Painted warp

Christine Tsai on Instagram: "How many times did my hands touch this warp before it was finished? Hundreds probably. Winding the warp. Stretching, wrapping and Oops unwrapping and rewrapping ikat tape. Scouring and squeezing. Dipping into indigo, one, two, six times. Rinsing and swinging one, two, six times. Rinsing and rinsing. Unwrapping. Warping the loom (presleying, shifting, Oops reshifting and reshifting, tying and Oops untying and retying knots, threading, sleying, tying and Oops

Using Reactive Dyes, I tried to screen print a cotton warp. Some of the threads obviously slipped when I put in onto the loom but it wasn't bad for a first atempt and using differnt coloured wefts, interesting effects were achieved.

Want the beauty of a hand painted warp but don’t have the space or equipment required? In this class we will explore different methods of painting your warp (and perhaps the weft) using fabric paints.

Only a bit of weaving today on the scarf warp - my back is bothering from way too much walking over the weekend on the coast........2 long w...

A blog about weaving, dyeing, knitting, spinning, sewing, and the related fiber arts.

I love the interaction of color and fiber! My work focuses on using a lot of space dyed warps. Fall is my favorite season …the turning leaves, the cool air and excitement of football games in a Friday night and the anticipation of the holiday season.

Weaving is like painting in some ways. Your warp and weft colors are like tubes of paint, giving you basic colors to start with. Your draft is like your palette and brush, where you take your original paint colors, mix them into new colors, and then place them in your fabric. Often, when we think about color in weaving, we think only about the colors of the yarns we choose. But this is like thinking only about the colors in your paint tubes. We also need to think about how the drafts will…

Warp & Weft Flatweaves - Ikats