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One of the neatest things I learned in Linda Hendrickson's double-face
tabletweaving workshop is an easy way to unweave. You simply go across the
warp, rotating each card in turn until the previous weft is exposed. Remove
the weft and repeat until you've removed the error. Figure out where you
are in the design. To test it, try unweaving one more pick, but this time
reversing what you think was the previous step. If that works (ie. exposes
the weft), you're at the right place, and you can proceed.
She also said something that has stuck with me ever since the class. She
said, and I'm paraphrasing here, "To unweave is tedious and does take time,
but if you don't, you'll have to look at that error forever." That one
statement really struck a nerve with me, and changed my whole attitude
toward errors. I used to be pretty lax about them, now I seldom let them
go, not in tabletweaving or in my regular weaving, either. Of course, that
doesn't mean I still don't miss one from time to time - the universe offers
me plenty of opportunities to learn humility <g> - but these days, I don't
view unweaving to remove an error as a tedious chore but as a satisfying
part of the process.
Deanna
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