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Hi Lauriess, I'm curious to know more about your unsuccessful huck sample in white linen. You say that the linen didn't show off the huck heart. Did you wet finish the sample after you wove it? On the loom and before it's washed, linen usually looks awful! Linen is so dimensionally stable...
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Hi Michele, Thanks for sharing your experience. I think what may be causing the rippling problem is the different ways plain weave and huck lace interlace, combined with the elasticity of wool. The usual remedies (weighting the huck lace areas separately and cutting off as you go) aren't likely to...
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Hi Margaret, When stripes of huck lace alternate with stripes of plain weave, ripples such as you describe are a definite possibility because the threads in the lace areas interlace less frequently than those in the plain weave areas, and the plain weave areas take up more than the lace areas. Particularly...
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I want to weave a scarf using sock yarn with stripes of plain weave alternating with stripes of three thread huck in the warp. In the past when I've tried to have a plain weave border on huck lace the tensions are so different that the plain weave section ripples. I only have one warp beam. Any tips...
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Hi Caroline- My website is: http://maurinesfiberfriends.homestead.com . I have different sections on my site. Once you enter my website you can click on WOVEN FABRIC DOLLS to see the type of dolls that I make wearing my handwoven fabric. I have a section showing my Weaving Study Group, Felting, my crafty...
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I'm weaving my Huck Lace on my 8 shaft Voyager Loom using 10/2 pearl cotton set at 24 epi. I'm using a 12 dent reed with 2 warps in each dent. My pattern came from the January/February 2006 issue of Handwoven- pages 44-47. Since I did not have enough heddles on shafts 1 and 2 the width in my...
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This is a closeup of Bill Quill's Blue and White Huck Lace Scarf. He used 10/2 cotton. The epi is 36 and the ppi is 24. Bill is a member of the N.W. Weavers Study Group of Las Vegas.
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Bill Quill's 3 Huck Lace Scarves - Green Scarf- silk - set at 30 epi; Black scarf 10/2 cotton set at 24 epi and his Blue and white scarf is 10/2 cotton set at 36 epi and his ppi is 24.
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Hello Huck Weavers, Just wanted to check in. I'm still dealing with the injury (things are much improved!), was at Convergence last week (WOW!!), and I'm about to leave town for two weeks. Please update regarding your progress and discoveries so I can live through your experience in the pleasure...