extra uses

one of my hidden pleasures is finding other uses for things in general and tools in particular.

the tensioning unit was a sudden inspiration as a helper in winding bobbins with (overtwisted)  ultra fine crepe silk. nice tight well behaved bobbins ＼（＾▽＾）／

my bestie from the old, old days will be in town for a week therefore my presence here is going to be haphazard.



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and there was one

loom parts. the hack was re designed for simplicity's sake. taking both uprights to the carpenter to be duplicated.these in turn will be bolted to the horizontals that serve as "feet" one of the beams needs to be set up with the sectional kit. guess summer will still find it as is.the carpenter is awol.

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at last

sample warp finished.i was working on the table loom so it took its time.double weave stripes in white crepe wool 32 tpi and grey merino. the second half is the wool stainless yarn i bought in japan.

off the loom and it's already wavy.

the stainless-wool half

the merino half.it shrank a lot more than the wool stainless,pushing out the white wool crepe into little kinks

tieying another sample to the left over thrums, this time silk.




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until next year

just over. one of the best hanami places in tokyo
have a great weekend






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blast from the past

found these from 2005 and they are not entirely bad. still like them. woven in hemp and merino wool, wet finished in hot water.then stitched and assembled on digitally printed organza. some stitching added.


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of packaging

my new sectional beam and underslung beater aka free standing.

so well made i'm delaying opening it. and fast delivery. Louet rocks.

tomorrow i'll start drilling holes, and pinning down the carpenter.

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of a traveled road

i was still finding my way with my gifted brother 890 when i came acrosss pamela cruise's blog.

it was a wow moment when i saw her artwok. besides wearables she was knitting images and creating very sensitive pieces. having been always interested in rendering images on textiles i thought i would like to explore that road.

i was aware of the need of electronics to be able to work in that way.  luckily some time later i had the opportunity to buy a brother 940 electronic knitting machine.

incessantly perusing the internet trying to find an alternative to the very pricy program and cables on the market i came across the hacker geeks who were coding and hacking e-machines to suit their needs. the scenario way too above my head,but voila! it could be done. that led me to arduino. 

meanwhile some other group of geeks were developing an alternative to the commercial program ,but for mac.woe is me!after much kvetch from the pc crowd the pc version was presented. i was on my way.

images, i have tons and have never presented a problem for me. i could create images from my images by manipulating them in photoshop.there were also applets out there in the geek world which could generate images from math as the cell automata.  exciting possibilities for someone not particularly  married to the literal as alice says. 

i just needed to work on the knitting technique and learn it. so i burned yarn as if it was going out of style until i started producing work that would not embarrass me or my relatives.

that in a mango fruit-one cannot say nutshell because of the extension- has been the road i've been traveling for the past 3-4 years. from the first crop i showed a work last year.

and now 2 of my pieces are going to be shown.

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