Author: Laura Fry
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The Life So Short…
Would you believe that both of the above yarns have the same fibre content (cotton) AND have the same number of yards per pound? Well, they do. But that’s the thing about assumptions. They will trip us up at times. I made an assumption about an issue another weaver was having and I assumed…
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Books (sort of)
baby rattle carved by my father 75 years ago for me, his eldest child I have begun reading more regularly again. My brain feels less…porous…more able to contain a thought for more than a minute or two. My reading tastes have always been eclectic. I not only loved stories, especially ones that helped explain…
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Handweavers Guild of America – Textiles and Tea
Registration Link A few months ago I was contacted by HGA to see if I would be part of their Textiles and Tea series. I thought long and hard about it, not sure if I could successfully participate. I was still frequently blanking on words I wanted to use, and trying to hold a…
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Flax vs Cotton
Fabric Science 7th edition page 23 cotton (left) and flax (right) Textile Science 2nd edition page 51 flax A while ago I was reading an article about a new discovery that placed humans working with fibres back even further than we thought previously. Textiles tend to degrade and discoveries were rare, or were dismissed…
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Selvedges
Selvedges (click on word for all 21 posts written under that label) Someone asked about my selvedges in the previous post – it appeared that the selvedge thread was not ‘attached’ to the cloth well (I paraphrase). It’s true. I don’t always have a selvedge that has a ‘firmly attached’ selvedge thread. In the…
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Random Thoughts on a Sunday
The yarn in this warp is 50/50 pale blue and a pale but fairly ‘bright’ green. You might want to biggify it (click on the image) so that you can see the two colours better. Frankly, I wasn’t sure the combination would ‘work’ but as I beamed the warp, the overall appearance was one…
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Reflections
This is a photo that appeared in an old issue of National Geographic a while ago. I thought it was an excellent example of a variety of ‘natural’ fibres, showing how each of them look as a single fibre. I used it (with credit, of course) in some presentations I used to do because…
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Reflections
This is a photo that appeared in an old issue of National Geographic a while ago. I thought it was an excellent example of a variety of ‘natural’ fibres, showing how each of them look as a single fibre. I used it (with credit, of course) in some presentations I used to do because…
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Reflections
This is a photo that appeared in an old issue of National Geographic a while ago. I thought it was an excellent example of a variety of ‘natural’ fibres, showing how each of them look as a single fibre. I used it (with credit, of course) in some presentations I used to do because…
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Reflections
This is a photo that appeared in an old issue of National Geographic a while ago. I thought it was an excellent example of a variety of ‘natural’ fibres, showing how each of them look as a single fibre. I used it (with credit, of course) in some presentations I used to do because…