▲ 16 r/weaving
Help with edges
i have what i think is called a tapestry loom in the wiki and i am just starting to use it.
in the photo you can perhaps see that when i am using multiple weft colours (esp when picking everything third warp) i have messy edges - just from the different combinations of warp and weft the threads don't wrap neatly.
my teacher has tried to show me how to intertwine the two wefts so one holds the other in place, but that doesn't always seem to work.
thinking some, it seems like I could add an extra warp on each side and always loop round that. does that make sense? do people do that? is there a better way to handle this problem?
also, if there's any relevant vocab that would help me search for answers i would appreciate knowing that (i am learning in spanish, which has different names for everything).
ps i know my tension isn't great!
u/andrewcooke — 3 months ago
▲ 160 r/Chiledulces
Orly es chocolate de nuevo!
contexto - r/Chiledulces/s/PWvqAsbzN6
u/andrewcooke — 4 months ago
▲ 32 r/AskEngineers
What are good examples of things working well because of simplicity + randomness?
Not sure if this is obvious from the title or not, but for many years I have been impressed with how my entry-level robot cleaner manages to cover the whole apartment by cycling through a few simple "patterns" (follow wall to left, turn at random and advance, etc). More recently, I'm impressed with how well my bread machine manages to mix and knead bread while having only one small paddle that rotates in a single direction at a single speed - despite that, and whatever consistency, it does a decent job, with the dough apparently moving in a chaotic / random manner.
If that makes sense at all, what are other examples?
u/andrewcooke — 5 months ago