Author: Laura Fry
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Tracking
I did an article for WEFT (vol 1?) that talked about tracking, and included a photo of a cloth woven in twill and showed the tracking effect on that twill cloth. It was very subtle, and hard to see, but if I looked closely enough, it was clearly there. The thing is, tracking is…
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Check Your Sources
Let me be clear – I loath LLM/AI. Like, with a passion. There are a number of reasons for that, but mostly? I hate how LLM/AI is designed to be a ‘lying machine’. A person asks a question – in good faith – and expects a semblance of the truth to be delivered. Instead…
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Soap/Detergent
Clear water before adding soap (left) and detergent (right) After stirring in the soap and detergent I don’t know how long the link will be active but the video can be seen on my Facebook page here. I live in an area that has ‘hard’ water – i.e. naturally occurring minerals dissolved in the…
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Soap/Detergent
Clear water before adding soap (left) and detergent (right) After stirring in the soap and detergent I don’t know how long the link will be active but the video can be seen on my Facebook page here. I live in an area that has ‘hard’ water – i.e. naturally occurring minerals dissolved in the…
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Soap/Detergent
Clear water before adding soap (left) and detergent (right) After stirring in the soap and detergent I don’t know how long the link will be active but the video can be seen on my Facebook page here. I live in an area that has ‘hard’ water – i.e. naturally occurring minerals dissolved in the…
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Time Passes
This was the scene out my window a while ago. The autumn rains and wind have done a pretty good job of stripping the leaves from the trees, but we still have not had a ‘hard’ frost. The grey dreary days have been wearing on me as I continue to try and sort out…
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Magic in the Water
Having been in the field of weaving (doing it, teaching it, writing about it) I’ve gotten to know quite a few weavers. Some have been friends. One of them died a few months ago, after years of health problems, and the other day her daughter began listing some of her weaving books for sale. …
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Doh-See-Doh
The other night I had enough spoons I could start dragging out the bin of cashmere, and dug out some of the dyed silk I inherited from a weaver. At the time, I wasn’t sure what I could do with the skeins of silk, all in 30/2 size, each skein a different hue/value. Some…
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Stash Diving
gaping ‘holes’ on the shelves because most of it is packed up for the craft fair/guild room sales Given my conundrum – running ‘low’ on 2/16 cotton, can’t decide what colour(s) to buy to keep going with the towel weaving, I spent some quality time with my yarn stash. It took a while, but…
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An Educated Guess
My ‘guestimate’ at 27 being the ‘proper’ density for this textile appears to have been pretty close. Now, things will change during wet finishing, and this angle (tension has been released on the warp) is almost ‘too good’ at very nearly 45 degrees. The weft is thicker than the warp, and that means it…