Category: business
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Labour Intensive
Why do I weave, anyway? Such a hard question to answer. All I know is that it called to me, over and over again, until I could no longer ignore the siren call of the yarns, the equipment. Frankly I could have made a whole lot more money in a more ‘traditional’ job, one where…
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She Persisted
#shepersisted I try to not use the forum of this blog for political comment. Recent events have made that increasingly difficult. I am an old white woman living in Canada. That gives me certain…privileges…that others do not share. I also happen to be liberal leaning in my politics. Recently a female politician in the United…
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#fairfiberwage
There was a lot of discussion about fibre instructors getting a #fairfiberwage over the Labour Day weekend and a few weeks afterward. But there is another aspect of getting a decent wage from fibres and that is from selling textiles. I chose to become a professional/production weaver about 41 years ago. I have been doing…
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The Wall
There are times in life when we ‘hit the wall’ – as the marathon saying goes. We dream big dreams, set huge goals, get carried away with this fantastic idea – which may take a great deal of effort, time and energy to complete. When the energy runs out before the goal is achieved, what…
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Showing Up
People often comment on how much I get done. What they don’t realize is that a) weaving is my job and b) I really don’t do anything else. Thing is, when you are self-employed, every day is a potential workday. (It’s also a potential day off, but if you have too many of those, nothing,…
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Satisfaction
The beginning of the end…this is the last of the painted warps for scarves and it is now officially ‘done’. Weaving, that is. Thinking a lot about Life and whatnot. In the 1960’s the Rolling Stones famously sang You Can’t Get No Satisfaction. For a while I believed that. If anyone had told me that…
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Musings
When the loom is working and only surface attention is required my mind can wander and think about other things. One of the things I ponder is how much I ought to be adding to the carbon footprint of the world, the glut of textiles available in the ‘first’ world and if I should really…
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Musings
When the loom is working and only surface attention is required my mind can wander and think about other things. One of the things I ponder is how much I ought to be adding to the carbon footprint of the world, the glut of textiles available in the ‘first’ world and if I should really…
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Endings
Endings in weaving aren’t really endings at all. Yes, I cut this warp off the loom today so that could be considered ‘ended’. But it’s not close to ‘done’ yet. The cloth roll is being cut and serged in preparation for wet finishing. After pressing, they still need to be hemmed, pressed again and then…
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Contingency Plans
Warp at about the half way mark – it’s slow going with needing a temple and trying to catch the weft loops that bubble up in the shed. However, I am at the half way mark! I’m doing four different weft colours and weaving them in rotation so that I have an equal number of…