More Triloom Shawls and a Triloom Color Gamp

 I have been working on this cotton shawl one for a while and so was happy to have it finished. It is cut strand, two strands of cotton, one a bit slubby. Done on my lace sett with a 5 foot hypotenuse.

Yeah, barefoot in January  in the new house backyard. It was chilly, but I got Mom to walk into the backyard to do the photos (good for her balance)...

My wonderful Fiber Guild, Fiber Guild of the Savannahs, is doing a gamp study. I was wondering how a "gamp" might look on the triloom. Again, on the lace sett 5 foot triloom, cut strand technique. This one went quickly. I chose some rainbow sort-of colors at the LYS, Unwind. (In Savannah where I've moved, I actually have two LYS. How great is that?)  This is a Jody Long yarn called "Andeamo" created from wool and alpaca.

I think that people really enjoy looking at color and at rainbows. I will do another of these.  

Here's a definition of a gamp from Lunatic Fringe: 

I like the result...she's quite warm

Cut-Strand Tri-Loom Shawls

 I have been a busy continuous strand weaver this year. Now semi retired, I have more time. But I am discovering that the secret of semi retirement is using one's time well.  I've finished some things. I discovered the cut-strand technique on the "Tri-Loom and Continuous Strand Weavers" Facebook Group. You simply loop the strand of yarn over the hypotenuse nail and weave on the weaving side and tie it on each side. Each strand is the same length so you can pre-cut. I am Ms. Spontaneous so I never do. 

Here is the first one that I did last year; this technique was a revelation.  I used leftover wool and did the twisty-braid thing on the ends.  Strand were doubled and quadrupled to get a thickly woven fabric. Five foot hypotenuse on my standing loom. 

Below is another five foot hypotenuse shawl done on my standing loom in various yarns. I do love those colors that are close on the color wheel,  aka analogous colors, in this case red-orange with some pink-yellow tones. Most yarns are multicolored in that range, some handspun.  

I found a fun way to photo things on my antique hall tree.

I came up with a way  to loop the yarns at the top nail and weave one way with one color and the other way with the other; creating a checkerboard effect. 

This one is all handspun from silk and polwarth from  https://frabjousfibers.com/, done on my four foot hypotenuse table triloom. It's very soft.

A Trio of Triloom Cowls

I don't like the word "cowl" which I think is a modern concept for a neck warmer; the original garment referred, according to wikipedia, to the hood of a monk's garb. I also don't like "shawlette" but these are one or the other! All of these are recent FO's. I was happy that my friend was willing to model them. I added buttons to all to make them easy to keep on...

All are done on my "lace dent" Triloom by Jim who makes fine looms.  His looms are available on ebay.

This one is doubled over loopy mohair; you can't see the fine gold thread running through part of it

I got spontaneous with this one and did a lace pattern, clasping the threads after weaving it.  This is mohair. I am fond of both loopy and nonloopy mohair for triloom weaving as it does not smoosh apart (i.e. loose the evenness of it's weave) with an open weave. I wove this one while evacuated for Hurricane Dorian. I don't often name my weavings but this one is of course "Dorian." See the little tornados?

This one I will keep; it is woven from a glow gradient merino silk roving from FiberOptic Yarns. I plied it with thread (it wouldn't have held up on the tension of the triloom without it) and then wove it with a strand of good old Aunt Lydia's crochet cotton. 

My Triloom

Long ago, I went to the New Hampshire Sheep and Wool Festival.  There, I spotted my first triloom at HillCreek Fiber Studios Booth. I have wanted one ever since.

I have a friend from college who is a fabulous woodworker.  He actually made me a tri-loom.

Here is my first effort, a 7' triangle.  Made of some  very inexpensive lightweight yarn purchased at a mill in Ireland, supplemented with some very expensive kidsilk haze!  Not pictured:  if I pin the three ends together, it makes a decent shrug...