seasonal endings

here in the med our summer season extends well into september, sometimes even october. early mornings are cooler, but not chilly. as a result plants keep blooming and seedlings sprouting.the bigger ones  above are  aji dulce, aka aji cachucha( capsicum chinense). the tiny ones are recao( eryngium foetidum) both of which give latin food it's charcteristic taste.
the seeds were bought in the u.s. during my visit to my sister in florida and i waited until i came back from my holidays in valencia to plant them. they took a long time to come out, and i can  finally say i'll have a supply of cooking delicacies!once they get going you have a constant supply of fresh seeds to plant.

it is also time to buy plants of the small mildly hot peppers so dear to the spanish. the plants are small, compact and more than often used as ornamental plants.not in my household. 

the last blooms of the season:

my clematis  multi blue which i thought had gone to plant heaven, but miraclously came back.

and my jackmanii from an ultra cheap supermarket.the ones from the good expensive nurseries never survived!











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the meaning of summer

dyeing , little or no weaving.getting yarn ready for winter weaving. aizome and kakishibuzome. fortunately the colors are meant for each other they go so well together! The yarns were dipped twice in kakishibu and left a day each time. they were sunned until i was pleased with the color.no color modifier was added so the color is the natural peachy brown.
dying-note the spelling ^_^ to get back to the loom.


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at the fair

period embroidered velvet curtain used as a table cover at a street fair stall. the stall traded in antique books, so it was not totally irreverent.

the stitching was a very tight chainstitch worked in a chenille yarn and as you can see in some points it looks like cut  velvet.

the velvet was green and in some parts had faded to a grayish olive  green.
the photos are not my best because they were taken with my cell phone.

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