變色花帽 blooming floral hat

This week I finish two hats made of hand-woven fabric. The fabric has UV thread as weft. Therefore the white hats will "blossom" under sun light. It is cheerful to have these accessories when we saw so many disastrous news recently. It was a cloudy day when I took the photos. The color of flower will be stronger if  it is a sunny day.
這星期用手織布縫好兩頂帽子，因為緯線是變色線，所以白帽子在陽光下會「開」出彩色的花朵。特別在看到那麼多天災的新聞後，看到色彩的變化能讓人稍微開心一點。拍照那天其實是陰天，所以色彩淡了一點。

手織書 Woven pages

The work of this week was warping a white warp to replace the transparent warp on the Jacq 3G at home. This is the advantage of having double warp beams. A regular yarn is much easier to winding and knotting!! The first trial of this white warp is a woven book. There are four pages woven today. The symbols are brocaded. You can find the back of the fabric has long float. That is the characteristic of the brocade fabric. The lower part of the fabric is a test weaving for finding aspect ratio, proper weft and setting the auto cloth advance system. The Jacq 3G has auto cloth advance system which I like very much. The pages are soft and thick which are very different from paper.

這星期把家裡的提花機整上新的白經線，另一捲透明經線只用了一點點，還是先暫停。因為有雙經軸，所以可以這樣處理。經常整奇怪的線材後，會覺得一般的線材實在太好整經了！！！通常一個人間隔整經20多碼、30英吋寬，包含捲線、綁線等步驟，約需要兩個工作天。先嘗試「手織書」，今天織完四頁。注音符號的部份是用夾織技法，從布的背面可以看到浮線，這是夾織的特徵。布塊的下半部是測試，用來找出正確經緯比、適當線材及調整緯密控制的設定。Jacq 3G 有緯密控制器及自動捲布機制，如果一開始設定好，織作時會很暢快，是我很喜歡的功能。今天織完四頁，手感和紙張很不同。

front  前面

back  背面

after stitched  縫合後

無奈的雪莉 Shally is not appreciated

據說「許多常見的貓狗，也會時常輕啣著子女以示親愛」？！

今天試著做狗媽媽，但無法用嘴輕啣著雪莉，所以用手代替，但是雪莉似乎不很喜歡！
An article said that dogs and cats will use mouth to hold their kids to show their love!(?) Today I try to do that to Shally (not my mouth, of course). She is not appreciated.