Category: linen
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Regular programming
Finished the copper-y brown weft and started on the green cotton. The cottolin I’d intended to use turned out to be 2/8, not 2/16, and therefore too thick. However I have a fairly deep and broad stash of 2/16 cotton, and so the rest of this warp will be woven off in cotton. Based on…
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One More Day
There was a pretty good turn out this morning for the sale. All the tea towels I had on half-price sold. I have three more I will bring in the morning. There are two painted warp scarves left on half price, and one last shawl. There is, however, a goodly selection of scarves, both smooth…
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Planning
Now that I’m well over the half way mark on test warp #3(?), my thoughts are turning to the next warp. In the stash reducing effort, I had planned some more tea towel warps in order to use up the fine single linen yarns that I accidentally (ahem) acquired. I used a little of this…
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Unsupported
One of the reasons I like the AVL is that I can do things like this and not have to do anything remedial because the tension on the warp is not held at the cloth beam but up at the front on the ‘breast’ beam (aka the sandpaper beam). On an ordinary loom, this overhang…
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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…
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Bumps
Life is full of bumps, lumps, twists and turns. The last couple of warps that I put onto the AVL I had some errors that required fixing and this time I decided I needed something that would be simpler to set up. It’s also something that many people find attractive – a twill block version…
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Tricks We Play on Ourselves
These three cones are part of the inheritance I received a few years ago. Lynn had an eye for a bargain and would routinely buy yarns on deep discount, not necessarily with any project in mind, just because it was ‘cheap’ and too good a deal to pass on. When I sorted through her literally…
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Up Close and Personal
This rather messy looking pile of…straw?…is actually a really close up view of cottolin (purple) and cotton (pale blue) woven together. It is hard to make out but the purple yarn is a two ply – if you look really closely, you might be able to see the one ply of purple on the surface…
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What’s Necessary
So, here is what I’m aiming for – a rendition of snails trails and cats paws, but done in twill blocks rather than the more usually seen overshot. I keep returning to this design for several reasons – I like the undulation of the ‘trails’, I like the quality of cloth and I like the…