If it's August in Nevada County, it must be time for the County Fair. Several of our members entered woven items in this year's "Wool, Fibers & Textiles". Over the next several posts we'll share the entries.
Betsy wove a rug using from
remnants of gloves in bright colors from the Solmate Sock Company. It is 80% cotton
and 20% nylon.
She also wove a table
runner in blue and black tencel. It’s an
undulating twill with an unusual treadling pattern. The pillow cover is woven using an 8-shaft
shadow weave pattern with variegated rayon weft and tencel warp twill.
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| Table runner |
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| Pillow |
Diana entered a placemat and coordinating napkins. Both the placemat and napkins were weft faced using cotton yarns.
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| placemat |
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| napkins |
She entered two scarves that were woven from hand dyed yarn. The first used a painted warp and included a ribbon in the warp for a little extra pizzazz.
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| scarf 1 |
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| scarf 2 |
The second scarf used a dyed cotton warp that didn't come out quite as Diane expected but the resulting scarf was very nice. The fancy fringe complements the plain-weave structure.
Diana also received a First Prize for a hand towel woven in an extended manifold
twill from a William Bateman manuscript.
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| Towel |
