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An Experiment in Doubleweave

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The Warpsters Study Group is beginning a study of doubleweave.  Most of us are using Jennifer Moore’s Doubleweave book as inspiration.  This book gives us instructions for creating:

  • 4 harness doubleweave samplers
  • 8 harness doubleweave samplers
  • 4 harness double rainbow sampler
  • 8 harness double rainbow sampler
  • and a host of other fabulous projects

Most group members are working on samplers at the moment.  Sharon Grubb has already made a beautiful doubleweave shawl using 20 Lunatic Fringe Spectrum colors.

The pictures below show just a bit of our early exploration.  
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Jane Patterson’s sampler in progress

Phyllis Demko’s finished sampler

Sharon Grubb’s 8H doubleweave sampler
Sharon Grubb’s spectacular shawl

After completing Jennifer Moore’s Double Rainbow workshop Sharon was inspired to weave her Full Spectrum shawl.  It is a two-block doubleweave in 10/2 perle cotton that rotates the 20 Tubular Spectrum colors in both warp and weft.   The colors rotate through the warp with 4 colors in each 1” block, using her double rainbow technique in which each time you change the block, you drop the first color and add a new one.  

Janice Kohl’s sampler going on the loom
Pattie Lamb’s 8 harness sampler

A Double Rainbow Sampler going onto the loom

Janice’s sampler in progress

There is more to come!  Tune in again later for more photos as we make more progress.

​–Pattie Lamb

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