#(( overshot

[batbetbitbotbut]

My first time doing clasped weft technique! It's slow but so so striking! It has unsquared my overshot but I'm treating that as a feature this time.

You throw the shuttle in from one side, loop it round your second yarn and throw it back through the same shed to pull the second yarn into the cloth....

.... And then you beat very very slowly and carefully while pulling on each yarn to get the colour change exactly where you want it, and then you carry on and admire/curse your result. It's an absolute bastard to unweave.

For these colours I am making a zigzag between them, but for my next pair of colours (blue and orange) I will do something else.

[freckledfiber]

I went to post this on another platform, but their app keeps crashing and I'm not in the mood to deal with it, so please have it as my first original post on this account!

Baby's first overshot is going well, *except* the tension on this handspun alpaca warp is absolutely atrocious. I'm not sure yet what happened to it, but I'll keep weaving until I can't anymore or until something snaps. 😅😬

[loomingtranssexual]

fun fact: a minute of clickity clackity loom noises per day is good for your health

[aeide]

weaving in fragments

edit to add the sampler now off the loom:

[ginneke]

It's been a long time coming, but I finally have a project on a bigger loom than my sampleit. Hoping to get 2 squares and a narrow runner out of this, if all goes to plan.

Pattern: Bloom Table Squares by Gist Yarn.

(Image ID: the start of an overshot weaving project on a table loom. The pattern is formed by thick green cotton yarn on a background of brown linen.)

[foolfen]

[hlahlahlahlahly]

First attempt at overshot. I'm struggling to have nice edges, but the pattern is pretty neat.

[mmagpye]

weaving draft, c.1800, contributed to John Landes