Has anyone made their own flashes?

[Todd Bradshaw]

I'm thinking about trying some diced garter ties on our inkle loom, just to see how they come out. It currently has a wide band on it, which my wife is weaving. I set it up with colors similar to one of our tartans and it will probably end up being a strap for a leather general purpose shoulder bag I'll make her. I'm getting the feeling though, that due to the nature of inkle weaving (weft yarns don't really show, so the weavings tend to be kind of stripe-y) it may end up looking as if it sort of goes with our tartans, but just by coincidence and be more of a distraction than anything else. We'll see how it turns out.



It's kind of fun though. I designed a simple computer program that allows me to punch in different colors and widths to preview the designs. Then we made a whole bunch of them. The only problem is figuring out what to do with them, now that they're done. I don't usually have much use for a sash, no matter what I'm wearing. Garter ties, especially solid colors, or maybe solid with a stripe or dicing along their edges would work pretty well, and the fully-diced ones might be neat.