I'm starting to weave a series of scarves for a Christmas Fair. I am using an organic cotton warp and either spun silk or tussah silk weft. They are three colours with one or several stripes in a plain weave. This has been a good refresher for me, as I haven't woven for awhile.
To create perfect selvedges there is a technique I learned from Jane Stafford. After weaving on a counterbalance, a countermarch and jack loom, I have to say it is not as easy to weave like this on a jack loom. Throw your shuttle and hold your thread on the bobbin taunt, beat with an open shed, then change your treadle. If you are weaving a scarf and want a fabric that drapes, open your weave structure and look at and make sure you have an open weave, holes (that are square). The edge you create is a tighter weave structure and will hold your fabric together. When you wash the fabric the holes will disappear as the threads fall into place.
I am using 2/8 organic cotton and 2/20 tussah silk at 17 EPI. Jane recommends 16 EPI, but my reed won't accommodate this, so 17 is as close as I can get.
To create perfect selvedges there is a technique I learned from Jane Stafford. After weaving on a counterbalance, a countermarch and jack loom, I have to say it is not as easy to weave like this on a jack loom. Throw your shuttle and hold your thread on the bobbin taunt, beat with an open shed, then change your treadle. If you are weaving a scarf and want a fabric that drapes, open your weave structure and look at and make sure you have an open weave, holes (that are square). The edge you create is a tighter weave structure and will hold your fabric together. When you wash the fabric the holes will disappear as the threads fall into place.
I am using 2/8 organic cotton and 2/20 tussah silk at 17 EPI. Jane recommends 16 EPI, but my reed won't accommodate this, so 17 is as close as I can get.