Overshot Redux

摘要

FOR THESE SCARVES, I decided to look at overshot from a different angle and explore how it would look and feel using the wonderful materials handweavers have available today. Overshot was introduced to me, and thousands of other weavers, through the beautiful and functional traditional coverlets woven by our collective grandmothers and grandfathers. Many of these amazing patterns were gathered and preserved for us by the likes of Mary Meigs Atwater, Marguerite Porter Davison, and Weaver Rose. That is what I believed overshot to be throughout the early years of my handweaving life, but for this project, I wanted a more modern vibe. I wove two scarves on the same warp of 8/2 cotton using 20/2 silk as my pattern weft and Bambu 12 as tabby. For my draft, I used John Madison from Marguerite Porter Davison's A Handweaver's Pattern Book, although I altered the threading to reduce the size of the weft floats. One scarf is a usable sampler. I played with colors and pattern repeats and tried different treadlings. The result is a freeform color and pattern sampler that I can wear and still refer to when looking for ideas.