{"id":74926,"date":"2014-03-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhgshop.it\/weaving-a-report\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:38:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:38:58","slug":"weaving-a-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhgshop.performize.io\/en\/weaving-a-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaving: a report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Just as promised a few weeks ago, <\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">here I am to tell you about weaving<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Once again I have to thank you all because you have given me the chance to immerse myself in the true reality of textile production and since most of my time is spent behind a desk, I have to say that it was a nice change! It\u2019s always the same old story that, for some reason, the places closest to us are the ones that in one way or another we least appreciate and enjoy.  Maybe because of lack of time, laziness or what else I don\u2019t know.  What I do know is that this day trip (which didn\u2019t even take me that far\u2026) was just what I needed.<\/span><\/p><p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">It is an almost impossible task to explain in one single post how weaving<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"> works and what are the mechanisms, steps and skills that are behind each fabric.  I am not waving a white flag but realistically I do admit that my intention was not to explain the entire process in minute detail, but rather to give you an introduction as well as some basic ideas that I hope you will find useful when you find yourself examining fabrics (and much more). When words aren\u2019t enough, I hope that the photos of this mini-report and this short video that we uploaded to Youtube will help.<\/span><br><\/p><br><br><h3 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">The ABC\u2019s of weaving<\/h3><p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The tool needed for weaving is obviously the loom<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">. There are many many types of looms, especially in the modern textile industry (the same ones that you will see at work in our video), but to simplify things I will describe the work of a loom when creating a plain weave fabric. Plain weave is the easiest and most common type of weave and its structure, despite the necessary modifications, evolutions (and complications!) has been and still is at the foundation of even the biggest industrial looms.<\/span><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dyeinghousegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Telaio-1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">During the weaving process the threads of the weft and warp are woven together.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The threads of the warp are wound on the (1)<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">warp beam<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"> (which is a cylinder located in the back of the loom) and divided into two alternate sets (even and uneven sets). Each (2)<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">thread of the warp<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"> is passed through a (3)<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">heddle<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"> which is the instrument required to move these threads. The even heddles move the warp threads from the even set and the uneven heddles move the warp threads from the uneven set. The heddles are connected to (4)<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">pedals<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"> that the weaver can press to lift each individual thread necessary to create the weave.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The movement created by these actions has the purpose of creating an open space (called a shed in technical jargon) through which the (5)<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">weft<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"> can be passed attached to a (6)<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">shuttle<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">. The shuttle passes from one side of the loom to the other, unwinding the thread which is then pushed into place by the (7)<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">reed<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"> (a sort of comb) to position it in line with the weft from the previous passage.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Therefore one crossing of threads after another is the weaving process.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">This technique is at the foundation of each type of loom, whether it be simple or complex, and for 5,000 years has been allowing men and women in all parts of the world to create textiles.<\/span><\/p><br><br><br><br><br><br>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as promised a few weeks ago, here I am to tell you about weaving.Once again I have to thank you all because you have given me the chance to immerse myself in the true reality of textile production and since most of my time is spent behind a desk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":28236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8938,8937],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dhg-pedia-weave","category-weave"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Weaving: a report - DHG Shop<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Just as promised a few weeks ago, here I am to tell you about weaving. 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