Category: books
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Elder
The photo is of a page from The National Geographic from an issue around the theme of wool. It is a great comparison of the different fibres – and gives a really excellent look at what a single fibre of the main different types of natural fibres look like. Why is this important? Well,…
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Hand Baskets
Scrolling through some of my old photos, I came across this one that was taken by a professional photographer as part of an effort to produce marketing tools when we were primarily weaving place mats, table runners, etc., and selling them to craft/gift shops. We would attend the Southex Gift Show, held twice a…
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Receipts
I have a few other textile science books, but I didn’t feel like digging any further so this pile of books represents the kind of resource/reference book I own and which I consult frequently (the two standing up) or less frequently (the stacks in front) depending on what I want to check. If you…
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Spring! Sun!
traditional motif of Snails Trails and Cats Paws – in twill blocks, not overshot We are well into spring, now. The plum trees are almost finished blooming, the grass is growing, temps rising. Spring is such a time of hope. It is the time to plant things – and watch them grow. Kind of…
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AI and Me
Lately it seems more and more of ‘life’ on line comes with a helping of ‘artificial intelligence’ – which has less knowledge and more ‘thieving’ to it. Again, I’m seeing a wash of authors speaking up, saying that their books have been stolen by LLM companies to ‘train’ their ‘AI’. When someone who is…
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Step Back to Proceed
I haven’t begun reading Michelle’s book in earnest yet because I have two others that seemed to me to need to be read now. Both are ‘history’, as in recent history, and it seemed a good idea I refresh my memory about some of the things that happened in the 1980’s and forward. People…
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Passing the Torch
One of the things I think about is how knowledge is kept, and how it can be grown. Reading The House of Wisdom by Jim Al-Khalili sent me down all sorts of rabbit warrens as I thought about the body of knowledge contained in the crafts, particularly spinning and weaving (and other related textile…
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P G Fibre Arts Guild Books
There are still some books for sale after the eBay auction. The following is a list (alphabetical by author) with price including shipping to Canada/US. Contact me if you are interested in any of these books. Remember that these prices are in Canadian dollars, and I can take etransfers from Canadians or Paypal from US…