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And the finished satchel made from the fabric woven on the warp weighted loom (main body here, and the not quite long enough for both leg bindings here).
Interior here. May line in linen or canvas at some point given how loose the main body weave is.

So, finally finished enough weaving to be able to make the planned shoulder bag. 38 inches plus a bit. At the stage of debating whether to keep going and use up the length of warp threads available or just stop now.

Stand back and look for a while. Poke with using the same thread for the weft as the warp (previously used a much lighter weight wool. Discover very little difference. Hmmmm. Think about it and come to the conclusion that I have been tensioning way too tight on the weft threads and produced a bit too much of a warp faced fabric. Which is at least consistently that way and will go with the previous too-short-to-be leg bindings woven done the same way.

But one of the reasons to get into this weaving business was to try and do some of the cool woven in patterns such as herring-bone twills and diamond twills etc and if I am weaving things too tight, then I am not going to be able to get those right.

Bugger.

So, in the mean time I will take off the current fabric, wash and make a bag with it. Then I will sit down with the rigid heddle I have and try and train myself to do an even-weave tabby. Then get back to the warp weighted loom and try playing again. If that goes ok then the next stage will be attempting multiple heddles on that loom.

We shall see what happens then. But now it is really too late on a weeknight.

The not quite so mad project is an Elizabethan blackwork coif. Silk on linen, using the grape and flower and knotwork design from the Jane Bostocke sampler (another sampler image here.

( Progress so far and links to finished leg binding weaving (and 3 pictures) )

Pin moved to 140 inches.

Otherwise general domesticity with laundry, bathroom cleaning, sweeping and gardening.
Just waiting for the southerly to arrive though.

Edit: And as of 4:10pm, you can see the dark clouds to the south. Time to bring in the laundry.

Leg binding length (pin mark) advanced to 120 inches. Which is just over 3m :) Fingers crossed I might get two leg bindings out (one for each leg...)
Still have some wool to go on the warp threads though, so will keep going. Will be interesting to see the amount of shrinkage upon washing.

Leg binding length at 45 1/2 inches, pin marker moved to 40 inches.

Edit: Length at 10:30pm 51 inches.
There was a bit of time taken for dishes and doing the wind up at the top and adjust the heights of the weights at the bottom. Getting a lot of trouble from twisted up threads - really slows down and catches the heddle threads when moving the heddle down. Not certain if this is due to the threads being tied in pair and producing a 2-1 twill.