I got this really cool scarf the other day because of its lovely pattern. photo attached^1. i love the bright colours on the stripes (plaid weave?) in contrast with the black motif. and it’s reversible!
i’ve been wearing it as a scarf and shawl, with a conker used to bunch the fabric and then secured with bootlace as an old-fashioned toggle. its very warm, and thanks to the pattern it’s very stylish.
do you have any cool scarves?
hope you’re all doing well,
mags :))
1^also showing off my very pattern-adjacent bedspread, quilted by my dad’s mum (rip Jean) in like the… 90s? it does repeat, but on a very large scale. i love it. and stripey woven carpet, that’s a pattern. anyway.
oh yeah, forgot to say that i love the concept of underdetermining Lea introduces. I hadn’t heard of that before (any further reading?)
it feels very resonant to from-scratch livecoding or improvising in key and in a tradition because even though what you can do is very tightly controlled, what actually happens is continually surprising. at least that’s how i see it, and i think it rhymes with how i hear alex and lucy describe their livecoding practice.
i really love that capacity for/sensation of surprise, i think it’s something i tend to chase.
A lovely pattern! It’s called houndstooth or dogtooth and is very old – ancient. I recommend looking into how it is usually woven - it is a weird angular pattern but actually arises from stripes if I remember correctly! Although this looks like it isn’t woven the normal way because it isn’t tessellating - but via something like doubleweave?? Hopefully a weaver will pass by and explain.
Looks like space invaders! I think the houndstooth weave technique depends on the scale it’s woven at, smallest/simplest is a 2/2 twill - the 8th example on our warp weighted loom sim (click on the ‘?’ to see how it’s made):
Plans are afoot to do a tablet weaving workshop in Sheffield, at some point next year though (although maybe Alex will do it sooner).
