For Kimi (and Lucy)

This afternoon I was reluctantly trying to do a little work to compensate for the fact that as I get older weeks also seem to get shorter, when I was unexpectedly and pleasantly distracted by incoming Yahoo messenger from Kimi, a new inkle weaver. During our chat I mentioned I was working on a new pick-up belt for my daughter Lucy. I tried to describe it over the messaging chat but a picture is worth a 1000 words:



The band is about 1-1/4" wide and is approx #5 perl cotton in coral colour for the background and approx #3 white cotton doubled for the pattern. The weft is the coral warp but doubled (to make a nice basketweave in the background only areas).


The warping is:
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The pattern does not extend the width of the band nor does it run continuously through the band - it is separated by approx 4" (36 picks) of plain weave as shown below.



The weird width variations are an artifact of the camera - the selvage is straight and the band is constant width (as verified by my pencil marked toothpick used as a visual temple)

BTW - the reason that I only have an approximate idea of the size of these yarns is these, like most of my other yarns, were found in a local charity shop (thrift store, to you folks in the USA). The total cost of the belt will be in the order of a few pence.