Denise is a weaver, dyer and “free-range seamstress” who loves painted warps, collapse techniques, and extended parallel threadings — all to make colorful, textured cloth used in garments for teaching, shows and sales. Her pieces have been juried into the HGA Convergence fashion shows since 2008.
Echo Weave is not a structure on its own. It uses a parallel threading technique. It takes one line of threading and doubles it with an “echo” on another pair of shafts. Usually woven in 4 colors for interesting patterns and iridescence. Jin is the correct term for Turned Taquete, which has been used for 2000 years. Jin is “warp-faced compound tabby.” It’s warp-faced because of the 3-pick-long warp floats on both sides of the fabric.
– Ellen
In the workshop weavers worked with three Echo tie-ups and treadlings and three Jin tie-ups and treadlings.
Silk weft in JinTencel weft in EchoFrom Ellen: Finished scarves from the Echo and Jin Workshop woven in Falling Stars pattern with 10/2 bamboo warp in two colors.
Silk weft in EchoSue: My sampler is Falling Stars. Here it is off the loom showing all the Echo and Jin treadlings I used.Here are two areas of Sue’s sampler in closeup: The warp is 5/2 dark and light green, and the weft is 10/2 blue.
From Shelby: I added an additional two yards of warp and wove this scarf at the end of class. I had a four-color warp in yellow, red, turquoise and dark green, and the weft was orange. This was an Echo pattern, but I combined a couple of the drafts that we were supplied with to add the lozenges at the border of the scarf.From Shelby: I added an additional two yards of warp and wove this scarf at the end of class. I had a four-color warp in yellow, red, turquoise and dark green, and the weft was orange. This was an Echo pattern, but I combined a couple of the drafts that we were supplied with to add the lozenges at the border of the scarf.Margie: The patterns, which are readily visible when you are looking at them firsthand, do not show up well through the camera lens. The Jin patterns just were not visible at all through the lens. I left the edging on the one with yellow weft to show the color of the warp (green, red, orange and blue) which was the same for both pix, and the effect of the weft on that color. They are both Chakras patterns in Echo. Great class with lots of added tips and tricks!Falling Stars in Echo1Falling Stars in Echo 2Falling Stars in Echo 3Falling Stars in Jin 4Falling Stars in Jin 5Falling Stars in Jin 6Betty: Falling Stars in three Echo treadlings. followed by 3 Jin treadlings.
The photos and information on the workshop are from the weavers who participated. Thank you!
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