finishing the wet finish

getting ready to tie on some little knots to the dummy warp and doing the wet finishing. then pressing to bring out the shine in linen. the last piece was a real joy, i'll post photos as soon as the piece is in the post, don't want to spoil the surprise.on the other hand i had never been able until now to weave right to the very knots touching the back of the reed. is this a sign of adulthood?

i have also been experimenting a bit with ps brushes as i'm a brush hoarder and what's the point of having too many of them. if i use a size multiple of 24, which is my shaft capacity-ergo liftplan - and then index the result to 2 colors i can get pretty nifty weavable images that range from the precise to the very abstract.  serious fun here. in short i've had to time myself  at the computer or else one day would run into another.

and the photo is a find in the mythical bottomless drawer.an ancient 90x90 silk twill square dyed in an arashi shibori pattern using procion MX dyes. it's so old i can't remember when i made it.could easily qualify as vintage  :)

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the excitement goes on

weaving some more words for a friend.this is going to be a surprise, so no photo today.instead a pattern of mine created at colour lovers, one of the funnest on line communities. full of  design resources.check it out.

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the woven word

more of it, now that it has become so easy thanks to the liftplan connection. still had some warp so i dashed to the computer and designed a kitchen towel for my BIL, cook extraordinaire.
for someone who believes in  the written word, the woven word is almost like a small miracle.

sitting at the loom koei mode (see soetsu yanagi) i had thoughts of a new series. and i want to explore different fonts for better readability. maybe continue using the same linen now that i've learned how to tame it into submission.and add surface design elements.

 on another note i gave my friend the table runner. found an ikea bag and put it in and told him i had seen it there and thought he might like it.

he  took the bag and said "how sweet of you".then pulled the runner out and said "you didn't buy this at ikea, it says you all over"- which i thought it was a pretty neat compliment. then he got excited when he realized it had their names all over.

life is full  of small pleasures.

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