お正月 oshogatsu

changing the tradition, this new year has found me at the looms, so i can participate in meg's a day in the life of looms. this makes me think it is going to be a good year.

i am weaving a scarf in wool with a stripe of very fine crepe wool aka overtwisted  wool.

here's the contraption i had to devise for the overtwisted yarn because i don't have a second beam in my table loom and i also wanted to control those threads varying the tension. i had read somewhere that arai junichi wove with crepe wools in very loose tensions, so ambition blinded me-again- and decided to give it a shot.

the sample: plain weave, this crepe again , crepe wool and merino wool. the plain weave resulted in a too stiff fabric after the slight fulling. i liked what the crepe did so i went along with it.

here's the scarf being woven as window screening-quoting sandra rude. it presents some inconveniences as the crepe stripe is looser, but being so very open it weaves fast. good! because this baby is long.

remainder of the crepe warp being coaxed into behavior for a double weave sample on loom nº 2. note the second warp on the right of the image. both are remnant chains, but given the difficulty of the crepe wool i am contemplating changing and warping front to back.i have to sleep on that.

and last, but not least:
it's not a loom although it can create weaves
( we weavers know better) and it's yarns too.
practicing short rows on the k. machine.

cally booker can you hear all that sampling going on?






happy new year to ya'll and let's get go gogo!




neki desu
 

good tidings to you

may your lights shine bright during  the holidays and  through the rest of the year.
ill be back after the new year.





neki desu
 

baby caps, christening gowns, dollie robes and a sampler

   

exquisite handwork: linen christening robes  and caps with bobbin lace and hand embroidery.

                   

dollie clothes for baby dollies and lady dolls made of paper with the luxury of real lace.

a sampler, one of many. of course all these neither the robes nor the doll's clothes came from a shepherd's family, but from the town's bourgeoisie.

neki desu