Category: linen
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Struggle
It feels like my life has been a constant struggle since…I can’t even remember when. My entire life? So I’m used to things not being comfortable. Or going smoothly. Or having to stop and re-jig what I want to do because it just isn’t working out the way I wanted it to. To be…
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Enablers
Happy Tuesday to me. 🙂 I am blessed with enablers who send me yarn (and books). On this snowy Tuesday morning, a kilo of fine singles linen arrived from Lithuania. It’s a bit finer than I had envisioned, which means I will have to re-tool my plans for it, but never mind, anticipation is…
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Yarn Choices
attempting to tame the dry linen by making a ‘humidor’ and letting the bobbins ‘steep’ in a humid environment for several days before attempting to weave with it. See link to previous post given below. Had a question this morning about yarns listed in a very old booklet with projects for weavers. The yarns…
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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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Interlacements/Angle
Someone asked about interlacements and how one would go about changing that ratio. I managed to get one towel woven yesterday with the finer green linen. The camera has washed out the colours a bit, it actually looks more interesting than this, but the point of the photo is the twill angle. If the linen…
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Green
While I have been on a stash reduction target for far too long (people keep dying and I keep getting their yarn to add to mine) there are always interesting lessons to be learned from digging deep into the stash. Now the two yarns in the photo were acquisitions by moi, but one (the darker)…
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Green
While I have been on a stash reduction target for far too long (people keep dying and I keep getting their yarn to add to mine) there are always interesting lessons to be learned from digging deep into the stash. Now the two yarns in the photo were acquisitions by moi, but one (the darker)…
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Green
While I have been on a stash reduction target for far too long (people keep dying and I keep getting their yarn to add to mine) there are always interesting lessons to be learned from digging deep into the stash. Now the two yarns in the photo were acquisitions by moi, but one (the darker)…
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New Draft
One of the advantages of having a computer assisted dobby loom is that you can design and file away complete treadling drafts for a project. This is my latest warp. I call it ‘lily pads’ for reasons which will become apparent once I get started weaving. I hope! But I thought it might be interesting…