![]() ![]() What a job! Not everyone can manage it and those who can’t will pay someone to convert a cone of thread into singles. I was told that in some communities in Chiapas, Mexico where this kind of cloth is also produced, some of the weavers divide 20/2 commercially-spun cotton into singles and use that as their warp threads. The thread they use is much much finer than the cotton singles that I have. I am trying to replicate the structure used by weavers in the Alta Verapaz region of Guatemala…a base of open balanced weave into which they place patterns using supplementary weft. You can just catch of glimpse of it at bottom right in the picture above. Of course, I first wove a small sample for this open and airy balanced-weave that I want to do. This same thread has broken multiple times and so I guess and hope that it was just one section of this particular strand that was more loosely twisted than the rest. Breakages?! I hadn’t even started weaving yet! I did not want to have to size this warp and I am glad I didn’t panic and do so as, so far, I have only had one thread break while weaving. It was a little worrying while re-tying the cotton ends to have some of them untwist and break as I attempted to pull and tighten the knot. ![]() I threaded the reed for the project for which I am using some hand spun cotton that I picked up from this lady in Guatemala in 2008. I do, in fact, have plans for both wool and silk projects for the next few months but hopefully my a/c will be up and running again by the time I get around to them. Silk thread is not pleasant stuff either in sweaty fingers. I usually find myself at this hotter time of year weaving something totally inappropriate, like a wool lap blanket. With the temperature around 91 F and a broken air conditioner, it’s just as well that I have decided to weave something light and airy as my first big project for this season.
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