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PILLOW -- WOVEN xx PILLOW xx WEAVING Heart-shaped pillow, edged with ruffled lace, is woven from 1/8" wide ribbon. How to weave floor pillows on a frame loom. How to weave a pillow cover from old neckties. Includes instructions for making a nail frame loom. Hand-woven bedcover, pillow and pillow sham. Includes instruction for making a frame loom. Weaving utilizes yarn for warp and yarn and ribbon for weft. Woven ribbon pillow. A tote bag, two shawls, and a pillow that can be woven on a rigid heddle table-top loom. Rose pattern overshot pillow. Plaid plain-weave pillows. An overshot pattern pillow to weave. Requires a 4-harness loom at least 18" wide. Assorted striped pillows with woven fronts and suede cloth backs. Rag pillows woven in tubular double weave. Plaid waffle weave pillows designed to be woven on rigid heddle looms. Three double weave pillows woven tubular in twill and half-basket. Instant rya pillows woven using the Collingwood double corduroy technique. Requires an 18" wide 4-harness loom. Two folk-pattern floor pillows to weave on a rigid-heddle loom. Woven in half-satin with pattern opposites. Includes graphed pattern for pick-up design. Five contemporary-design handwoven pillows. Can be woven on either a two-harness rigid heddle loom or an 8-harness floor loom. Emphasis is on tailored edge finishes. Three tapestry pillows in a desert pattern. Five pillows from one warp. Variations in weft colors and treadlings produce a varied, but coordinated, look. Warp-faced weaving. Part 1. Includes instructions for a table runner and pillow. How to weave weft faced pillows where stripes are created by varying either the color, texture, weight or direction of the weft yarn. Handwoven pillows feature "district check" patterns which are variations of the shepherd's check of the Scottish lowlands. All about pillows. How to select materials, information on construction, and special tips for weavers. Includes instructions on making a bias welt casing. Pillowcase woven with honeycomb on an overshot threading for the border. Pattern can also be used for a companion accent pillow. Pillows that use thrums as the design element. Leftover warp ends are supplementary weft floats. Country overshot weave variations. Includes directions for a tablemat, pillow and wall hanging on a four shaft loom. Weave three twill block and stripe pillows on an eight shaft loom. A pair of pillows are woven in monk's belt, using colors that evoke a Southwest theme. Plaid blanket and pillow woven in a two-twill weave of warp-and weft-faced blocks. Fireside throw and matching pillow are designed to be woven on a narrow loom. A 16" wide warp is used. Stripes in colors and novelty yarns accent the plain-weave fabric. No attempt is made to match the stripes when the separate panels are joined to make a 41" wide throw. An accompanying article gives design suggestions on making wide cloth from narrow panels. The plain-weave pillow is accented by a striped band on one end. Striped pastel throw and coordinated plaid pillow. A look at experiments with nontraditional color arrangements to give block weaves both color and texture effects. Includes instructions for a stole and pillow in crackle weave. Diversified plain weave, a modified plain weave that uses fine and heavy threads in both warp and weft. Fine threads, threaded on shafts 1 and 2, form the ground. Heavy warps threaded on upper shafts form the pattern. Six sample drafts for six through ten shafts are furnished. Includes instructions for two pillows. Pillow front in double weave pickup serves as a sampler for bands of patterns that can be woven on a four-shaft loom. Tapestry pillow, designed by Constance LaLena, is 18" square and features a square-within-a-square motif in bright colors that are created by blending two close shades of yarn. Pillow, 14" square, has a panel on the front woven in honeycomb. Front borders and the pillow back are woven in plain weave. The edges are trimmed with cording. "Pick-and-Pick" pillow creates stripes and checks by alternating weft colors in this weft-faced plain weave project. "Night Sky" pillow uses eight-shaft monk's belt weave to create a weft-faced pattern with horizontal rows of arrow shapes and zigzags. Pique, a woven structure with a quilted appearance. Three types of pique (ribbed, waved and figured) are described. Drafts are included for all three, along with instructions for two pillows made from pique fabrics. One fabric is a seven-shaft waved pique with isolated diamond-shaped motifs. The second is a 12-shaft, single color