(Originally published 10 Feb 2015)
This is a moment of sincere frustration. I found a very cool Dragon Heads pattern called “Dragehoveder” on the Historic Tablet Weaving Facebook page, but despite several attempts, verifying the threading, varying the turning sequences, and a lot of cussing, I finally decided that this was not going to happen.
The threading isn’t very difficult…it’s all dark-light-medium-light…
I struggled with it for hours…literally…weaving, unweaving, cutting it off, trying again. [Later I think I know what I did wrong…]
I didn’t like having the orange-brown in it, either, so I replaced it with white (or rather shifted the grey to the “medium” color and made white the “light” color). After nearly throwing the loom across the room a few times, I abandoned the idea and made Egyptian Diagonals instead.
It came up to just under 3 yards, which is a yard shorter than my usual trim lengths. That’s how much loss I had in attempting to make the dragon heads work. Grrrrr…
Now, if you want to do Egyptian Diagonals, it’s fairly easy! So here’s now it’s done…
First, thread your cards (I used 14 in the project above):
W: white, G: grey, N: navy
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G
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G
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N | W | G | W | N | W | G | W | N | W | G | W | G |