Laura Fry Weaving Studio
Group Sample page | Posted: October 12, 2007 - 23
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| The samples displayed on this page are for the exclusive use of Laura's Study Group |
| Towel 5 | Posted: August 22, 2008 - 64
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| Changing colour to blue, towel 5 | 
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| Towel 4 | Posted: August 22, 2008 - 63
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| Here is the fourth towel. | 
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| Third tea towel | Posted: August 21, 2008 - 62
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| The second towel was a straight twill progression of the blocks - the third combined the advancing progression with straight. | 
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| First towel | Posted: August 19, 2008 - 61
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| First towel on the warp. | 
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| More "therapy" towels | Posted: August 18, 2008 - 60
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| Threading the loom. | 
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| Herringbone twils | Posted: August 6, 2008 - 59
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| Simple herringbone/Dornick twill draft | 
four shaft draft |
| Samples! | Posted: June 18, 2008 - 58
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| The plastic bucket has the loom state samples, the pile of fabric to the left is wet finished, ready to be cut up. | 
lots of samples |
| GO! | Posted: June 16, 2008 - 57
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| With about 20 inches woven, it's time to take a break and think about dinner. | 
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| Next step | Posted: June 16, 2008 - 56
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| Ready, steady............. | 
ready to weave |
| Sample warp | Posted: June 16, 2008 - 55
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| Here is the Fanny with the warp beamed and threaded. | 
threaded, ready to sley |
| Mohair loop | Posted: June 11, 2008 - 54
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| Working on the mohair loop samples for CDWeaver. You can see how loosely the web has been woven. | 
mohair loop on Fanny |
| next towel | Posted: June 1, 2008 - 53
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| Here is the next treadling - twill blocks, using the 40/2 linen. It's really hard to take a photo of white on cream, so hopefully you can see this...... | 
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| Back to work! | Posted: May 31, 2008 - 52
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| The warp is 20/2 cotton with a fine linen singles for weft. Since I wasn't sure I had enough to do a specific treadling repeat, I'm just doing an advancing twill sequence which I can begin and end at any point. | 
well, it's a start! |
| fabric woven on counter blanced loom | Posted: April 11, 2008 - 51
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| This fabric was woven on four shafts in a 1:2 twill by treating shaft four as though it were shaft 3. The tie up was: 1+2
2+3+4
1+3+4 Treadling was a point progression | 
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| counter balanced weaving | Posted: April 11, 2008 - 50
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| My experiment weaving an unbalanced weave on a counter balanced loom with rollers. The shed was large and clear, although it tended to "float" a little bit above the bottom of the reed, so I did have to be a bit carefully throwing the shuttle. | 
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| Spring 2008 Weaving challenge 1 | Posted: April 11, 2008 - 49
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| Overshot table runner using 10/2 cotton, natural and Fox Fiber brand naturally coloured yarns. | 
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| Spring Weaving Challenge 2 | Posted: April 11, 2008 - 48
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| Placemats woven with 3/2 Perle cotton for warp, cotton boucle for weft. Four shaft "goose eye" pattern. | 
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| Spring 2008 Weaving Challenge 3 | Posted: April 11, 2008 - 47
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| Rep weave on four shafts. Warp is linen 16/2, weft is Mini string #18 for the thick, 16/2 cotton for the thin. | 
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| Spring 2008 Weaving Challenge 4 | Posted: April 11, 2008 - 46
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| Woven on 8 shafts from 8/2 cotton warp, linen weft, set at 24 | 
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| Spring 2008 Weaving Challenge 5 | Posted: April 11, 2008 - 45
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| Double weave place mats. Yarn is 22/2 cottolin. Woven on 8 shafts. The ends have been woven longer, then turned back to make a very neat and tidy "hem". | 
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| Linen tea towel | Posted: January 22, 2008 - 44
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| This is the towel on the loom - 2/20 mercerized cotton warp at 32 epi, singles 20 linen weft at 32 ppi. |
| Marie's rug | Posted: January 20, 2008 - 43
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| Here is a picture of the rug Marie was talking about. You can see the "tufts" used as decoration. | 
