Great picture from the Carolingian Utrecht psalter!

While looking for period tents, a friend came across this picture! I love it :)

It's not every day you see Anglo-saxon women preparing a warp and weaving under a pavilion :)

There is so much to see in this picture.  The women's clothing, the furniture, the pavilion, and the loom. 

It's been a crazy year!

A whole year has passed.  Did I stop making things? No, but I sure didn't post anything.  Between a job change at work, kids, and life it's just been crazy.
I'll try and do a recap.
Due to a super active toddler in the house, setting up my loom has been difficult.  A lovely lady (Thanks Jen!) gifted me with a spinning wheel and I've been working on it to be able to produce warps in the future.  I'm a decent at drop spinning, but time is an issue and I honestly like using the wheel for the same reason I like weaving - it's soothing.
Other than spinning, the majority of my projects have been sewing.
Garb has been seen for family and friends.
I'm almost finished with a men's Elizabethan hat.  While looking at late period things...I got distracted by some drawn thread/pulled thread work.  Made a hanky...started a 2nd :)
I'll hopefully be posting pictures of these various projects soon, as well as pictures from a warp weighted weaving class that I taught last year and one I'll be teaching this weekend. I'm still only working with one heddle bar, but I feel ready to work on harder patterns now that I have a firm grasp on the process and mechanics.
Talk to you all soon!

Well, chalk this piece up to a learning curve.  I was kind of frazzled and in a hurry when I was warping because I just wanted to get something up and weaving on the loom because we were at a demo.  I didn't think very long or very hard about how much warp I truly needed to be sure I had...and I should have.  I also should have known better! Hindsight being 20/20...Oh, well :)
So, I will have to find a use for this piece.  It's roughly 2.5 inches wide by around 52 inches long.  Certainly not long enough for the leg wraps that I originally had in mind.  
That being said, I learned more about how to weave on the loom and I know my next project will be that much better because of it.

I rolled some up...and I can see things I need to work on.

So I've rolled it up some.  It really shows how much draw-in I have at the top which I'm not happy about.  But, since this is only the third time I've warped a wwl, I'm trying not to be to upset about it - just taking note and learning for next time.
My working hypothesis is that I need to weave the header band tighter.  This would cause the warp threads to be closer together and there would be less draw in.  Besides the very first bit, it's still fairly uniform.  I find it harder to stay uniform with the constant stopping and starting, but life makes it necessary.  I'll be done with the current warp by this weekend.  I'll be teaching a class on warp weighted weaving the following weekend - which means the second leg wrap will be started for sure. 

Going to teach a class on warp weighted weaving soon!

I'm starting to get excited about the idea of teaching a class on warp weighted weaving at a local SCA event.  My plan is to hopefully have the Oseburg loom by then so I can have warps in various stages for people to try it out. 

I was thinking of having it set up like this:

One warp on the Oseburg loom so that people can try building the warp and can see the mechanics of it.

One warp sewn onto the Warp Weighted loom so then they can try it out.

We'll start by everyone doing a few passes on the Oseburg loom (hopefully) and then we can move on to the chaining, weaving of heddles, adding weights, and actually weaving.  I guessed that the class part may last about four hours - but I am sure that people will wander in and out as there are many classes happening at the same time.  I think I'll end up doing an overview to start out with and then just keep it going as people have time to pop in and out...and I have to make a handout.

Sometimes reading the stats for this blog are interesting...

I am glad that I started recording things on this blog again as I find that I enjoy looking at the stats and it makes me happy to think that people might be learning more about warp weighted weaving by reading about my meandering path of trial and error.

That being said...

You have to wonder what was happening on May 5, 2014 that 61 people looked at a blog about warp weighted weaving :)

I also find it interesting all of the people from different countries that have viewed the blog.

Here is the breakdown by country so far for the month of May:

United States	144
Sweden	13
Denmark	4
Dominican Republic	4
Australia	3
Czech Republic	3
Germany	3
China	2
Poland	2
Canada	1

I'm ready for my first "roll up"...

 Was able to get some weaving done the beginning of this week.  The weaving is approximately 27" inches long at this point - fairly even (there is one spot I'm not as happy with, but I'm trying to be better about just leaving it and not obsessing about it...) and about 2.5 inches wide...or so (again trying not to obsess..).

I rolled it up some to test and I'm pretty sure I won't have to drop the weights and tie them lower until the next roll up.