Further adventures in sprang

 I really haven't updated my further sprang works. Well after the last post about it I felt that I was ready to make proper 16th century hairnets, and I started with making male ones, since I figured it would be easier to work with bases that were smaller than what is needed for a female net, where I need to have space for a wulst under it. I also wanted to explore different stripes.

Here I have the male nets that I made, and they are all too small for my husband, I felt like tried to make them bigger and bigger, but as soon as I started to sew them together and add some of the shaping, they shrank too much. I simply think that I have reached the end of what I can make with my small sprang frame. Also the yarn, a pure 2ply wool, is a bit too thick.

I also tried to make another set of fingerless mittens, and I got really happy with them. It's obvious that the bottom half of the sprang weave is a lot looser though, because that mitten ended up a lot larger than the one made on the top half.

With me being restricted by my sprang frame, I also felt that I needed to simply learn more about techniques and simply being able to make different thing than a basic net. So I bought a pdf-book "Sprang Unsprung" by Carol James and for Christmas I bought some reflective yarn so that I could make smaller reflectors, them being text pieces but still being useful.

These are all made in different sprang weaves, and I felt that I am more happy with making holes than working with s and z twists to create fabric patterns. It was definitely good for me to do these.

And with that I do have made some pieces that I will post about in further posts. I still feel that I need to get myself a larger sprang loom though to be able to fully explore and continue working on larger projects.