seen, bought and experienced.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
this one is about history
found this in the proverbial bottom drawer.one of my first projects using an 8 shaft loom, oh luxury!there i discovered i did not want to spend the rest of my life under a loom tieying treadles and having read about dobby looms around that time i knew that was the way to go.
this was so early in my weaving life that i didn't know about linen and its special conditions so i wove away. ignorance was not bliss. that and a woman who freaked out and started acting weird because she was a self appointed weaving goddess and didn't understand what i was doing. she reacted by wanting to evict me first from the loom ,as she claimed she needed it, then from the classroom because she felt threatened. another lesson learned. life is too short to deal with other people's insecurities. so i settled into weaving by myself. and so i went on until the internet.
back to me,me : this was a long linen warp so i could weave lots of different options with it. and there i started painting warps too. these two in the photos were at the beginning of the warp, testing the pattern, a honeycomb from my first weaving book ,the else regensteiner book . i still was following recipes, but learned that i wanted to design my own stuff. i had all these visions!
over the weekend i thought i could sew both together and make a linen table runner.after all these years stashed away! i also found some of the other projects from that warp. this is going to be a week full of weaving posts!
i'm taking commemorative stroll today ;-)
neki desu
Monday, March 26, 2012
pleased to inform
that the usb/port adapter finally arrived from la france. was installed over the weekend by the resident geek and i am now threading the dobby loom. had to start from the beginning because as the old laptop fried the weaving program had to be re installed and the point where i left was lost. i'm not complaining. the fall of saigon was much worse.
neki desu
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