May 2025
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Hella Skowronski offers an interesting idea for a sprang garment in her book Sprang Thread Twisting A Creative Textile Technique.
The approach has you set up a warp, long enough to reach from the hem at the front, over the shoulders, and extending to the hem at the back of the shirt. For a warp appropriate to an adult garment this could be some 7 or 8 ft long. Working on a warp of such a length can seem daunting. Ms Skowronski offers an approach that breaks the task down into easy, reasonable sections. 
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Set up a warp of the desired length. Work begins at the top of the frame A. Decide the length of finished garment for lower front and lower back of the garment, and calculating up-take, measure and mark B and F. Place a stop cord at these lines. Work to create a piece of cloth that uses the warp from A to B, and insert a cord as the waistline. Then work from G to F, creating a similar piece of cloth, again finished with a waistline cord.
Create the cloth at the chest, front and back. Calculate the length required for the neck opening allowing for uptake, and mark C and E on the warp. Work from B to C, and then from E to F, stabilising the centres.
Lastly work from C to E, creating the slit D for the V-neck opening.
Create the cloth at the chest, front and back. Calculate the length required for the neck opening allowing for uptake, and mark C and E on the warp. Work from B to C, and then from E to F, stabilising the centres.
Lastly work from C to E, creating the slit D for the V-neck opening.
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Carol made a child's shirt in an afternoon.
She recorded what she did in the document at the right. |
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