The March meeting was at Gus home and since the group always likes to check out what is on the host's loom, I thought I would start with these pictures of her current warp. This is handspun silk, folks. Both in the warp and the weft. Gus spun this silk over the past five years and gathered it all together for weaving yardage for a shell top.
Look at the waterfall of blue silk over the back beam. Simply gorgeous. The picture below is more of the silk waiting to be woven.
Gus showed us a pillow that was pieced together from samples she wove in a deflected double weave class. The pillow backing and the piping are handwoven plain weave to coordinate with the pillow colors. The different designs are simply the reverse side of the cloth put together in a traditional nine patch design.
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