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Weaving Twills on 4-Shafts

Explore the many ways you can weave twill fabrics using just four shafts, taught by Felicia Lo Wong! The first project in this workshop will be weaving a twill gamp, which is a way for us to experiment with many different variations of twill. And then using the information we learned from making this twill gamp, we’ll design our own project!
Felicia Lo · November 2, 2021
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Welcome to Weaving Twills on 4-Shafts

Explore the many ways you can weave twill fabrics using just 4-shafts, taught by Felicia Lo Wong!

Handwoven twill fabrics have a beautiful drape and can showcase a variety of designs with weft yarn floats that create distinctive diagonal lines. The first project in this Weaving Twills on 4-Shafts workshop is a twill gamp, which is a way for us to experiment with many different variations of twill. And then, using the information we learned from making this twill gamp, we’ll design our own project!

In the course, Felicia makes a series of twill blankets, but you could use the same idea and weave pillows, or a table runner, or a scarf. The twill gamp could be made on a 4-shaft table loom with a 15″ weaving width. The twill blankets can be woven on a 4-shaft floor loom with a 45″ wide weaving width.

Throughout the videos, you’ll learn:

  • The definition and structure of a twill gamp
  • About interlacement
  • The difference between rising sheds & sinking sheds
  • Treadling “tromp as writ”
  • Dressing the loom for the twill gamp
  • Choosing yarn, sett, & calculations
  • Threading & treadling errors
  • Weaving and learning from your twill gamp
  • Planning, designing, weaving, and finishing your twill project

The course materials include further resources for your twill exploration journey. If you don’t have the materials you need, SweetGeorgia Yarns has created a Sample Gamp Kit for this School of SweetGeorgia course.


Talk about the Weaving Twills on 4-Shafts course with members of the School of SweetGeorgia. Post project pictures, share personal reflections, and join the conversations in our Community Forums!


*Be sure to visit our Weaving Study Guide: Twills on 4-Shafts, where we work through the instructions in this course together!


Tag what you are making everywhere with #sosweaving and #schoolofsweetgeorgia!


Reminder to join us online today for the final live lecture presentation in Laura Fry's Fundamentals of Weaving Series, Colour Considerations! We'll be starting at 12:00 PM PDT (3:00 PM EDT), and Laura will talk about considerations to take when weaving with colour, to create designs that work best with your intended cloth. ⁠
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We'll see you online soon!⁠
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#sosweaving #schoolofsweetgeorgia #weaving #weavingworkshop #weaversofinstagram #weaversoftheworld #weavingcloth #handwoven #handwovencloth #weavingloom

Reminder to join us online today for the final live lecture presentation in Laura Fry`s Fundamentals of Weaving Series, Colour Considerations! We`ll be starting at 12:00 PM PDT (3:00 PM EDT), and Laura will talk about considerations to take when weaving with colour, to create designs that work best with your intended cloth. ⁠

We`ll see you online soon!⁠



#sosweaving #schoolofsweetgeorgia #weaving #weavingworkshop #weaversofinstagram #weaversoftheworld #weavingcloth #handwoven #handwovencloth #weavingloom
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The last lecture in master weaver Laura Fry's Weaving Fundamentals series is coming up tomorrow... join Laura for our live lecture presentation Colour Considerations! Laura will talk about considerations to take when weaving with colour, to create designs that work best with your intended cloth. This Zoom lecture and Q&A session is open to all SOS members, and will be recorded and posted at the School following the presentation.⁠
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Follow our link in bio to the entire Weaving Fundamentals lecture series for all of the fabulous information that Laura has shared with us over the past couple of years.⁠
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Colour Considerations Live Lecture with Laura Fry⁠
September 6th, 12:00 PM PDT on Zoom⁠
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#sosweaving #schoolofsweetgeorgia #weaving #weavingworkshop #weaversofinstagram #weaversoftheworld #weavingcloth #handwoven #handwovencloth #weavingloom

The last lecture in master weaver Laura Fry`s Weaving Fundamentals series is coming up tomorrow... join Laura for our live lecture presentation Colour Considerations! Laura will talk about considerations to take when weaving with colour, to create designs that work best with your intended cloth. This Zoom lecture and Q&A session is open to all SOS members, and will be recorded and posted at the School following the presentation.⁠

Follow our link in bio to the entire Weaving Fundamentals lecture series for all of the fabulous information that Laura has shared with us over the past couple of years.⁠

Colour Considerations Live Lecture with Laura Fry⁠
September 6th, 12:00 PM PDT on Zoom⁠



#sosweaving #schoolofsweetgeorgia #weaving #weavingworkshop #weaversofinstagram #weaversoftheworld #weavingcloth #handwoven #handwovencloth #weavingloom
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Coming up in early September will be the final lecture in the Weaving Fundamentals series... join instructor Laura Fry at our live lecture presentation, Colour Considerations! Taking place September 6 at 12:00 PM PDT, Laura will talk about considerations to take when weaving with colour, to create designs that work best with your intended cloth. ⁠
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This Zoom lecture and Q&A session is open to all SOS members, and will be recorded and posted at the School following the presentation if you're unable to make it live. Find more information at the SOS Event Calendar, linked in our IG bio.⁠
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#sosweaving #schoolofsweetgeorgia #masterweaverlaurafry #colorgamp #weaving #handwoven #handwovengamp #weavingwithcolor #weaversofinstagram

Coming up in early September will be the final lecture in the Weaving Fundamentals series... join instructor Laura Fry at our live lecture presentation, Colour Considerations! Taking place September 6 at 12:00 PM PDT, Laura will talk about considerations to take when weaving with colour, to create designs that work best with your intended cloth. ⁠

This Zoom lecture and Q&A session is open to all SOS members, and will be recorded and posted at the School following the presentation if you`re unable to make it live. Find more information at the SOS Event Calendar, linked in our IG bio.⁠



#sosweaving #schoolofsweetgeorgia #masterweaverlaurafry #colorgamp #weaving #handwoven #handwovengamp #weavingwithcolor #weaversofinstagram
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I was trying to weave summer and winter without changing my tie-up… trying to take a short cut and just use the tie-up I had for overshot. But it made it slow, confusing, and inefficient. Just taking a bit of extra time to change the tie-up and also switching out a shuttle that kept catching… now this is weaving so easily and so quickly.

