[SCA-AS] Artssciences Digest, Vol 54, Issue 3

[Sydney Walker Freedman]

Thanks for the description.  There's no need to send a picture because I'm
blind.  ;)  I'll have to try this out and see what happens.  Has anyone
ever taught a class about this type of weaving?

Cecilia

> The warp threads are stretched between two beams
> supported just off the ground.  The garment is shaped
> on the loom as it is woven.  The two beams have to be
> as long as the doubled length of the finished garment.
> The warps run the width of the garment from sleeve hem
> to sleeve hem, and the weaving begins at one sleeve
> edge.  Only the width of the sleeve is woven, until
> the side of the garment is reached.  Then the weaving
> goes the entire double length of the garment.  At the
> shoulder, double wefts or twining is inserted to
> reinforce the neck edge.  Then the front and back are
> woven with separate shuttles until the other edge of
> the neck slit is reached, when it resumes hem to hem
> weaving.  More reinforcing is inserted at the other
> side of the neck edge.  The tapestry bands are woven
> in as the garment progresses.  When you get to the
> other sleeve, you will just be weaving the sleeve
> itself, leaving the other warps empty.
> On some garments, these empty warps are trimmed and
> left as fringe on the side seams.
>
> If this is too confusing, email me off list and I'll
> see if I can scan in a picture or two and send them to
> you.