Author: Laura Fry
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Following the Threads
This is one repeat of the design we call Swedish Snowflake. It is usually threaded over 8 shafts although it *can* be done on 4 – but with less definition. Since I’ve had 16 shafts since, I dunno, sometime in the 1980s, I tend to thread warps over all 16. It allows me to…
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Following the Threads
This is one repeat of the design we call Swedish Snowflake. It is usually threaded over 8 shafts although it *can* be done on 4 – but with less definition. Since I’ve had 16 shafts since, I dunno, sometime in the 1980s, I tend to thread warps over all 16. It allows me to…
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It Takes Two
Ever danced? Ever danced with someone who didn’t want to? Or wasn’t very good at it? Sometimes it is just ‘easier’ to walk away and find a new partner… Right now I see multiple people advising the ‘left’ to find a way to ‘work with’ the alt right. Except, how do you manage to…
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Sampling
There are actually two samples in the photo – one was woven with 20/2 unmercerized white, the other was woven with 2/20 mercerized ‘natural’. But what I want to point out today is the selvedge. There are so many people who insist that a selvedge *must* be plain weave. But here’s the thing –…
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Of Tariffs
One brave person ordered a towel as a gift, which I got into the mail last Friday. It was too late for the truck to Vancouver, so it didn’t get there until Monday, and when the post office attempted to transfer it to the custody of US Customs/USPS, welp, I don’t know what happened, but…
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Canada
I remember how controversial the idea was, to create a ‘new’ Canadian flag. How many poo-poo’d the idea, some complained about the expense, etc. Some people objected because ‘you can’t just *change* the flag’! I never saw the controversy, myself. I thought the idea of using the maple leaf as a symbol was, well,…