Category: https://ko-fi.com/laurafry
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That Ol’ Magic in the Water
Over the course of my career I have spent hundreds of hours trying to explain to people what wet finishing is, why it needs to be done, and why I don’t tell people to ‘just wash it’. I have documented the process, in print, in videos, in person and now, remotely. I rather suspect…
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Overview
Not ‘eye candy’ photo, but showing more of the design. It still isn’t all visible, but I think you can get a better idea of what the towel looks like, including the hem area. I generally weave a hem area, in part to let myself know when I’m reaching the end of the towel. …
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Not Done
Latest ’tiles’ design, loom state Yesterday I cut the first seven towels off the loom so I finally got a good look at what is intended to be the ‘right’ side of the cloth. It’s still not ‘finished’, so it will change when it hits the water for the first time, but the photo…
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Expectations/Reality
Re-learning bobbin lace is almost like starting over again, from scratch. OTOH, I have been a bit surprised – and very pleased – that if I just trust my hands, they actually remember. Quite a lot, to be honest. I made dozens of these little birds about 20 years ago, so I got pretty…
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Feeling the Love
Yesterday I finished the peacock blue weft and started weaving with the natural white. This is intended to be the ‘back’ side of the cloth, but weaving it ‘upside down’ means I lift just 6 shafts, not 10, so that’s what I do. (Some people call it ‘lazy’, I call it ‘efficient’.) Yesterday I…
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Ko-Fi Updates
The current towels are difficult to see, in part because the repeat is bigger than the space up on top of the loom, in part because I’m using one of the warp colours as weft. I have managed to update my ko-fi shop with four more ‘matrix’ designs, and I am feeling a bit,…
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Iterations
After posting about how long it may take to develop a draft, lo, gaze upon this one – which took 6 iterations and about 6 plus hours to get to this stage. (It may have been longer, I spent nearly two hours just on this one.) The design is quadruples and isn’t actually how…
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How Long Does It Take?
chameleon This is the warp going into the loom at the moment. It was inspired by ‘snake skin’ but the warp colour is a combination of two blues (peacock and bleu moyen from Brassard) so I’m calling it ‘chameleon’. The first weft will be navy with a slightly purplish cast, from Borgs (I think…
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To Write a Book
This morning I saw a post on Facebook from an author holding a copy of a book they wrote in a bookstore with an expression of delight/amazement as they held their actual real book in their hands in a real, actual bookstore. And I thought about the road I chose, which was to be…
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Snow!
My town sits on the confluence of two rivers and not too far away from where I live is a slough which is a protected wetlands area. It has beaver and muskrats, ducks and other wildfowl. It is a popular place to go walking. Right now we are in the midst of a snow…