the poetry of threads

reiko sudo, arai junichi,chiaki maki, michiko uehara and all the textile stars of japan
have a great weekend,







neki desu

devorè revisited

looks pretty unappealing oi? wire knitted  and linen knitted together in a technique called plating.

each yarn knits on one side so you have a *double knit *the technique presented some issues that i'm sure practice will sooth.also tested a thicker cotton yarn with the wire at the top.being thicker, the cotton covers the wire better.

linen and mono-filament, my latest best friend.

 the devorè part using fiber etch.

 the linen mono-filament needs more tweaking in terms of temperature.if hot enough to dissolve the linen it will melt the mono filament :(

wire presents no problem. however the frayed edges need some treatment to appease the architects surrounding me. or not. next will be aging the wire.

had tried devorè on some woven silk linen pieces time ago and on commercially woven silk linen fabric.

 all the knitting activity is because i'm waiting for more heddles to arrive.the thinner the yarn i use the shorter i am on heddles. and to think my dobby loom is just 70 ms wide.

on the life in general department started aqua gym this week.quite a workout!

and got great tickets for the opera.thrilled that in my new town one can enjoy opera without having to sell either the firstborn or the spouse or both.

neki desu

star of the show

serger mono-filament thread, 17,000 meters of it.wonderfully liberating as it won't run out at least in this lifetime-famous last words.
 sampling like crazy and learning how to work with it.

                                                                                       
                                                                               
your regular stockinette, now you see it,after you cast off you don't see it

keeping up with the wire trend, too bad this one
which knits very well is coated and does not patinize.

with metallic yarn. next step will be trying to zap it with the heat gun.

using a punch card pattern. it flows well from the cone, nothing jams in the k machine.
















neki desu