Asa_the_Red [he/him]

As of right now this profile is broken, idk if Ill use it again.

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • Progress update on my weaving. Stuff is moving along well, I cant work to long on it since its the workweek now but I got a few hours in(none yesterday I passed out after work lol). It'll probably take all week to finish at this rate. I get a lot more done when I can spend many hours working on it during the weekend.

    pictures in the spoiler as usual

    Here you can see the back of the threads has moved up quite a bit since I started and Ive moved the chairs together as well. Im probably over halfway through the length but its hard to tell. Of course this wont translate into an equal length of finished work but its pretty long so far.

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    Heres the full belt so far. I cant actually measure the length, since its in tension and attached to the loom, but each block of the pattern is about 10-9 inches long and I have 4 blocks done, so its roughly 40 inches long (~1 meter). I was shooting for about 2 meters so Ill probably be a bit short but we'll see. Its hard to measure the length right now.

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    Heres what the back looks like. The pattern is reversed but the way tablet weaving works with 4 threads being spun in specific directions the backside doesnt look like the front but flipped. Some patterns can visually reverse but most dont.

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  • Asa_the_Red [he/him]tochapotraphousePuritans left seething
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    1 year ago

    Clearly we need to tut tut about people having hypothetical sex with an animal that could easily kill you for looking at it the wrong way. Because if we dont clearly there will be an epidemic of bear bestiality and we simply cant have that.


  • Alright I finally finished my set up, now onto actually weaving. Heres some pics of my loom:

    spoilered to keep the post small lol

    So heres the threads going through the cards. Ill turn the cards in specific ways to get the pattern I want. The "loom" itself is a couple of tall chairs and upside-down folding tables, its very cobbled together. And yes, my room is quite messy

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    This is the backside where you can see the threads are weighted down to keep them in tension. The stuff I use to weigh them down is all random junk that is easy to tie stuff to, locks and wrenches and crap. Again, very cobbled together. You can buy actual weights for this but this is fine. I do have a weighted blanket and a bunch of books weighing down the chairs themselves to keep them from tipping over since, while they arent very heavy individually, together all the threads are pulling them down quite a lot. The front chair tips backwards very easily

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    And here you can see the threads up close.

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