{"id":32,"date":"2007-03-23T06:31:18","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T01:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.textillian.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2007-03-23T06:31:18","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T01:31:18","slug":"buffalo-plaid-pillow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo plaid pillow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a pillow shows just how balanced a handwoven fabric can be made.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/bflpllw.jpg\" title=\"Buffalo plaid pillow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/bflpllw.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Buffalo plaid pillow\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This pillow&#8217;s fabric emphasizes a particular aspect of the weave structure, its balance. To form perfect squares in the plaid with the same number to threads in both directions requires a balanced weave. I made fabric for three pillows (gifts for my brothers and sister,) and all of them came out the same, which is a good thing! I found this yarn to be very easy to work with, especially in finding the beat necessary for weaving this cloth.<\/p>\n<p>The warp and the weft are both unmercerized cotton purchased from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/yarn.com\/\">Webs<\/a>. The color treadling for this pillow is tromp as writ (in other words, the color pattern for the weft is the same as it is for the warp.)<\/p>\n<p>Below is a close up view of the weave structure. It is a simple plain weave. The pattern requires 2 harnesses, and the sett is 18 e.p.i.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/bflpllwx.jpg\" title=\"Buffalo plaid pillow close-up\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/bflpllwx.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Buffalo plaid pillow close-up\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a pillow shows just how balanced a handwoven fabric can be made. This pillow&#8217;s fabric emphasizes a particular aspect of the weave structure, its balance. To form perfect squares in the plaid with the same number to threads in both directions requires a balanced weave. I made fabric for three pillows (gifts for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-old-site","category-weaving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}