The back is pretty neat, though I feel like Im just narrowly avoiding an accidental swastika here lol (those are a lot easier to accidentally make than you'd think)

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Hey @booty@hexbear.net its weaving time again

Back on the grind with a much simpler pattern this time lol. Im really trying to churn a few more out before Christmas so I can give everyone in my family one.

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Heres the pattern. Extremely simple pattern but the results are fantastic.

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Idk about the specifics of coloring but this is supposed to be a slavic belt. In the movie Amleth raids a slavic town and later takes some of their clothes off a dead man to disguise himself as a slave, so this belt would also be slavic, not norse.

I really do wish we had a c/crafts or c/weaving or something. I suppose I could shove these into c/art but that community just feels like its got the wrong vibes. I might put some in c/paganism if I ever do a pattern with some religious significance. Ill try to remember to tag you when I post them in the mega tho.

Technically I suppose any sort of craft will count as "do it yourself" but c/DIY is more for home repair/fix it jobs than for artistic pieces. Id prefer something specifically more geared toward artistry

Thats not a bad idea. Even if they dont have the actual patterns themselves, if they have images of the belts or even the full costumes it would be enough for me to work backward from.

Im so happy with how it turned out lol. Figuring out a pattern by eye and then actually making it and having it work perfectly is such a satisfying process.

It definitely went a lot faster than my other projects. Partly thats because I felt a good deal of motivation, but also working with a longer pattern means that the work never got monotonous. By the time I began to repeat steps I'd be like 9 inches along the warp length which meant my progress was much more apparent than with a smaller 8 turn pattern.

Thank you! Im super proud of it lol

Thanks! And yea c/art just feels like its for digital-art/paintings/etc, something like c/crafts for physical works would be nice

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Its cool because its both based on Hamlet itself and the story that actually inspired Hamlet.

Yes to add onto what Sickos said, as you spin the cards the warp is threaded through, the threads spin around each other, and as you pass the weft through them it "locks" the twined threads into place. As they twist they make 45° lines which then line up with their neighbor threads on the rows before and after. You can make lines going straight in line with the warp by making them all the same color so the angle of the twist is not visible, but perpendicular lines are a bit trickier, so generally you'll see a lot of 45° angular patterns, like zig zags, interconnected knots, diamonds that sort of thing. Generally you'll have 4 threads per card, but you can do anything from 2 to 6 to get different types of pattern.

Heres a couple of diagrams showing how the twining works

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As the diagrams show, the thread in the uppermost hole that passes over the weft as you turn it will show up on top, and the direction you turn the card determines the direction the threads will twist. when you reverse the direction of the cards the thread that was on top will pass over again with the opposite spin, creating a small "float" that does not twist except at the top and bottom where it's anchored by the weft.

Finally inished my Northman belt! And damn it looks good. Its a bit too bright and its cotton not wool, but the pattern is perfect. And its 105 inches long, so its fuckin massive lol

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I love how its almost fully reversible too, from a distance you cant even see the difference in angle on the thread twist

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For reference heres the shot of Amleth wearing the belt

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RIP to Tony Todd

I fucking hate my boss. she tried to illegally cut everyone's break today because we "only" worked 4 hours and she thought that she only legally had to give us one every 5 hours until I angrily, and correctly, showed her that the law says 4 hours. Beyond just outright breaking the law its fascinating to me to make literally all your workers angry so you can save 15 minutes worth of wages. 15 minutes! What does she gain by being so fucking stingy! Shes always doing this shit, she'll literally spend all day watching for when people return from our breaks/lunches to count the exact minute they come back.

later she wrote me up for being late too often, which Im suuuure had absolutely nothing to do with me being angry she was literally breaking the law lmao. unfortunately the write up is technically justified so theres no way I could get her on retaliating but still.