Tejido Hollandes

"I took a class last June from Erica de Ruiter on Tejido Huaves and variations of that, which are methods of weaving based upon Oaxacan weaving, but doing it with a 4-shaft loom.

After all these months I finally had a four shaft twill design on my loom and I decided to try the "Tejido Hollandes" technique with the left over warp on my loom after a major project I was doing. Tejido Hollandes is a marriage of the Oaxacan technique and a Dutch technique (Erica is Dutch).

So I drew up a cartoon of the shape I wanted to do (these are by necessity rather simple shapes) and after weaving a header, pinned this cartoon under the remaining wool/silk white warp I had. And then I went through the process, which after a threading of:
1 2 3 4 3 2 1 repeated across (very simple twill), I would lift shafts 1 and 3, throw a thin weft, beat it but not close the shed, use a knitting needle to place under the threads that were the background but go over the warp threads that was the pattern area, move the knitting needle close *but not push down* to the reed , drop treadle 3, and then throw the pattern weft under the new shed that was formed. I really should take a picture of this so people understand this better. Then I raised 2 and 4, did the same thing with the knitting needle, following my cartoon pattern, drop 4 and throw the weft, then 1 and 3, drop 1, then 2 and 4 drop 2..... then I reversed that, once I sorta had a handle on the technique.

The reason this is three colors is I was using up weft on spools from altar cloths I was doing. I have decided that it's better to do this on a table loom than a floor loom, because holding down the treadle has given me sore legs.

Anyway here's the weaving! I've always wanted to do a shape of the Goddess! oh following that are the altarcloths I wove.

The Tallit will be up soon.

Bright Blessings!
Joy"