this is the end my friends.

 

when the little knots touch the heddle eyes. i could get 10-15 cms more, perhaps 20, but the knots start  getting tangled and life's too short.

friday i'll start re tieing and re sleying as this warp was 2 ends x dent on a 4 ends xcm  reed.

next one'll be my regular silk @20 2nds x cm. still for sampling crepes .

i had to drag myself from the computer because alice's crepe action is absolutely addictive.

i love actions for photos ( can't you tell ?) and actions for weaving are, well, beyond words.

my excitement aside from combining geekery and weaving is because the resulting weaves are ideal for wearables.and i'm on a mission of stash reducing and making my own clothes.
rebellious  little me wants to wear what i want not what i can find in stores.

in a nutshell the action transforms colors into  matrices that can be woven.

i got this crepe from the 12x12 matrix on the side doubled to fit a 24 shaft pplan . three pattern repeats are  illustrated.

the matrix was created  from a medium grayish blue,

 like worn jeans, but not too distressed. i've found  most colors in the mid values yield good weavable results and the pure values do not seem to work for me.

the verry good news is that since it's a textual kind of weaving you do not need gazzilion shafts, you can work them with the multiples of 4.
 (alice correct me if i'm wrong because math is not my thing.)
you can download the action and the crepe overlay from her blog.

 i warned you. it's an addictive process.

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creping

this is the hilarious way english is spoken here  in jest. remember in grade school when we pretended to speak french by ending all words in an accented è? well here the joke is adding ing to words ergo bicing, sofing, vueling...

 so i am sampling-that's english!-using the leftover silk warp and i'm creping-that's spanglish-using alice's crepe structures as a springboard. the first one in the photo from the bottom is with a same grist silk yarn and the second one with a much thinner yarn. plan to use a crepe yarn too and if i have enough warp maybe my fine 48/2 merino. let's see how it all reacts after wet finishing. after this i'll rewarp with a much finer silk and do it all again . then on to study the difference.

don't be impressed, i'm doing all this as a delay tactic. have to finish re thereading the dobby(still) and make up my mind whether to leave this as a scarf or use it as inset  panels for a top. it's already finished, but  haven't  wet finished it yet as the use will dictate whether to twist the fringe or cut it. and as every weaver knows, twisting the fringe comes before wet finishing. you don't want to know how i learned that simple truth.



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my bad

for not contextualizing hannah arendt's remark.

she was a german thinker and also a jew during world war two.

it is not difficult to imagine the intellectual and emotional  turmoil she lived through in those years and afterwards  with the findings and the trials. 

to form a better opinion  i reccomend   eichmann in jerusalem a report on the banality of evil.

more of sennet:

"Craftsmanship names an enduring basic human principle the desire to do a job well done for its own sake....
the craftsman often faces conflicting objective standards of excellence; the desire to do something well for its own sake can be impaired by competitive pressure, by frustration or by obsession.....
every good craftsman conducts a dialog between concrete practices and thinking; this dialogue evolves into sustaining habits, and these habits establish a rhythm between problem solving and problem finding.."

 words to be thought and re thought. and what's fascinating is that  he  goes beyond manual labor and includes  the code writer, the cook, the good parent, the doctor.....

and humbly sampling on the knitting machine. learning to hang, twist and move stitches.



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