Success – and exhibition opening

I made another warp, and wove it off (no breaks!) – somewhere I made a mistake, 'cos it was shorter than I had meant. So I wove it as long as possible... using another (more even) wooden reed:



Cut, moistened, mangled, let dry, glued the ends (including a hanging device and something to weight the bottom).
I hung it this morning:





At two o’clock the exhibition opened:



with renaissance music:



More pictures from the exhibition can be found on my other blog.

And, even though there are oodles of water spouts in the mill, I forgot to take a picture...

"Drape"?

Nice to the touch, more drape than I thought, once it had dried:

Maybe I will make another try, there is more than a week ‘til the exhibition opening...

A bonus picture, which by some mysterious happening landed in the wrong folder:

His name is Pádraig O’Neill, Paddy for short (sometimes swedified to Patrik Nilsson)

Spools, again

Well, "quills", I suppose...

Remember the discussion on paper quills? Where both I and Meg confessed we have some Very Old paper quills?

Today, I happened on to a Swedish blog - in this post, at the very bottom, she tells a story: she had been given some old quills, used them to weave upholstery fabric. The two last photos depict both sides of the old (emptied) paper quills... (Note also the differing sizes and shapes!)

Update on the paper experiment: several warps broke, I cut off the few remaining, moistened and mangled. The hand got... interesting - of course no drape, but nice to the touch - but no sticking. I meant to make a new warp today, but did not. Maybe tomorrow. Or maybe not.

HA! - and then: plan B

It wasn't very difficult to do the ties, after all.

I planned an (obviously) very open weave, and intended to add some black (still paper yarn) figures here and there.
The plain weave was ok (sort of; didn't dare try opening the sheds "too much"). So I added a sample figure, in black, in a 2/2 twill.

Hm.

Ok, maybe it would look better later. Did something else for a couple of hours.
It did not look any better.

So: plan B: add some threads here and there, to get a "spaced-and-crammed" variant. As I wasn't very keen on doing all the tying again, I added 4 ends at each selvage, and some in the middle.
Wove a hem of sorts.

Wove the first "window":

When I suddenly saw... (click to enlarge)

I'm back to "now what?", I suppose!

My thoughts were:
I have heard, and can easily believe, that if paper yarn is woven wet (moist, I guess), the weft will stick to the warp by itself.
So I chose the most open wooden reed I had (which, incidentally, is the most open reed I have, regardless of meterial - about 20 dents/10 cm) - it was the most open reed, and it would withstand moisture. A typical win-win, I thought.
Did not bother to count/inspect the whole reed, which means I did not see the dents were more widely spaced on the right side than on the left... (I suppose it is all right for tightly woven rag rugs)

Maybe I will think of a plan C, tomorrow. Or maybe it is just "charming"?

Now what?

It is an experiment. There is an exhibition at the paper mill in a couple of weeks - theme being (of course) "paper".

So I got this paper yarn - flat and not very strong. Could perhaps make a room divider, or something?

Wound, threaded, sleyed... Now to tie on:

I left the problem for tomorrow... I think I may run into tension problems.
Unless, of course, I can find out how to make better knots.