Today's card weaving

As you see, I chronicle my learning curve, complete with bloopers, this being a full transparency blog.

Art is about learning, and I think it's fair to show it in progress, not just hide the struggles and hair tearing, and just show the best. Exhibits are for showing your best, but studio posts are about the hard bits.

The last card weaving was a struggle. As you saw from the wobbly product. The current one has mysteries in it, but is a big improvement.

Yesterday involved hours of getting the cards wrongly threaded, dealing with several rats nests of  consequences, and being so worried that I might be losing my ability to do this at all, that at least I hadn't set fire to a cathedral was a thought that crossed my mind. I can say that, now that we know it's fixable. The cathedral, that is. My card weaving still a maybe.

Anyway I started all over this morning from scratch, rethreaded,  and it went very much better. As you see.

I tried a numbering idea, thanks to Mittens, after a turn, thimble on numeral one, then pass, beat. Until the four numerals were covered with thimbles,  then move the thimbles over,  ready to the other turn column, and go from there.  Again a four forward, four back pattern till I get the hang of it.

I probably still made a few slips on turning, because the design changes twice! But I still think it's pretty creditable. It's my own design, and turns out to have two sides, great surprise.

At this point, the bookmark is my learning mechanism, enough warp to contend with for now.  Plenty of scope for improvement.

The tiny tapestries are moving on nicely, two floors down from the card weaving maelstrom. So there's that. And I have a grest design ideas for my next four selvedge tapestry, so I have to get on with that improved jig.

Aside from that, Mrs Lincoln, nothing going on in the studio.