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| Waffles, one more time | Posted: January 10, 2008 - 42
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| After a thread on a chat group about "scallops" and relly *looking* at my dishcloth, I wove one last tea towel on my 2/20 merc. cotton warp. The stripes between the waffle areas are 2:2 twill. The pop up shows a little bit closer view and you can see the twill areas are ruffling. The overall dimensions changed from 40" off loom to 36" long and 22.5" to 18.5" wide. | 
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| Click here for popup | | waffle with 2/20 merc cotton weft | Posted: January 6, 2008 - 41
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| Interesting - the 2/20 weft did not take up nearly as much - the dimples are shallower, and the floats seem to be more "thready". This fabric is less integrated than the sample using the 2/16. | 
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| Isabelle's draft woven and finished | Posted: January 4, 2008 - 40
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| The draft Isabelle supplied worked very well to create deep dimples in the fabric. I'll try to do one more with 2/20 cotton as weft at the end of the warp. | 
loom state above, finished below |
| Double face fabric | Posted: December 31, 2007 - 39
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| This is an example of a double-faced fabric. If the warp is finer than the wefts, nearly complete coverage can be achieved. | 
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| Sheila's curtains | Posted: December 31, 2007 - 38
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| This is a picture of Sheila C in her living room with the smaller of the two curtains. She lined them with insulating lining to help with blocking the sun. | 
Sheila adjusting her curtains |
| Click here for popup | | Isabelle's waffles | Posted: December 27, 2007 - 37
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| This draft especially intrigues me because of the ability of the pink ends on shaft 1 to *really* shift to areas of least resistance. I think that weaving this draft one would have to set the fabric much higher than one would normally, even for waffle weave. I hope I can try this out and see if my intuition is correct. :) | 
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| Sheila's waffles | Posted: December 27, 2007 - 36
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| Click on the pop up for Sheila's second draft.... | 
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| Click here for popup | | Susan's Waffles | Posted: December 27, 2007 - 35
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| Here is Susan's draft.... | 
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| Matt's waffles | Posted: December 27, 2007 - 34
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| Here is Matt's draft.... | 
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| Waffle on four | Posted: December 5, 2007 - 33
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| This is a more usual diamond shaped waffle weave on four shafts. | 
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| Waffle on six shafts | Posted: December 5, 2007 - 32
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| This draft shows an unusual waffle weave - waffle is most commonly seen as diamonds. This draft shows rectangles. You can do diamonds on six shafts as well. Study the four shaft waffle and see if you can design your own 6 shaft waffle weave. | 
six shaft draft |
| Jennifer's placemats | Posted: November 28, 2007 - 31
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| The pop up shows the on loom hemstitching | 
on the loom |
| Click here for popup | | Fibonacci | Posted: November 14, 2007 - 30
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| Here is a file on the Fibonacci sequence. It is a pdf format so hopefully everyone can download it okay
Click here to read the .PDF | 
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| Off the loom | Posted: October 17, 2007 - 29
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| This mound of woven proto-cloth (it isn't wet finished yet) is about 13.5 yards. | 
my work table with web |
| Click here for popup | | Skirt fabric | Posted: October 13, 2007 - 28
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| here is the skirt fabric on the loom - there are stripes of red/blue/red/green separated by 3 picks of white | 
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| Wonky warp | Posted: October 12, 2007 - 27
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| Notice this warp - gap in the middle and definitely *not* centred! | 
no you're not seeing things! |
| Sleyed warp | Posted: October 12, 2007 - 26
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| The gaps in the warp are no longer in evidence as the warp is now spread evenly in the reed. The breast beam has been removed for ease of threading and sleying and will be put back now so that I can tie on. | 
warp spread in reed |
| My loom | Posted: October 12, 2007 - 25
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| This view on the angle shows the four box fly shuttle mechanism. | 
angle view |
| Bronson Lace | Posted: October 13, 2007 - 24
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| This has been changed to a .PDF format so any one with Adobe Reader can view it.
