{"id":2624,"date":"2018-09-09T00:02:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T00:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historicweaving.com\/wordpress\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2018-09-09T04:29:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T04:29:06","slug":"testing-of-the-50-shades-of-grey-warp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historicweaving.com\/wordpress\/testing-of-the-50-shades-of-grey-warp\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing of the “50 Shades of Grey” warp"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>I was first inspired by a pen in and ink drawing I saw on Pinterest but in my excitement, I did not capture it and now I can\u2019t get it back in my feed to credit it properly. It was a museum piece from the Bauhaus era, which is why it spoke to me.<\/p>\n

I decided to see if I could weave it on a loom, specifically on a 4 or 8 shaft loom.<\/p>\n

Turns out it was very possible. I did the sample twice on the warp you see here, once in plain weave and again using a straight twill. The twill I think most closely matches the look I was going for.<\/p>\n

There are many more experiments to try. Clasped weft (black and white), color substitution in weft, Solid color in weft. It goes on and on, and no two will be alike.<\/p>\n

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I was first inspired by a pen in and ink drawing I saw on Pinterest but in my excitement, I did not capture it and now I can\u2019t get it back in my feed to credit it properly. It was a museum piece from the Bauhaus era, which is why it spoke to me. I… Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[194,148,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-design-project","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2H0sI-Gk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historicweaving.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historicweaving.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historicweaving.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historicweaving.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historicweaving.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/historicweaving.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2815,"href":"https:\/\/historicweaving.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions\/2815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historicweaving.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historicweaving.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historicweaving.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}