Bag On A Box Redux

Twenty-odd years ago, I came down with an idea:
to weave a 3D, four selvedge bag 
using a cardboard box as a loom.

The original Box Bag; ©Sarah C. Swett 1996/2015

The project would portable, 
the materials cheap, 
the loom recyclable. 
And it might be fun. 

It was.

---

 Deb Robson, suggested I write it up.

Spin Off, Winter 1997; Digital Drawing ©Sarah C. Swett 2015

A few years later, Melanie Falick
 wanted an essay for Interweave Knits.

Time passed, as it does. 

I used my bag and made other things.

The idea survived, adapted and spread by itself.

 In 2007 Madelyn van der Hoogt of Handwoven, suggested this:

Handwoven; January/ February 2008

More years went by.
I made other bags, 
put this one away,
forgot about it.


Tapestries were woven,
sweaters knit
stories told.


I did some tidying
found my  beloved bag
got it out again.
It was still great.


Then last week, contemplating a pile of beloved leggings
with the holes in the knees too enormous to mend yet again, 
I remembered the box part of the equation.

Hurrah for rotary cutters

I love the look of rag weft

cotton/ spandex is satisfying, if unusually stretchy, weft

the last few rows -- thank goodness for the curved tip of the sacking needle

bag (or is it a basket?) off the box ©Sarah C. Swett 2015

This morning my drafting table looks like this.  

©Sarah C. Swett 2015

So I guess I'm going to write these instructions yet again.