Category: humidor
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Unseen Forces
Thinking about ‘unseen forces’ in weaving, it’s time to remind people that if you live in an arid climate, or more especially, one where the relative humidity swings seasonally, you may run afoul of the issue of low humidity in the air. When that happens, things go ‘wrong’ and it may be difficult to…
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Not All The Same
I’ve been answering questions for a long time, even when I only knew a ‘little’ bit, and I’ve seen many of the same questions – and assumptions – presented for a very long time. The additions to the weaving community tend to come in ‘waves’, and every few years I find myself addressing the…
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Oops.
Yesterday I cut the first 7 towels off the loom. I gotta tell ya, weaving with this linen from Lithuania has been lovely. When it arrived it was a bit thinner than I had expected (still not great at converting metric to imperial – my bad), but thinner can always – in a pinch…
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Thinking, Thinking
I return to this graphic (our plans vs reality) a lot as a reminder that I need to have the plan but also need to be flexible enough to make my way through whatever obstacles I encounter along the way. So I continue to pick away at what I’m working on while allowing my…
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Unexpected
Cloth beam showing green linen and beige cotton weft Recently someone said that linen did not behave the way they expected. If you have only woven with wool and cotton, weaving with linen will be…different. Linen has essentially zero elasticity. It is denser than cotton and stiffer. As such it does behave differently. The above…
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Final Throes
We called it Puff. It served us well, pressing hundreds of yards of textiles in the time we had it. We are still hoping to find a new home for it, but things have gotten complicated. As in…the weather. Suddenly it’s winter and it’s wintering hard. First we (the entire province almost) got slammed with…
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Moving Right Along
Now that Christmas (and the introductory offer) is over, it is time to gear down for the long haul. My immediate schedule now switches to conference planning. We are very near to announcing the registration opening. If people haven’t yet signed up for conference email notices, I urge you to do so asap as things…
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It’s Own Time
I have visited the province of Dalarna, Sweden several times and as such have also visited a number of glassworks and gotten to know a little bit about glass as a material. One of the phrases heard about glass is that it ‘has it’s own time’. In other words, the glass worker must tease it…