Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Softweave Jane Eisenstein's Weaving ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://softweave.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Pages - [Home](https://softweave.com/) - [Analysis of Anni Albers 3-Ply Tapestry](https://softweave.com/articles/analysis-of-anni-albers-3-ply-tapestry/) - In August 1997, I closely examined an Anni Albers wall hanging entitled 3-Ply Tapestry (BR48.138) at the Busch-Reisinger Museum of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A photograph of this hanging appears on page 73 of Bauhaus Textiles: Women Artists and the Weaving Workshop by Sigrid Weltge Wortmann. With the information I gathered, I was able - [About](https://softweave.com/about/) - Weaving I am an artist whose medium is weaving. The first version of this website was put up in 1996 so that I could share information on loom controlled shibori with a weaver on another coast. Later that year, I created the Weavers Guild of Boston website, which I maintained through early 2000. I became - [WIF Visualizer](https://softweave.com/software/wif-visualizer/) - WIF Visualizer is a web-based tool that reads a WIF (Weaving Information File) format draft with any number of shafts and translates it into a PNG file depicting either the draft drawdown's structure or color. Using WIF Visualizer, you can translate WIF files up to 4 MB in size. The generated PNG file is returned - [Contact](https://softweave.com/contact/) - Please use the contact form below, if you have questions. [weforms id="470"] - [Multi-Weft Double Weave Pickup](https://softweave.com/articles/multi-weft-double-weave-pickup/) - This green man is the first multi-weft double weave piece I produced using pickup. The green man is an ancient and now poorly understood nature figure who appears as a foliated head in churches throughout Europe. This green man image was derived from the Haindl Tarot deck's Emperor who is depicted as one with nature. - [Gallery](https://softweave.com/gallery/) - Prior to 2010 - [Designing Divided Threading Double Weave](https://softweave.com/articles/designing-divided-threading-double-weave/) - In 1995, I took the summer course "Weaving Complex Structures" taught by Susan Sklarek at the Rhode Island School of Design. The course focuses on computer aided fabric design for 24 shaft dobby looms. The double weave section included a technique for hand drafting 12 block double weave designs for 24 shaft straight draw threadings. - [Jacquard Design on 24 Shafts](https://softweave.com/articles/jacquard-design-on-24-shafts/) - Alice Schlein's fall 1998 contribution to the Complex Weavers Computer Aided Design Exchange study group was "False Satin for Network Drafting." It intrigued me because the design process she used was similar to that used to design Jacquard weaves. I decided to try designing for my own 24 shaft mini-Jacquard loom using tools readily available - [Designing Triple Weaves for Jacquard Handlooms](https://softweave.com/articles/designing-triple-weaves-for-jacquard-handlooms/) - Weaving on a Jacquard-type handloom has led me to design weave structures intended for use in a single piece of weaving. This article describes some triple weave structures that were created to solve particular design challenges. I put a cyan, magenta and yellow 10/2 cotton warp set at 64.5 epi on my TC-1 loom with - [Articles](https://softweave.com/articles/) - These are some byways in weaving I explored. Loom Controlled Shibori An Experiment With Pulled Warp Tapestry Analysis of Anni Albers 3-Ply Tapestry Multi-weft Double Weave Pickup Jacquard Design on 24 Shafts Designing Divided Threading Double Weave Designing Triple Weaves for Jacquard Handlooms - [Loom Controlled Shibori](https://softweave.com/articles/loom-controlled-shibori/) - Shibori is a Japanese resist dyeing technique often based on patterns made with running stitches in cloth. The stitches are drawn up tight to gather the fabric, creating areas that resist being colored during the dye process. I've experimented with creating shibori-like effects in cloth that has had draw up threads inserted as it was - [An Experiment With Pulled Warp Tapestry](https://softweave.com/articles/an-experiment-with-pulled-warp-tapestry/) - In the spring of 1996, I took a course in 3-Dimensional Design Science taught by Arthur Loeb at the Harvard Extension School. For my final project in this class, I wove a polyhedral shape using pulled warp tapestry techniques. The polyhedron I wove is a degenerate stellation of both a cube and an octahedron called - [Multi-weft Double Weave Drafter](https://softweave.com/software/multi-weft-double-weave-drafter/) - Given the number steps needed to translate multi-weft double weave designs into weave drafts. I realized having a computer do part of the work would make the translation process less error prone and tedious. The result of that realization is this web-based tool. This tool can help you draft tabby double weave that has - [Software](https://softweave.com/software/) - I developed these web-based tools to help me design weavings. I share them in hopes they'll be useful to other weavers. WIF Visualizer is a web-based tool that translates WIF drafts to PNG images. Multi-weft Double Weave Drafter is a web-based tool that generates WIF double weave drafts. ## Posts - [Attribution](https://softweave.com/attribution/) - This site has been created with the help of many different people and companies.This site was built on a powerful, Inspirations based web builder called BoldGrid. It is running on WordPress, the most popular content management software online today. Web hosting support is provided by InMotion Hosting.