Author: Laura Fry
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Stash Reduction
These are the oopsie towels (one of them, at least). The face I see becomes the ‘back’ and is more white; the front shows more of the warp and looks more blue/grey. A subtle difference my ipad doesn’t capture well. But the towels after wet finishing show a nice bit of texture. I’m going…
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Security
top of shafts, some of them with ‘keeper strings’, some without Someone commented on a group that they were getting fed up with the heddles on their loom ‘falling’ off the shafts and wondered what other people do. I am quite sure that there are many ways to address this issue, but I have…
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Weaving With Intention
“Why did you call your book The Intentional Weaver; how to weave better?” Well, that’s a bit of a story. I had transitioned from teaching beginning classes to workshops for beyond beginners. And it became clear as I taught various groups that there were some…holes…in the foundations of some weavers. Not just wet finishing,…
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Seasons Change
I live in a part of the world where seasons change. When the mountain ash don their orange foliage, we know it’s autumn. And then…winter. With climate change, though, the seasons are no longer predictable. Or ‘normal’. Now we have wildfire season, flood season, landslide season. After the wildfires in the summer, the autumn…
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Try, Try, Try Again
samples prepped to be cut apart One of the best ways to learn is to weave samples. I know, I know. Folk want to cut to the good part – making perfect textiles. Heh. At times people will express frustration. Things go wrong. Things don’t turn out. Their best laid plans don’t end up…
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Making Plans
If there is one thing that has finally lodged in my brain, it is that…I need to be aware of my ‘stuff’ and deal with it. I have helped distribute the weaving studios (and more) of 3 or 4 other weavers, over the years. And it is difficult to think about, but I need…
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Reflections On Where We Are
I have seen this post multiple times, but I thought this version was particularly eloquent. We watched a program on homo sapiens the other night and the archeologists were reporting on new findings that push the ‘rise’ of homo sapiens even further back than was thought. Which means that we have been here, on…
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It Depends (honestly!)
Me, here, again reminding people that the only correct ‘short’ answer when it comes to weaving is…it depends. If you are a long time reader of this blog, I’m quite sure I’ve posted this before (and will, no doubt, post it again). * So, here we have two yarns, both rated to 3360 yards…
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Elder
The photo is of a page from The National Geographic from an issue around the theme of wool. It is a great comparison of the different fibres – and gives a really excellent look at what a single fibre of the main different types of natural fibres look like. Why is this important? Well,…
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Recommendations
throwing the shuttle catching the shuttle I have been taken to task by ‘slow cloth’ folk who lecture me to stop insisting that people weave quickly. What I actually recommend is that people weave *ergonomically*. Generally the result of using ergonomic motions/movements is an increase of efficiency, yes. But mostly what I’m trying to…