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Revelations in Rep Weave Results
Kudos to the fabulous weavers who completed the “Revelations in Rep Weave” workshop this March, and thanks for sharing your lovely work!
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Phyllis Demko
Wall hanging in rep weave. 10/2 perle cotton in 5 colors. Approx. 19.5” wide, 36” long.
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Handwoven Study Group
by Lori Rhodes Back in March of 2020 things changed dramatically for all of us. The world experienced a global pandemic and we went into lockdown. I’ve heard that a lot of studios, home offices and closets got cleaned and organized. With “forced” time at home many of us also took time to get reacquainted with our…
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Sharon Grubb
I made this runner in Warp Rep for a friend’s birthday. Her home has gray walls with lots of artwork in bold colors which I used for my inspiration, taking me far outside my usual range of colors. The warp is 8 colors of 5/2 perle cotton; the thick weft is 4 strands of black Peaches…
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From Turned Taquete to Rep Weave
by Peggy Meyers I love rep weave and learned early on from Marie Kulchinski that I could use any overshot design and turn it into 8-shaft rep design. I also learned to think of the “what ifs” from Leslie Killeen. With both of those things in mind, and lots of time for my brain to percolate,…
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Echo & Jin – Results from the Denise Kovnat Workshop
Denise Kovnat taught the “One Warp, Many Structures” Virtual Workshop in October. The class was a lot of fun, and many of us wove off the first warp, added on a second warp, and then wove projects inspired by the class.One of the advantages of the virtual class was that it was spread out over three weeks,…
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Joan Beebe
I decided to make a table runner for a wedding gift, but the bride is all about black/white/gray, and rep weave is usually all about blocks of color. There weren’t enough variations of gray available online to simply swap color for gray. Using the pattern, “My Father’s Daughter: Rug to Runners” from Handwoven Sept/Oct 2019, I wound…
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A Rep Weave Challenge and Exchange
During the year we talked about our plans, our challenges, and our choices. Our exchange took place in January of 2020. Each weaver faced challenges with their own project. The most daunting was the discovery that small floor looms do not necessarily handle very tight setts well. We used several books and journals as resources: Each weaver…
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Sharon Grubb
I followed the pattern for “Little Rep Gems” by Susan E. Horton in the May/June 2014 Handwoven, pp. 42-43. I substituted my own color scheme and improvised the treadling for some of the mats.
