getting....

pretty silk, dyed with an unrememberd natural dye. perhaps shikon aka gromwell with an alkaline modifier.who remembers,who knows.

the section is already done madder orangey and this blue.

going to warp this section front to back and then  weight it individually in the back. asking for trouble? maybe.

one thing i know it is too difficult to thread from the yarn coming from the back because it is way too thin to be discernible. add frafile points to it and what do you get? the warp from hell suspended in a limbo for one year.

neki desu

 

pot luck

this baby was a self sowing hellebore which surprised me after xmas. let's see what comes out of it as seed propagation plants can be quirky.

still weather wondering, one day cold another springy temps.

the results are worrisome, clematis are coming out,

the camellia is full of blooms,

but they are not opening.

the jasmine has more flowers than in the summer, and it's not the season for that. frost will come and all will suffer. 

 and the layout of this post is sucky, but frankly i'm taking a rest from html.  wysiwyg literally and figuratively.

neki desu

 

an exercise in stubborness

i lack the courage to cut this warp and trash it.it's good silk all dyed with natural dyes. mottainai

so it's been relegated again and again, but have kept me from getting on with life,actually.it's been a year with a fully unusable loom.

 therefore new years resolution is to tackle this %#] warp and move forward. will i succeed? we shall see.

so far the offending section has been takenoff and re,reded using one of my vintage japanese reeds.

and i've started winding bobbins to make up the section. i wonder why the japanese don't use sectional beams working with such fine silks. sectional seems to be a western sort of hit. it seems you dont graduste into the major leagues if you don't use sectional warping.which with all due respect it is a royal p*i*t*a. would like to hear your thoughts on the subject.

neki desu