Category: hard press
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More Sampling
wet finished and hard pressed on the left; wet finished and left to dry without applying a hard press Yesterday I was able to press the latest load of towels, which also had a sample to find out what the next yarn in the stash I want to focus on in order to weave…
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#4000
Sports coat – silk warp and tabby weft, alpaca pattern weft Blogspot tells me that this is post #4000 since I began blogging in 2008. Over the years I’ve written about a lot of different things. I’ve shared my life, my weaving, what I’m doing, and you, dear reader(s), have come along for the…
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Under Pressure
This morning I pressed the towels that were cut off the loom on Friday, and run through the washing machine last night. The top photo shows the compression line fairly clearly – the bottom half of the cloth is smooth, while above it is not. The middle photo shows the blue ridges of the weave…
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Labour Day Weekend
This is how I spent my Sunday afternoon. When you are self-employed, every day is a potential work day (labour day?) Now I’m ‘steamed’, well and truly. :^) There is a thread on one of the chat lists about whether or not you can unweave when using an end feed shuttle. Well, of course you…
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More Musings
Some of the towels on the towel rack after pressing Pressing is the sort of job that is necessary, so I do it. It’s not something that I love to do, so I play upbeat music (really loudly!) and try not to do more than 90 minutes to two hours at any given time. I…
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A Pressing Matter
I had every intention of threading the AVL today with the warp for the throws (afghans, whatever you call them) but realized that one of the piles threatening to topple over in the studio was the tea towels I’ve woven and that Karena has been diligently cutting apart ready to be wet finished. Decided that…
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Back to Tea Towels
I’m back to the AVL and tea towels, weaving with the single 6’s cotton. My initial choice (to the left) seemed to be a bit flimsy to me, so I decided to change the weave structure and ppi. Instead of a fancy twill, I changed to an advancing twill treadling, and increased the ppi from…
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Back to Tea Towels
I’m back to the AVL and tea towels, weaving with the single 6’s cotton. My initial choice (to the left) seemed to be a bit flimsy to me, so I decided to change the weave structure and ppi. Instead of a fancy twill, I changed to an advancing twill treadling, and increased the ppi from…
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Back to Tea Towels
I’m back to the AVL and tea towels, weaving with the single 6’s cotton. My initial choice (to the left) seemed to be a bit flimsy to me, so I decided to change the weave structure and ppi. Instead of a fancy twill, I changed to an advancing twill treadling, and increased the ppi from…