An Echo Weave study for the CW 16's exchange.
August to October

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In Echo Weave a threading is designed and then "echoed" a set number of shafts away, and usually threaded in a different colour. As I have 16 shafts I was able to do three echoes of the original line, each four shafts up from the last.

Half of the four-colour warp wound on the warping mill.

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Beaming the warp - the water jugs apply even tension to the warp - and free up Allan from having to assist!

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The warp - 810 ends - is about half threaded through the heddles.

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All threaded and sleyed in the reed. As this is an experiment, the left half was sleyed at a higher density than the right. After weaving some "samples" it will be cut off and washed and the correct sett to use determined.

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Sample 1, tie-up 1, treadling 1. I've generated 8 tie-ups and 5 treadlings - they won't all be used.

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Samples 3, tie-up 2, treadling 4.

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There were eventually six samples woven, five tie-ups, five treadlings, three different weft yarns.

Here they have been cut off, separated and wet finished. The left side was sleyed at 54 ends per inch, the right at 45 epi. The more dense set felt more stable so the right hand threads were re-sleyed to match the left.

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I chose the tie-up, treadling and navy weft yarn, like the second sample from the bottom above, to weave yardage to be cut into samples to exchange with the Complex Weavers study group. Here it has just reached the back of the loom.

There was enough warp left at the end to weave four place mats and a small "runner."

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Weaving went right to the end, with as little waste as possible.

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And just a few inches left on the other side of the reed.

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Here is the yardage ready to be cut into samples for the exchange.

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Two place mats woven with the same weft, but different treadlings.

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These two place mats and the small runner were woven with green weft instead of navy.

They will be gifts for our guild's Christmas party. Last spring we each received some yarn from another member and were challenged to make them something with it for Christmas. I received the green cotton used for the weft here.

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Eighteen 6X6 samples cut and serged and ready to be mailed off for the study group exchange.

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