Enter TIF

i have been joyously weaving away and thinking-that's what i do when i weave- of changes but in the way of transformations. What it means, ways to carry out transformation, how those thoughts can be put into practice on textiles. Textiles per se are transformation moguls, from seed to cloth, from, grass to fur to yarn to cloth, from worm to yarn to cloth. Not to mention the vile synthetics, all those CHs and OHs chained together.

As weaver by trade and a purist at soul i fiercely resisted synthetics. But then a heat gun crossed my path and melted away my resistance. i don't think i'll ever weave with synthetics, but as far as transforming them into something else... Well what can i say?

Here's this week's TIF exercise, a heat shaped polyester organza island with plowed fields, rocks, hills and bays.
Quite impossible to fashion with cotton fabric, dont you agree?

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weaving on a table loom

Had not used the table loom in a long while,charmed by my dobby loom. And the thing is that it is not a hassle weaving on it. Actually, it has a very good shed, better than the dobby.Evidently it is not meant for complex weaving,or complex repeats.But for straightforward patters it is a 12 shaft beauty.

The silk yarn that has given me headaches in the past is behaving well here. Perhaps it is because of the dyeing, but on second thought this had also been dyed although not with natural dyes.
Silk here was dyed with kakishibu(persimmon) mordanted with alum and iron thus getting a coppery brown and dark chocolate brown. The blue is ai(indigo) in two values the warp a lighter blue, faded denim, than the weft.

It is a very unpretentious crepe weave, Oelsner's 867 that will give a soft texture after wet finished.
It is sheer joy to weave this wabi stole, simple, unasuming, the quality of the yarn doing all the speaking.
Restrained beauty.

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Change -a project

from this to this

i keep following this month's TIF concept with a twist.
Need a display case for your ATCs? Well, now you know what to do with a wooden wine crate! Buy cheap acrylic paint because you don't want perfect coverage. Thin it even more with water and paint carelessly, giving it a distressed look that goes well with the rough, knotty veiny wood.
Let it dry and that's it! Display your ATCs.
The bonus is that you need to drink all that vino :)

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