Category: A Good Yarn: LandH
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The Wire
As in coming down to, home stretch in sight. Just now cut off the #8 warp for AGY: L and H. In the photo you can see the ‘plain weave’ (although there is no true plain weave with this threading) cut line and the mark the apron rod has left in the cloth. The latter…
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The Incredible Crispness of Linen
Finished taping and cutting the ‘before’ samples this morning and serged the rest in preparation for wet finishing. I am very happy with the collection so far. Since the majority of linen yarns are natural or half-bleached, I have included some cotton to provide a bit of colour and also because linen is expensive, one…
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Piling Up
The warps for AGY:L&H have been coming off the small loom in quite a satisfactory fashion. In order to get as much weaving done as I possibly can before I leave on Friday, I’ve just been piling them up where ever I can find a spot where they won’t get creased too badly. Normally I…
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Piling Up
The warps for AGY:L&H have been coming off the small loom in quite a satisfactory fashion. In order to get as much weaving done as I possibly can before I leave on Friday, I’ve just been piling them up where ever I can find a spot where they won’t get creased too badly. Normally I…
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Piling Up
The warps for AGY:L&H have been coming off the small loom in quite a satisfactory fashion. In order to get as much weaving done as I possibly can before I leave on Friday, I’ve just been piling them up where ever I can find a spot where they won’t get creased too badly. Normally I…
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Piling Up
The warps for AGY:L&H have been coming off the small loom in quite a satisfactory fashion. In order to get as much weaving done as I possibly can before I leave on Friday, I’ve just been piling them up where ever I can find a spot where they won’t get creased too badly. Normally I…
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Piling Up
The warps for AGY:L&H have been coming off the small loom in quite a satisfactory fashion. In order to get as much weaving done as I possibly can before I leave on Friday, I’ve just been piling them up where ever I can find a spot where they won’t get creased too badly. Normally I…
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Piling Up
The warps for AGY:L&H have been coming off the small loom in quite a satisfactory fashion. In order to get as much weaving done as I possibly can before I leave on Friday, I’ve just been piling them up where ever I can find a spot where they won’t get creased too badly. Normally I…
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Under Pressure
With the pressure of getting the warps to be painted completed, the work table is now available to do other things – like continue the samples for AGY: L&H. There is added pressure to get cracking on the publication for several reasons. Doug got up on the roof yesterday because the ice dam over our…
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Perspective
next warp for AGY: L&H – 16/2 linen in natural with fine stripes of half bleached – the green is the yarn used for tying the warp A few days ago The Yarn Harlot started a bit of a discussion about patterns and how much information they should contain. Like knitting, weaving is a technology…