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Showing posts with label Gebrochene. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gebrochene. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 4, 2026

How to 'Downsize' a 14-Shaft Pattern for 8 Shafts... and even 4 Shafts

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Let's start with just one draft, because -- while these principles can apply to many designs -- I recently had to downsize a point-twill...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Echo... Echo... Echo on 8 Shafts

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It all started with Handweaving.net, as I'm guessing it does for many of us.  One of the easiest ways to create an Echo design is to loo...
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Sunday, December 18, 2022

This Pattern Is More than 400 Years Old... with a Few Changes

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 It all starts with a 1626 portrait of John Erskine, 2nd Earl of Mar and Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, painted by Adam de Colone.  The pa...
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Sunday, September 18, 2022

What's on the Loom?

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More accurately, what's going on the loom? At this writing, I'm in the process of winding on a painted warp for a Jin design on 28 ...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Titian, Caravaggio, El Greco, Velázquez, Rembrandt, Chagall... and Linen Tablecloths

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Titian, The Supper at Emmaus , circa 1530 Analysis of the pattern of the tablecloth in the painting, courtesy of Helena Loermans A weaving d...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Gebrochene, Echo and Jin with Fiberworks: Putting 'The Earl' Through His Paces

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Ah, the old  Weaver's  magazine... such an endless source of inspiration! Recently, I was looking at an issue from 1997 and came upon a ...