with your moonlight in Vermont draft.
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I am going to play with it. I have 2 weave along to finish. first. And my garden is going to take a lot of water if we don’t get rain soon.
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My garden needs rain too! And there’s none in the forecast.
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They are saying we could get some tonight or tomorrow. But from what I see it’s Friday with an 86% chance of rain.
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I’m looking at these designs and have no idea how you create them. What is a “namedraft” please? I have looked in the Weaver’s Toolbox and can’t find it listed.
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Christie, Janet did a class a yr or so ago on it. It is on her old website.
https://weavingwithjanetdawson.com/namedraft/ I have the paper that went with it so with @janet permission I am happy to share. Or maybe we can get her to run the webinar again. It was a fun time. I go to it once in a while to see if I can find something worth my time. I think I did this time. But for right now I am in the middle of several projects. One in the planning process is for a lovely young lady who has beat Cancer so far. My son calls her his sweetie, and I love her to pieces so a shawl it is. She saw the towels I was making and loved the colors posted in whats on your loom for May. So @janet , what do you say permission to share or just do a workshop? You are the best.
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Thanks Sandra.
I see the latest email from HA had a link to the blog post of Namedrafts so that is very timely.
I hope the shawl you are making for the young lady turns out just the way you want and in the colours she likes, that is a thoughtful gift.
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https://handweavingacademy.com/how-do-you-create-a-namedraft/w
try this. Post yesterday. Just don’t log into your account it’s in the sale pitch portion of the site.
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The latest blog post is all about Namedrafting and should catch anyone who’s not yet familiar with the basics up to speed. :)
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I went looking for pictures for the blog post earlier and ran across a few from my veggie series that I’ve always liked! Here’s “Brussel Sprouts” (with added fancy borders) and two different versions of “Pick me, artichoke”.
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Ron used the word “convolution” earlier and now it’s my new favourite! Turns out it’s a particular type of mathematical function as well as a twist or turn, which just makes me love it even more. I want to read up on convolution functions but that will take Serious Braining, so in the meantime here’s a namedraft of ‘Convolution’ done three different ways.
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“Four oh four” because of reasons.
I took a different approach with this one than I usually do: instead of repeating the entire thing, I picked the motifs in the middle that I liked best and repeated only those, leaving the edges to be a border. I quite like it!
I also expanded the border and tried it in two different styles, one a little lighter and one a little heavier. I like the heavier one, especially at the corner, but the lighter one has a stronger contrast with the body of the pattern. Either one would be a great choice. The heavier border would be nice all on its own, too.
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Ooo, I quite like the rose fashion version, too!
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OH I like these.
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I accidentally bought a loom just now, so today you get OLAD. With a touch of OBAD as well: obsessive border acquisition disorder. I’m all about the borders lately!
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“Density,” in honor of our latest course by @carly-jayne
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And “destiny” for any Back to the Future fans
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love it , You are enjoying doing these. lol I have a couple I am going to play with that have come out good.
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Which can only be woven at 100% density!
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