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This piece was inspired by a simple landscape of ground and sky with a single ray of light piercing both. A play on light and dark uses a structure which gives a balanced mix of warp and weft throughout the piece, to contrast with a structure woven as “dark” (weft-faced) for the ground and as “light” (warp-faced) for the sky. The design motif is transformed, in the threading and treadling, to create areas of different textures over the ground.
Techniques:
Handweaving.
Counterchanged motif, transformed by changes in the threading and treadling.
Double two-tie threading, tied up to 1/3 and 3/1 broken twill, contrasting with a balanced structure of my own design.
Dimensions:
20″ x 20″
Materials:
10/2 mercerized cotton warp and weft
Loom:
24 shaft AVL Workshop Dobby Loom
Linda Schultz
Linda Schultz has been weaving for over fifty years, learning to weave as a child from her mother who is also an avid weaver. She has always been fascinated with weave structures and block designs, finding ways to maximize the potential for patterns on four shafts before moving on to multi-shaft looms. For the last 20+ years, she has been exploring the interaction of colour and structure to develop increasingly complex designs, with the assistance of Fiberworks and Photoshop software. Linda has published numerous articles in the Complex Weavers Journal on double weave, tessellations, double two-tie unit weaves, turned tie-weaves, and parallel weaves. She has had her work accepted into regional, national and international juried shows, and won awards, including the Complex Weavers Award, for her work. She has taught in-person and Zoom classes on many subjects including tessellations, Fiberworks, double two-tie unit weaves, and double weave.
