#4, weaving flowers

What: Dark blue ecological hemp fabric from Ecolution with eco test print. Very thick quality. Size 30x140cm

How: I decided to be more systematic on the folding before weaving, this is how I fold:

Folding from the right, using
a weight to hold in place

Folding from the left side

Folding the left side on top of the right,
forming a pocket on one side

...and folding a package to move to weaving 

And now to the weaving. One time on the top, and back again underneath, and inserting into the pocket:

The last end before inserting into the pocket

...and done.

Reflection: Using clothespins to hold the folding in place is a hit (better then a weight - the pins can follow to the weaving. Also hear I cut off some 10-15cm in the end before inserting in to the pocket.

Special for my frame: As my frame has an extra enforcement (early prototype) in the middle I have skipped going down under the mid wire - every second weft will have a 3 grid wide part in the middle, but this goes only for my frame, nothing to worry about for other frames out there...

Colourful Flour Flowers

The 'Flour Fellow' bean bags should have prints in the style of flour bags of the old days (the icon is of the flour miller taking a nap on his newly filled bags...), and invited four artists to make artwork for the bags (Barbro Wesslander, Carina Nibér, Ann-Sofie Lennstrand-Hallberg och Johanna Hansson - you can see them sitting on their bags here). 

And sustainable bags should be machine washable - we started looking for local fabric printers that could make washable prints using ecological ingredients, and found Svenskt Textiltryckeri AB in Sölvesborg, Sweden. They made a test print on one of the test hemp fabrics that we had received from Ecolution, using an existing pattern that they had. And here it is, ready to be part of my T-shirt Chair, some colour and a good contrast to the kaki and yellow that I started off with... 

#3, something baggy

Hemp fabric 'Brod' from Ecolution

What: Test fabric part of 'Brod' - hemp fabric from Ecolution.
Size: 140x50cm

How: I still fold from the two long sides, but now a little bit wider then the grid (it's nice if it 'flows over' the grid a little bit when weaving) forming an app 6cm wide, 140cm long, flat band of fabric with a slot/pocket on one side where the band can be inserted into itself on the bottom side. 140 cm was a little bit to much, I cut of some 10 cm before inserting the last end.

Reflection: This was a lot better! Easier with an even fabric, and I did not tighten as hard this time. The hemp is of course as far from elastic as anything can be - elastic I think would have been even easier and given an even  nicer flow line. But I am satisfied with this one! Now to look for more colour!
...and choosing, weaving and remembering is actually lots of fun!!!

the hemp part and one of the jean legs. Here you can also see that the frame I got (a test from the grid factory) has an extra enforcement in the middle which actually is not needed - I'll have to think of a way of making that one disappear visually...