Author: Laura Fry
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Production Line
I bit the proverbial bullet today and started working on the samples – again. What you see in the photo are just *some* of the samples I wove – there is a bin on the back of the loom with more in it – because there just wasn’t enough room on my work table…
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The Bog of Life
one repeat and borders of the Swedish Snowflake design Recently I have been playing around with the ‘Swedish Snowflake’ draft. One of the things I like to do is muck about and find out what other options are available within a threading draft, especially in the twill ‘family’. In the meantime, Life goes on,…
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The Bog of Life
one repeat and borders of the Swedish Snowflake design Recently I have been playing around with the ‘Swedish Snowflake’ draft. One of the things I like to do is muck about and find out what other options are available within a threading draft, especially in the twill ‘family’. In the meantime, Life goes on,…
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The Bog of Life
one repeat and borders of the Swedish Snowflake design Recently I have been playing around with the ‘Swedish Snowflake’ draft. One of the things I like to do is muck about and find out what other options are available within a threading draft, especially in the twill ‘family’. In the meantime, Life goes on,…
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Best Laid Plans (and all that)
Human beings, generally, are planners. We tend to make plans that are do-able, frequently ‘best case scenario’. It’s hard to think about the things that will tend to throw our plans ‘off’ when that nice straight line is sooooo attractive! But reality is that most people’s lives do not proceed in a nice straight…
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Debut
Yesterday I got a peep at the new WEFT magazine. I have enjoyed writing several articles for WEFT, and am working on the next. (Just finished roughing out the draft for one of the examples.) One of the things I am struggling with right now is a distinct lack of energy. I’m not sleeping…
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New Weavers
after wet finishing loom state One of the nice things I see is the appearance of new weavers in groups online. It makes me feel good to think that interest in the craft of weaving is continuing to attract new ‘younger’ weavers. I’m also very happy to see some of these new weavers asking…
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Community
When my samples were returned from WEFT after being photographed, they included a lapel button. For a moment I had regrets that I am no longer travelling so that I could go to a conference and wear my ‘contributor’ button. I’ve been contributing to magazines for a rather long time, so it’s not like…
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Report From the Fell
tea towel with cut line woven in for easy cutting/serging What goes into the creative act? Things. Lots and lots of…things. Lots and lots of thinking. Many times the thoughts are barely conscious, hardly noticeable. Many times I come away from the loom realizing that I’d been thinking about the ‘next’ warp the whole…
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WEFT
honeycomb – loom state honeycomb – wet finished Well, here we are – March 25. As in, *nearly* April – and the debut of the magazine WEFT. I’ve just spent the morning reading through ‘proofs’ (not sure that they are called that anymore – yes I’m *that* old!) and sending them back approved or…