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Just a few photos of old previous art work:

Basketweave Setup – Thread Placement The Honeycomb Effect By Lady Johanna Fleming Step by Step 1)     Start by warping a border with your background threads. 2)     Warp your single pattern threads 3)     Warp 2 backgrounds 4)     Continue alternating between 1 (pattern) and 2 (background) threads until you have a sufficient # of pattern threads a.      The # of Pattern threads should be equal to the # of columns in the pattern. The # of columns IS important for setup. The # of rows is irrelevant. 5)     Warp your border of background color and you’re ready to weave! a.      For the middle section – your pattern threads you’ll see are alternating between heddle and open. When you begin to inkle weave, this thread placement will create a honeycomb or basketweave look. Keep in mind when reading this pattern; you start from top to bottom, left to right. Starting point is in the Open position. Open = O|WWWWWWBWWBWWBWWBWWBWWBWWBWWWWWW = 31 Heddle = H|W

Completed scarab today...still need to work on the axe. Studied up on Coptic Language and wrote up with some help from Wes. Added words and it looks pretty good.  And the completed piece:   

10/5/14 Update 2 patterns done This picture is good and new one with less strings. Still have to do another with pick up or Krokbragd for correct zigs. I still has pitter patter foots steps for mountains.  9/28/14 Update  Had to change the pattern again. I checked it out on the Carolingian Inkle weave generator site. Many parts were missing but was able to fix the current pattern. New photo attached of the pattern. Warping is going well, just slowly because of all the color changes.  Plain and simple this the goal: To recreate the Ramses girdle using just inkle looming. I'm using the sample from The www.globalegyptianmuseum.org  and from using examples in Anne Dixon's Inkle Pattern Directory. On the side on graph paper I'm writing up the pattern. Let's see how far this goes...lol! If you do get to look at the belt up close, you'll see it is mostly zig zags, stripes, circles, dots...the tricky part is the ankh. And doing it without using tablets

Tutorial is done!! Took a week and a half to write up a tutorial on "Beginning Pick Up Weaving." To be taught this coming weekend at Daggers and Hemlock SCA Event in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. You can find the tutorial here if you missed the class and also watch a video that goes with it. Videos are slowly being uploaded to Youtube.com because they freaking take a long time to upload!Hoping to get 2 more videos uploaded on how to actually warp correctly the Horizontal method and the other on starting and finishing. Part 3: Copy of Tutorial: Pick Up Weaving: Horizontal Stripe Method By Lady Johanna Fleming (AKA Jennifer H.) For horizontal stripes, you need your pattern threads in the open position and your backgrounds in the heddle position. You’ll need the same number of threads counting left to right; we do not count from top to bottom. The number of columns is important but not the number of rows. You can add a border; they will be just as wide as the pattern