Weaving the Vines on The Mountain Cucumber Coverlet Video

 

Weaving the Cucumber Vines (aka Worms) on The Mountain Cucumber Coverlet Video [17 min.]

 

I wanted to do a little video of weaving the "worms" (aka cucumber vines) section of the Mountain Cucumber Coverlet, so you could see the pattern emerge in the cloth with every shot of the shuttle.  Every weaving project has it's own requirements and it can be a useful to have a recording like this.

This particular pattern is overshot, meaning every shot of the blue wool pattern weft is followed by a shot of cream cotton in plain weave to hold it all together.  I use the beads to tell me what foot pedals (treadles) to push for the blue pattern threads.  The white tabby always follows the pattern thread and in the pedal farthest to that respective side, so I don't need beads for that -- In case you may be wondering why I move the beads only every other shot.

I am beating each shot twice.  Once with an open shed, and again with a closed shed.  As I said -- every project has different requirements, and that is what this one calls for.

The video also gives an idea of how I use the treadle beads, even if you can't see my feet moving underneath.   Each bead tells me what treadle to push for each shot in the sequence.  Once I through that shot, I push the bead to the left and move onto the next one in sequence -- although this project had so many treadle changes, I did not bother to list the tabby shots -- Those are givens.  They always follow behind the pattern shot, so I know which treadle to push.   For me, the treadle beads were a game-changer as far as keeping track of treadle changes.  I rarely make a mistake on that now!  

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Some might think this is a boring video of someone weaving, but there's a place for things like this -- the regular sounds can act like white noise and be quite comforting -- as it is when I'm in the groove weaving.  If you don't have the patience for it, feel free to skip ahead and see the pattern that emerges at the end of the sequence.

Enjoy!

 

For the record, we had to make a gibbet for my iphone to take the video from overhead.  This is it! Nothing fancy, but servicable.