Category: A Good Yarn: Rayon
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The Big Picture
Sometimes, in order to understand the big picture, you need to be aware of the finer details. So it is with fibres and yarn. The above images are Scanning Electron Microscope images of, in this case, cotton. The fibre once harvested ‘collapses’ into a flat ribbon with a twist in it. This gives the fibre…
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Reality
There are eleven copies of A Good Yarn: Rayon with woven samples (before and after wet finishing) left. Once these are gone, I doubt very much any publication I do in the future will have samples. In fact, I can pretty much guarantee it. Not because I can’t weave the samples or put the publication…
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Ground Hog Day
Look familiar? It should. It’s the state of the studio – still. I’m beginning to feel like a character in Ground Hog Day – you know, the same day that dawns over and over again? I’ve not touched the looms at all for days because it has been a repeat of warp winding, cone winding,…
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Mocha
This past weekend was the guild sale/demo. Unfortunately it was rather more quiet than hoped, but a few of my ‘discontinued’ items found new homes so that made me happy. On Sunday Doug went pressing and brought home the finished, finished, red tea towels plus a bucket full of the chocolate brown weft towels. I…
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Mocha
This past weekend was the guild sale/demo. Unfortunately it was rather more quiet than hoped, but a few of my ‘discontinued’ items found new homes so that made me happy. On Sunday Doug went pressing and brought home the finished, finished, red tea towels plus a bucket full of the chocolate brown weft towels. I…
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Cyber Monday, My Way
Since I still have inventory that I would love see go to a new loving home, and since it would be nice to join in the spirit by having a sale, I am reprising my ‘buy two (or more) and get free shipping’ sale that I did over the summer. What there is: Weave a…
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Publication Info
I’ve been assuming that people already know what A Good Yarn: Rayon and Weave a V are all about. So for those of you who do already know you may want to skip the rest of this post. Or you might want to give me some feedback on the question of digitizing the series… A…
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Publication Info
I’ve been assuming that people already know what A Good Yarn: Rayon and Weave a V are all about. So for those of you who do already know you may want to skip the rest of this post. Or you might want to give me some feedback on the question of digitizing the series… A…
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July Special Deal cont’d
A Good Yarn: Cotton (2 copies), A Good Yarn: Rayon (way too many copies left – 40?) are sample packets with explanations of the fibre characteristics of each yarn. Cotton has 10 projects with before and after wet finished actual fabric samples. Rayon has 7.In addition to my own titles I published Kerstin Froberg’s Weave A V.…
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July Special Deal cont’d
A Good Yarn: Cotton (2 copies), A Good Yarn: Rayon (way too many copies left – 40?) are sample packets with explanations of the fibre characteristics of each yarn. Cotton has 10 projects with before and after wet finished actual fabric samples. Rayon has 7.In addition to my own titles I published Kerstin Froberg’s Weave A V.…