I have studied the prior epic thread here on replacing Danish cord. It has given me some ideas but nothing really deals with what I'm looking at.
I hope I can upload some photos. (Not sure until I try it just how the images will land in the post)
In the meantime: these little chairs have:
No nails
No 2nd rail
It looks like the weft/front-to-back cord is a double feed with the loop bound tightly to the rail by a wrapping cord - rather than hooked by a nail. It would seem like the warp/front-to-back cords would have to be worked simultaneously with the wrapping cord in order to do this - 2 people??
Or maybe I'm not deconstructing it correctly.
If this is the case - I don't think I can pull that off. Which means not replacing these seats with exactly the original weave.
I have seen some images of what looks like a kind of loop going over the adjacent cord the get the wrap going back across in the right direction.
Does anyway know of a good resource for instructions on that method?
My last resort would be to just to a straight weave - both on top and below. That's not very satisfying and would take a lot of cord.
Any ideas?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marsh_hawk_studio/sets/72157639593558685/
pictures not working
Sorry, not sure how to get the pictures to post individually here from flickr but I hope you can see the flickr set which has close ups showing the strange loops wrapped under the rail-wrap.
Thanks!
Lausanne
Your picse aren't showing but
I copied the image location and pasted it into a new window and saw them just fine.
That's an easy one to do. Just do wrap twice around each side rail when doing the weft. Make sure you enclose the last warp strands on each side as you weave the weft. It's easy to get off on the wrong foot in the beginning and leave that last double strand just kind of floating between the weft strands as they diverge to the side rail.
As for the warp (front to back), the only way I know of to do this neatly is to loop your cord around the two strands and pull it tightly (eta: which is what you're aksing about). I know you have to do this on at least one rail --front or back---but maybe you have to do it on both. I've only ever done it on both. You can do the between-strand wraps on one rail as you go but you cannot do them on both rails. One has to be wrapped separately.
This looping is way easier to do in one direction than the other but I can never remember if it's right to left or left to right--sorry!
I puzzled over it too until I finally just fooled around with it a bit and then it was very obvious (and very easy). I would work with a shuttle because there is a lot of going through loops and under and over and it can get very confusing if you have a lot of slack in your cord.
I would do this rather than what's on your chairs now, which looks kind of messy.
Just make sure you're going in the direction that's easiest for tightening the loop around the double warp strand. I'm thinking it's left to right but I could be wrong...
thank you!
Thanks for the help! Now my life has gone haywire (in a good way) and I must put this aside - once again. I will come back to it and dissect your notes and finally give this a try. I feel like I can do it but I need a clear space of time to figure it out. I thought I had that - but, alas, the day job calls.
I'm going to bookmark this so I can find it again.
Lausanne
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