the greatest thing since bread came sliced

farewell. thanks for the good songs. and the good times

good weekend to ya'll!

neki desu

rock steady

did i mention i was on a roll?  these were dyed last week in my best  vat and dye session so far.

photo 4 is my pride and joy. a silk linen dévore scarf i wove and dyed in early 90's when experimenting w dévore. the color was a procion mx  soft blue but the linen showed too much of a difference in value. so it was stored away. the other scarf dates from way back as well. i had jumped from a 4 shaft table loom to a much more serious 12 shaft 80cm table loom and was studying  Kathryn Wertenberger's book 8,12,20 an introduction to multishaft weaving.  i was also dreaming of dobbies and computers. the front page  has  1991 handwritten on it  so do the numbers :)

the yarns are also recouped. i dyed them in my first flop of a zinc-lime vat. yes, i was  starting doing aizome and the only recipe i had was the shibori book by wada. in terms of aizome  i just started the house by the roof :-&

the knits are samples some freshly dyed, some recouped from other unsuccessful vats. but the warp yarns!

the warp yarns in  the second and third photos are a success story big time  :) dunk, wait, pull out, oxidise and  it rocks! 10 summers and i got it at last.

as i'm writing this post i'm realizing how much i've learned. and how much there is still to learn.

neki desu

no rocket science, it's the colors, dummy!

a simple but effective 12 sha advancing point treadling.

it's the colors you dummy, being soft on myself paraphrasing that famous clinton's campaign aide. showing most of the draft a repeat missing, but you get the idea don't you?

colors on a well tensioned warp speak to any weaver.
and since they will always photograph somewhat off with the equipment and know-how i have

let's go for it and have some photofun!

neki desu