a beatles song

this has been a long and winding road.warp has patiently waited for a year to be threaded and reeded.

that was  a  piece of cake  because none of us was doing anything, but once i started mishaps also started. in my kaizen mode i did something every day trying to improve the previous day. and it went so so.

then problems with the electronics began ;the loom was not speaking to the laptop, an ancient number running on win xp. to sum it up it was a combination of the magnet placed with the wrong pole up and me opening the program and then the loom ⋋__⋌  that's how ancient the OS is.

hurdle  overcome on to next. had to re thread re reed from the center out towards the left. still not getting proper lifts.to make it short there was a yarn twisted on itself and attached to the cord that moves the pedal. three days threading and re threading! and as it always happens it wasn't near the selvedges.

(>人<)

 the warp is 48/2 cashmere weft  42/2 merino and cashmere.

finally all set now weaving the color blanket, narrowing down possibilities.thinking of a project with paper yarn which has to be made but enthused about it now that i was able to locate kudzu locally.

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a double duh! moment

god created freezer paper  to make stenciling easier. no spray adhesive, something outrageously expensive here, no nada. especially great when you want big shapes.

cut my fave flowerlike blob and printed with mordant paste easy peasy.

then thought that i could use the paste to recreate some sort of shibori lines 

why not try and see? going to also try this

in the next module which is adding thickened color. 

picasso said that inspiration  came while working or something to that effect. he was right.

 

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