Category: fulling wool
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Wet Finishing Woolens
This fabric was woven and then taken to Sweden, then to a vadmalstamp in Norway to be wet finished. The round piece in the upper left was finished in the stamp for 90 minutes. Kerstin then turned some of the cloth into a German berger’s hat. (German merchant) Going to the stamp was experimental, exploration,…
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Wet Finishing Woolens
This fabric was woven and then taken to Sweden, then to a vadmalstamp in Norway to be wet finished. The round piece in the upper left was finished in the stamp for 90 minutes. Kerstin then turned some of the cloth into a German berger’s hat. (German merchant) Going to the stamp was experimental, exploration,…
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Wet Finishing Woolens
This fabric was woven and then taken to Sweden, then to a vadmalstamp in Norway to be wet finished. The round piece in the upper left was finished in the stamp for 90 minutes. Kerstin then turned some of the cloth into a German berger’s hat. (German merchant) Going to the stamp was experimental, exploration,…
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Sampling
Although I’ve worked with ‘collapse’ weaves and shrinkage differential quite a bit, ultimately every time you change yarns you have to sample. If you don’t you risk losing the entire project. So even though I know from previous sampling that the white yarn (Henry’s Attic Pony Worsted) fulls very well I’ve not actually combined it…
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Coat with Angora
This cloth was traded for a piece of bobbin lace made by a friend – she tried very hard to get me making lace. At the time I resisted but eventually did take up the craft a number of years later. 🙂 One layer is 2/8 cotton, the other layer is a wool/angora blend. The photograph isn’t…
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Another Coat
This coat fabric turned into more of an adventure than I expected. Up until this fabric, all of the wool I had worked with fulled. Some more than others, but they could all be made to full. And so when I bought this lovely blue/green worsted yarn, it was with the intent of fulling it…
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Another Garment
This is another of the garments done for the monograph for GCW. I was exploring how to make fabric for warm clothing – jackets and coats. Darlene sewed most of them. The above jacket was used as my primary winter jacket for about 7 years. The base fabric was, again, Harris Tweed, with a very…
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CD Weaver
After publishing Magic in the Water; wet finishing handwovens, people started asking when I would be producing a video. I was highly reluctant to do this for several reasons. First, I had done just enough video camera work to know exactly how difficult it is to get good video. Secondly, I knew that in order…