white silks

all scoured waiting to be dyed. all 7 hanks. most of them are going to be dyed in an ai vat yet to be started. need to buy one of those plastic drums, the small one is sufficiently big. sad because i invested in an electrical stainless beer making vat .but keeping the temp warm is beyond thinking with the  energy prices.lucky bcse i can get them locally at the wonderful hardware stores in town.

different silks, some for warp some for weft and different weights also.

today there's no japanese class and we're going to have lunch in a newly opened izakaya. will report.

neki desu 

 

carried away

layers over layers and the last one blew it hiding all the previous ones.oh well  ¯\ ( ツ ) /¯ this faux pas led me to explore working with and on raw camera files in affinity photo editing program. another trick learned, this one ultra practical.the processing managed to bring out hints of the blue layer beneath the top one.

the coolest one. the flowery image is the bottom of an egg carton would you believe? saw it on ista and culturally appropriated it   <(￣︶￣)>

 ordered two bottles of glycerin at the pharmacy, making one more gelatin plate this time a bigger square.

neki desu

 

akane bounty

and a few others ; the red is cochineal,the mauveish  as well as the beigeish are alkanet the yellowish escapes me.

 

this one is  dark brick with a glow.

happy that silk dyes in the cold bcse electricity prices are nestled in the stratosphere. either we eat or i dye (mind the spelling)

planing the warp, would like to weave a turned taquete. yes, taquete.the term is french bcse the silk industry in france devised the name for the structure and thus it reached us. it was called jin in china and as we all know all comes from china. the cultural appropriation debate is so unpleasantly foolish and so guilt ridden first world. no one thinks that pasta is as much  a cultural appropriation as anything else. so boring and futile. accepting  disagreeing comments  as long as  they are kind and civilised.

neki desu