diamond motif. Four pile techniques. Two are loom-controlled (corduroy and chenille) and two are hand-controlled (rya and boutonne). Includes instructions for (1) Throw rugs woven using commercially produced selvedge strips for warp. (2) Corduroy pillow. (3) Rya pillow. (4) Boutonne pillow. Pillows (16"x16") in plaid are woven in a 3/1 warp-faced twill. "String Yarn" pillow (16"x16") uses a Swedish yarn made up of many strands of fine cotton for weft. The back, with an overlapped opening, is woven in plain weave. Coordinating upholstery and pillow fabrics are woven on a single warp in double weave and variation. Winter Nights pillow in summer & winter weave. Color stripes in the warp correspond to the blocks. Tips from a veteran fiber show juror on pillow finishing, hems, seams and wall hanging constructions. Rumpelstiltskin pillow is woven in a 12-shaft point twill. An undulating-twill four-shaft version also provided. Edges are trimmed with a rope cord made from left-over yarns. Light and Shadow pillow, woven in plain weave, has a diagonal, tapestry like design created with clasped wefts. Plaid pillow with tufted pile made using Sehna knots on a background of plain-weave plaid. Pillows inspired by African baskets. The two 16"-square pillows are woven on four harnesses using dukagang in six-thread units. A trio of linen pillows are woven on a single warp with three different color-and-weave-effect treadlings. Both four- and six-shaft drafts are furnished. Pillow in bird's eye twill is recommended as a project for a beginning weaver. A seam around the pillow 1" from the edge creates a corded edge. Oriental pillow set features three radically different pillows woven on one warp. The largest pillow mimics a carpet design in rolakan tapestry technique. Coordinating neck roll and envelope pillows are woven in 3/1 twill. "Geranium" pillow woven in pick-up broche. Diversified plain weave, similar to summer & winter, has colors in design blocks but the same texture throughout. Three projects demonstrate the versatility of this weave. (1) "Sampler" pillow (9"x10") demonstrates four-shaft diversified plain weave with pattern warp pick-up and pattern weft inlay. (2) An version of the "Sampler" is used, with different treadling and pick-up, is used to weave an "Oriental Rug" (26"x48"). (3) "Mosaic" table mat (12"x18") is woven in an 8-shaft diversified plain weave. Utah Pioneer Pillow. Spinning, weaving and embroidery directions for a pillow based on an embroidered square from an 1869 blanket made by Utah pioneer Sarah Jane Miller. Braid-embellished pillows are handwoven in a texture weave on a broken twill threading. The three pillows are 16" to 18" on a side and are trimmed with slentre braids. Twin-sized checked duvet cover and coordinated striped pillow (18"x29") are woven in double-weave shadow weave. A matching striped mat (25"x33") is woven in single-layer shadow weave. Eight shafts are used for all three. Tapestry pillows. A variation of tubular double weave, woven on a four-shaft loom, creates a woven frame for the tapestry in the top layer. The bottom layer forms the back of the pillow. An assortment of pillows, rugs and table runners to weave. Trio of rya pillows to weave. Ribbon woven pillows look like caning. Four pillows, woven in pattern variations of Rosepath. Dorothy Liebes influence as a textile designer reviewed. Includes a 4-harness twill designed as a pillow cover. Make a tapestry floor cushion (pillow). Three projects on one warp, all with a simple cut pile weave structure: (1) Beach coat. (2) Bath mat. (3) Pillow. Pick-up pique. Fabric has areas of stuffed plain-weave pattern against a pique background. Can be woven on a four-shaft loom with the use of a pick-up stick. Includes instructions and graphs for a pillow. An introduction to four-shaft double weave. Basic instructions, tie-up, four basic forms of cloth and a discussion of warp color choices. Two sample projects are included, a ruana and a tubular pillow. Project ideas for using odds and ends of yarn. Includes instructions for woven pillow. Weaving overshot pillows. Front and back designs are different, but related. Furry accent pillow with bands of plain weave, soumak, rya loops and fur strips. Name draft, an overshot draft designed around a name. Program for the Apple II and TRS-80 computers are included which give draft and drawdown. Includes instructions for weaving name draft pillows. Make a heart pillow with a woven pink and rose heart and a green ribbon border. How to make a pillow cover by weaving ribbons. | |||||||||
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