Sometimes it’s better to take the time upfront to stop, reset, and make things right. It just makes everything work better. 

#summerandwinterweaving #learntoweave #weaversofinstagram #weaversgonnaweave #lomeetsloom #counterbalanceloom #leclercloom #sosweaving

I was trying to weave summer and winter without changing my tie-up… trying to take a short cut and just use the tie-up I had for overshot. But it made it slow, confusing, and inefficient. Just taking a bit of extra time to change the tie-up and also switching out a shuttle that kept catching… now this is weaving so easily and so quickly.

Sometimes it’s better to take the time upfront to stop, reset, and make things right. It just makes everything work better.

#summerandwinterweaving #learntoweave #weaversofinstagram #weaversgonnaweave #lomeetsloom #counterbalanceloom #leclercloom #sosweaving
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Blocks!! This is the very start of an exploration into summer & winter on my 4-shaft counterbalance loom. Only two blocks are possible with four shafts, but I can see the possibilities… 

Warp yarn: vennecolcoton 8/2 organic cotton
Pattern weft yarn: ashford_wheels_looms 5/2 mercerized cotton

#summerandwinterweaving #learntoweave #weaversofinstagram #weaversgonnaweave #lomeetsloom #counterbalanceloom #leclercloom #sosweaving

Blocks!! This is the very start of an exploration into summer & winter on my 4-shaft counterbalance loom. Only two blocks are possible with four shafts, but I can see the possibilities…

Warp yarn: vennecolcoton 8/2 organic cotton
Pattern weft yarn: ashford_wheels_looms 5/2 mercerized cotton

#summerandwinterweaving #learntoweave #weaversofinstagram #weaversgonnaweave #lomeetsloom #counterbalanceloom #leclercloom #sosweaving
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Here is a list of materials, equipment and downloads needed for Weaving Twills on 4-Shafts course taught by Felicia Lo.


Downloads


Equipment

  • 4-Shaft loom-minimum 15"/ 38 cm width for cotton gamp.
  • 4-Shaft loom-minimum 20"/ 50 cm width for wool gamp.
  • 4-Shaft loom-minimum 40"/ 102 cm width for blanket.
  • 12 dent reed

*Please follow this link for Warping Equipment & Additional Tools needed


Materials

Cotton Gamp:

  • Warp & Weft: 3 cones of Gist 3/2 Beam, 1 cone in Natural (warp colour), Cobalt (weft colour), and Hibiscus (contrast colour) (630 yd / 576 m per 8 oz / 227 g cone; 1260 ypp; 100% Organic Cotton).

Wool Gamp:

  • Warp & Weft: 3 skeins of SweetGeorgia Yarns BFL+Silk Fine, 1 skein in Birch (warp colour), Trinket (weft colour), and Lollipop (contrast colour) (370 yd / 338 m per 3.5 oz / 100 g skein; 75% Bluefaced Leicester, 25% Silk).

Rosepath Blankets:

  • Warp: 7 cones of Gist 3/2 Beam in Natural (630 yd / 576 m per 8 oz / 227 g cone; 1260 ypp; 100% Organic Cotton).
  • Weft for hems: 1 cone of Maurice Brassard 8/2 Unmercerized Cotton in Natural (1680 yd / 1530 m per 1/2 lb / 227 g cone; 3360 ypp; 100% Cotton).
  • Weft for Dandelion Blanket: 3 cones of Gist 3/2 Beam in Dandelion (630 yd / 576 m per 8 oz / 227 g cone; 1260 ypp; 100% Organic Cotton).
  • Weft for Lighthouse Blanket: 2 sock blanks of SweetGeorgia Yarns Single Sock Yarn Blanks in Lighthouse colour (425 yd / 388 m per 4 oz / 115 g blank; 80% Superwash Merino Wool, 20% Nylon).
  • Weft for Magician Blanket: 2 skeins of SweetGeorgia Yarns Flaxen Silk Fine in Magician (480 yd / 439 m per 4 oz / 115 g skein; 65% Silk, 35% Linen).

Additional Supplies Shown/Demonstrated

  • Iron
  • Sewing machine and thread
  • Additional leash sticks or dowels longer than the width of the project

Do you have questions about Weaving 4-shaft Twill Materials? Talk about it with members of the School of SweetGeorgia. Post project pictures, share personal reflections, and join the conversations in our Community Forums!


 

About Instructor

Felicia Lo

founder + creative director of SweetGeorgia // designer + dreamer // wife + mama // dyer, knitter, spinner, weaver // author + youtuber // been writing about colour and craft since 2004 // has far too many instagram accounts @lomeetsloom, @felicialowong, and @sweetgeorgia.

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Course Includes

  • 8 Lessons