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After all I just started this project in January :sofa::sarcastic::nodice:
 
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Now the weaving begins. It doesn't all have to be the same color, you can mix it up, just happened to have enough black for the starter course. I think that is called a weft?
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You start by weaving with a long strip of material horizontally and it criss crosses the vertical black strips. 20221016_183615.webp
 
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Here's the detail of how it wraps around the removable rods.
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Post #43 what's the left side of the grey strip look like. Two tag ends or is it continuous like the vertical run?

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Wildthings said:
Post #43 what's the left side of the grey strip look like. Two tag ends or is it continuous like the vertical run?

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2 tag ends.
 
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Betty redid the weave, she had the pattern wrong. It looks much better now. 20221017_182926.webp 20221017_182932.webp
 
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So far this is what she's got. She works on it a little bit every morning before we go to work if she has time.
Right now she is working on the lock stitch for the top and bottom. She pulls the material through the loops with a large crochet hook.
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Pretty cool for a bunch of old t shirts. She did learn that the strips are better cut wider like
1 1/2" She has some shelf liner that will get sewn onto the back so that it's non slip. I'll show you that when she gets to it.
She calls it the woodtick rug because it's made from woodticks shirts, lol.
 
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woodtickgreg said:
So far this is what she's got. She works on it a little bit every morning before we go to work if she has time.
Right now she is working on the lock stitch for the top and bottom. She pulls the material through the loops with a large crochet hook.
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Pretty cool for a bunch of old t shirts. She did learn that the strips are better cut wider like
1 1/2" She has some shelf liner that will get sewn onto the back so that it's non slip. I'll show you that when she gets to it.
She calls it the woodtick rug because it's made from woodticks shirts, lol.
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That is cool Greg. My wife takes my old and heavily worn shirts and hides them. I think she dresses up some of our nastier looking firewood and cremates them when I'm not around. Found some Levi's rivets in the ash last spring when cleaning out the stove, so I might be onto something...
 
Very cool project and rug. One question: when she removes the finished rug from the loom, and pulls the metal rods out from the ends of the rug, does she have to stitch that to prevent it from unravelling? Or does the weave she uses somehow lock those ends in place?
 
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Yeah she weaves the ends after pulling the rods. Right now she is sewing a non slip backing on it. I'll show pics when she's done.
 
Greg, Jeff Hornung, whom you met at the retreat, his wife is big into weaving. You should get those two together!
 
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