Click here to read the .PDF |
| Turned twill blocks | Posted: October 8, 2007 - 20
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| This is an example of turned twill blocks. Blocks can be any size, with the minimum being 4 threads. | 
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| Slip knot | Posted: October 6, 2007 - 19
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| If the slip knot won't pull out by pulling on the tail, push the knot away from you with your left hand | 
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| more slip knot | Posted: October 6, 2007 - 18
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| If you are dealing with a very textured yarn, sometimes you have to coax it - hold the bout by the tail in your right hand, then "cage" the knot and gently pull the knot undone using the tips of your left hand fingers. | 
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| Danish design | Posted: September 16, 2007 - 16
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| Liz asks how one might use a design such as this - I'm assuming that it could represent a chart for a drawloom, or for pick up (opphamta). | 
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| Miniature overshot towels | Posted: September 13, 2007 - 15
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| Found two of the towels I used to make. :) The beige/orange one has a silk novelty as pattern weft. The yarn is quite firm and makes a great sauna towel. It's almost like a loofa. The other is woven with a cotton chenille for pattern weft. The warp is2/20 merc. cotton at 30 epi. When I was feeling really adventurous I would weave a border at each end with the overshot pattern, and the rest of the towel would be in a stripe as seen in the photo.
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| Twill 4 | Posted: September 10, 2007 - 14
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| This draft shows straight and broken twill in threading and weaving | 
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| Twill 3 | Posted: September 10, 2007 - 13
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| This draft shows basket weave selvedges for twill | 
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| Twill | Posted: September 10, 2007 - 11
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| This is a draft of straight twill. | 
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| Crimp | Posted: August 30, 2007 - 10
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| It has been my understanding that applying compression to a textile adds stability to it, but had no proof. Well, this probably isn't "proof" exactly, but thought it was interesting. I hope that the photo shows up the difference in the yarn well enough so that you can see it. The two threads are from the same textile - both tow linen. The bottom thread was pulled from the textile after it had been through the washing machine and dryer, but not pressed. The top thread was pulled from the textile after it had been hard pressed. You should, I hope, just be able to see that the top thread has much sharper bends in it - the bottom thread has more waves. The fabric that was pressed gave up the sample thread much less willingly - I had to tug at it harder. | 
before and after |
| Towel 5 | Posted: August 26, 2007 - 9
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| Towel #5 Warp: 8/2 merc. cotton alternating with a blue cotton flake Weft: cottolin EPI: 24
PPI: 24 | 
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| Towel 1 | Posted: August 26, 2007 - 8
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| Towel #1 Warp and weft: New World's Organic 10/2 cotton in natural and loden green
EPI: 24
PPI: 20 | 
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| Towel 2 | Posted: August 26, 2007 - 7
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| Towel #2 Warp: probably rayon approx. 16/2 (cotton size)
Weft: cotton boucle' of unknown origin approx. 12/2 (cotton) - used doubled EPI: 25
PPI: approx. 12.5
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| Towel 3 | Posted: August 26, 2007 - 6
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| Towel #3 Warp and weft: 8/2 cotton and a slub, possibly rayon | 
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| Towel 4 | Posted: August 26, 2007 - 5
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| Towel #4 Warp: 10/2 merc. cotton
Weft: 16/2 cotton for tabby, cotton flake for pattern | 
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| Towel 6 | Posted: August 26, 2007 - 3
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| Towel #6 Warp: 10/2 natural cotton Weft: 16/2 rust cotton and natural cotton flake EPI: 30
PPI: approx. 21 | 
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| Towel7 | Posted: August 26, 2007 - 2
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| Towel #7 Warp: 10/2 Perle cotton in navy and purple
Weft: 8/2 Tencel in red/purple and 5/2 Perle cotton EPI: 24
PPI: 20 (counting the Tencel) | 
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| Tencel | Posted: August 16, 2007 - 1
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| This is a microscopic view of Tencel | 
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| Towel 3 | Posted: August 26, 2007 - 6
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| Towel #3 Warp and weft: 8/2 cotton and a slub, possibly rayon |
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| Towel 4 | Posted: August 26, 2007 - 5
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| Towel #4 Warp: 10/2 merc. cotton
Weft: 16/2 cotton for tabby, cotton flake for pattern |
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| Towel 6 | Posted: August 26, 2007 - 3
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| Towel #6 Warp: 10/2 natural cotton Weft: 16/2 rust cotton and natural cotton flake EPI: 30
PPI: approx. 21 |
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| Towel7 | Posted: August 26, 2007 - 2
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| Towel #7 Warp: 10/2 Perle cotton in navy and purple
Weft: 8/2 Tencel in red/purple and 5/2 Perle cotton EPI: 24
PPI: 20 (counting the Tencel) |
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