lmcmf

acronym for let me check my files.have you ever asked information about a technique and gotten that answer?it's  code for not in a million years i'm sharing.

luckily those are exceptions because most people believe in knowledge transfer.

with a little help from my friends i got directions and web pages about how to process paper and turn it into yarn.

i've embarked in this for a project i've been pondering.not intending to devote my life to shifu or the way to turn paper into thread and weave with it.




already cut

rough spinning, turning strips into yarn.
love the name in japanese kami ito= paper yarn.













neki desu
 

working hard

silk mania.
have a good weekend







neki desu
 

kibiso romance

this is kibiso, silk waste turned into a yarn so to speak.irregular,bast but with an incomparable sheen while at the same time being matte.

got it in kyoto at a shop on horikawa close to the nishijin textile museum. always stop there and always find surprising things. this time an unfortunate surprise, as the lady behind the counter mentioned while we chatted that her husband, the person who tended the shop, had passed away the last year.

                                                                                    kibiso is full of rustic charm, very poetic in the way it weaves

 

this is kami ito, paper yarn, bought at avril when it was still on sanjo dori. now they are somewhere in the north of the city out of the beaten track. that's good for the pocket.

both are going to be used  on the next project.

neki desu