best of both worlds

A film by Jim Le Fevre, Mike Paterson and Roops and Al Johnstone (RAMP ceramics), commissioned by the Crafts Council.

via margreet. thanks for pointing it!

have a great weekend. and stay warm.


neki desu

reprise

heddles

all that new year furor weaving and tidying left me with a swollen ring finger on my right hand. downtime today.
i'm posting the last of the photos i took at the ethnography museum in ripoll.
besides wool, the town also had a thriving jute industry.  jute was grown, spinned and manufactured into coarse cloth and sacks.

old barn loom.

 reeds and spinning wheel

neki desu

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