How to use variegated yarns in your weaving to the best effect.
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- Опубликовано: 15 дек 2024
- Variegated yarns in our weaving can either be absolutely fabulous, or a most awful disappointment. In fact colour in weaving takes a little bit of understanding all around, since the combination of warp and weft yarns creates an effect of colour blending rather than colour matching.
It can be rather confusing, and downright intimidating for a new weaver to get to grips with how colour behaves in a woven textile.
one of the biggest questions regarding colour in weaving centers around the use of varigated or hand-painted yarn skeins - the results can be either totally amazing or terribly disappointing.
Here is a little study on the use of variegated yarns in weaving that I did some time back - I'm delighted to be able to share it with you here, and I hope that it will give you food for thought as far as the use of those very special, unique skeins of yarn are concerned.
Please let me know what you think by leaving a comment below.....
Thank you for this informative lesson. Seeing your samples really helps! 👍👍👍
Thank you, this is one of the best explanations of how to use variegated yarn as well a how colors interact.
So pleased it all made sense!
Thank you so much for this. As a new weaver captivated by hand dyed yarns this was extremely helpful. Seeing the samples was worth gold!
Ah - thank ypu Tim - so pleased you found it useful.
That is one of the best videos. Thank u for doing that. I think most of us have learned the hard way. This is a perfect example especially using the different colors!
Great pleasure - so pleased it was helpful.
As a newer weaver and a spinner, this was very helpful. Thank you
Glad it helped Diana.
Brilliant explanation, this is incredibly helpful! Thank you.
Glad you found it useful!
Thank you Glynis! Such a great explanation 🌿
So pleased you found it useful Rita!
Great sample demonstration ,, would have liked to see the yarns also.
Really like the weaving at the back which may have been a demonstration but is a fine fabric in its self. .. thankyou .
Thank you
Thank you very much!
You're welcome Juanita
Excellent information. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing this information. Very helpful.
You are so welcome!
Thank you for sharing this. Very interesting and informative.
Thanks, this was brilliant.
Great pleasure! Pleased you found it worthwhile.
I weave I guess mostly tapestry, rarely, if ever, do you see the warp unless I make an effort to barely beat. In my case, in order to achieve that washed out effect that you see in your white warped example, I would instead increase the ratio of white picks to variegated (usually something out of 4. More white? 3:1, less white, 1:3). The optimal for me seems to be 2:2.
Interesting question David. Weaving 2 and 2 would give you fairly regular stripes. My instinct would be to keep the number of picks in each colour unbalanced - but I use the word 'instinct' advisadly here as this something that I've never really thought through. I think I feel a colour graduation experiment coming on.....
This is so helpful. I’m prob the odd one here but I like the gentle shifts of color shown on the bottom left blue/purple swatch. Some of my variegated yarns are too harsh and would like a way to tone them down a bit!
I don't think you are the odd one out at all Linda - there are always times when subtle and gentle definitely fit the bill!
So helpful, I’m learning to weave and want to use my hand spun yarn. Did you say your weft is going to be more dominant and showing than your warp?
Yes - it is anoptical illusion butnour weft is generally more visually dominant than the wap - even in a balanced weave.