In just the past few days I have seen quite a few questions about wet finishing on the internet. I try to answer the very specific question, but the issue of wet finishing is…complex.
(I know, I know.)
Magic in the Water is still available as a ‘magazine’ or PDF download from Blurb (link on my website now). If you ever come across an original copy with the samples, it is considered (by some) to be a ‘classic’ and can sometimes be found at estate sales.
My other books are also still available using the same link above. Plus the memoir and some info handouts are available as PDF downloads in my ko-fi shop.
Given the growing incursion of ‘artificial intelligence’ into our craft, I would like to strongly suggest that you buy books written by actual weavers, not machines who know nothing about weaving and have been proven to just…make stuff up, including citations that don’t actually exist. The authors credited with the false citations have loudly let people know that the citations are made up, they never wrote such a paper.
I know of several textile teachers who had their books scraped by AI without their permission and pronounced the stolen rewrites as useless. I have seen AI generated weaving drafts that are, quite simply, not able to be woven. Because AI does not know weaving or anything about it. The illustrations of spinning and weaving equipment I’ve seen are obviously wrong – to someone who actually knows what that equipment looks like. If you don’t, you won’t know it is wrong.
Yes, I know there are valid uses for ‘AI’. Teaching weaving isn’t one of the, IMHO.
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