good ideas

poor execution. cochineal overprinted w mordant paste and then dyed in logwood.

logwood is so vile it overshadowed the cochineal.

just to think that then it will fade to almost white since it's not lightfast.  ಠ ಠ   

i need/ want to explore this  overprinting stuff.

 been fighting with stencils and a way to fix them to the cloth as it is mission impossible to find spray adhesive . don't know what happened but it  disappeared from the market.

 then, tadum, freezer paper came to the rescue.

every time i go to the u.s. i bring back rolls and rolls because it's a crafts staple.

cutting stencils from freezer paper is  fun easy and incredibly operative.

it worked well,but i forgot to dunge the work therefore the wash off was significant. these are processes that i want them to become automatic, then i can concentrate on the product.

i am learning quite a lot from the workshop, even taking notes, but i need to move on to module 2.!

neki desu

 

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.

neki desu

    

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