lacewood

I can't seem to get away from the idea of lace even in the tools I choose! This is my new lacewood shuttle, made by Johnathan Bosworth. I got it at the beginning of February to go with my new attache charka (about which much more anon). The cloth on which it's resting is the first one in which I'm using my handspun as weft. The nifty thing about this shuttle is that the spindles fit directly into it-- straight from the spinning to the weaving, no additional winding required. I love it. I'm very interested in using the energy of yarn for special effects, so being able to take delicate singles from spinning to weaving without intermediate steps will be a great advantage to me.

The warp is commercial two-ply cotton from various natural colored cones. Mostly 20/2 but some 30/2. There are 3/1 twill stripes set at 48 epi and plain weave sections set at 24 epi. I'm hoping the plain weave areas will be loose enough to allow the weft some expression of energy. We'll see. Right now I'm just getting used to the new tool, practicing my spinning, experimenting.