Tuesday, July 23, 2024

bouncing off the walls in good company

most likely the big girls already know about this . but i just discovered it and have been doing computer time for the past week.i feel like the joan didion aphorism :

One of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.”― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

(what a sentence!and the relative clause changing the rythm!!)

i'm using fiberworks and schematically this is what i found:

draw a curved line as for network the height of your number of shafts.
menu-warp- redraw on network i'm using rosepath 6 ends
menu-warp-paralell repeat-extended paralell shaft shift by in this case 12 (half of 24)
select warp- menu paralell repeat -extended paralell shaft shift by (in this case multiple of 12) 3
that's all.you get 4 lines to work with.
the key is in shifting shafts by a multiple of the network initial. try using all the possibilities given surprising outcomes await.
for the pegplan cut and paste the ribbon i'm using a 6 end point initial warp and weft face inclusive

what i heard people doing was copying the resulting paralell threading pasting it in another draft and using interleave. you needed to work clearing the threading because it didn't give clean threadings most of the time. you needed to shift one of them up and both operations could become messy.

it is also a clean method for using initials other than the 4 end.

warning: there are some threadings,lines combinations that work better than others.the intention is to produce a clean threading with no additional work clearing double threads etc.

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all these years spent clearing messy interleaved threadings. the good news is that i won't die ignorant.

neki desu

Monday, July 22, 2024

of colors

the other day went to the mall with a friend.had been lond since i was at the mall and also with a friend doing girly things. she wanted to buy some nail polish and once at the cosmetic shop i bit the bait.

as the japanese doramas have taught, orange eyeshadow looks good with dark eyes.so there i was. the only time i wear makeup is when i go to the opera. full regalia: makeup, dress up, nice shoes, jewelry et all. sas a result i think my make up dates from the 70's. T__T

fast forward. bought the kit on the left as the colors along with the coveted orange looked promising.

oohh war paint! we went to a lingerie strore and a shoe store. while she was trying on shoes i curiously looked at the backside of makeup case,something i should have done at the strore.

lo and behold make up made in the prc.yep,china. they are notorious for using non standard (being kind here) ingredients in everything. not desiring to risk blindness went to another store firsts one didn't accept devolutions(alarm) and come to think of it for 5€ what was to be expected. that shows how incredibly uncouth i am makeup wise. the second case on the right was 20€ made in turkey (almost europe) and under german supervision.this sounds racist,but it isn't. the germans have to comply with european safety and health standards.in a nutshell this makeup won't cause blindness.