This project was a learning experience from two perspectives, I will learn a lot about colour interaction from the finished gamp. I also learned a lot about weaving with 2 heddle and particularly weaving a 2/1 twill on 2 heddles.
This project started as a huck lace sett at 12 epi. However I decided that I was most likely to use the rest of my shetland wools for re-enactment, so I decided to go with a 2/1 twill. That meant that I needed to figure out how to do a 2/1 twill on 2 heddles. Doing so was a rather long journey, but in the end I discovered that in doing so, I could sett the thread at 15 epi using 2 10 epi heddles, which is the appropriate sett for a shetland wool.
After rolling the thread onto the back beam, I noticed that I put the red in the completely wrong place! How did that happen, I know my colour wheel! Well I forged on threading the back heddle and now I’m winding the wapr onto the front heddle to get the threads in the right order. Then I’ll wind them onto the back beam again before threading the front heddle and beginning weaving! This is a slow process as the wool constantly sticks to itself and is not now the proper width on the back beam, from the change in sett. But slow and steady will win this race. So I will soldier on and hopefully be rewarded with a gorgeous colour gamp shawl that will allow me to plan many other cool shawls for re-enactment and cool fabrics for hoods and eventually…. perhaps a tunic gasp!