Category: magazines
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Subtle
I see so many suggestions about how to create ‘perfect’ selvedges. Many of them rely on this ‘trick’ or that ‘secret tip’. I’ve been weaving for 50 years, now, and I can assure you I agonized over my selvedges. I, too, looked for the ‘magic’ solution, fussed over creating ‘perfect’ selvedges. But here’s the…
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Picking Away
Am making my way through the current warp. Today I will cut off and re-tie and then it should take about 5 more days to finish the warp off. So, it’s time to start planning the next. I have enough fine linen for about 6 warps and the current warp is #2, so I…
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Picking Away
Am making my way through the current warp. Today I will cut off and re-tie and then it should take about 5 more days to finish the warp off. So, it’s time to start planning the next. I have enough fine linen for about 6 warps and the current warp is #2, so I…
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Picking Away
Am making my way through the current warp. Today I will cut off and re-tie and then it should take about 5 more days to finish the warp off. So, it’s time to start planning the next. I have enough fine linen for about 6 warps and the current warp is #2, so I…
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Clean Up Time
some magazines in which I have articles Writing several articles on various topics over the past 2.5 months means I’ve pulled a lot of resources out and now need to put them away again. As part of my dive into my library, I had a stack of Handwoven Magazines that also needed putting away. …
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Inching Along
Finished off the natural beige linen and started on the white for weft. The colours are subtle – a pale grey and pale green about the same value. It’s an approach to creating textiles I like because it gives the cloth more depth, more ‘interest’, than a same yarn/colour warp. Not that that is…
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Experimenting
When I decided to retire from doing craft fairs in 2019 and then in-person teaching (because of Covid) some of my friends wondered what I would do instead. I had no ready answer for them, other than that I thought I might like to take a deeper look at weaving. Deeper than I had…
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A Little Progress
Having made some progress over the past couple of days, I decided I’d better get the next draft ready. I’m not sure I’ll actually do this one as it is very similar to the other one, so I’ll think on it for a bit. In the meantime, I’ve decided to do one more warp…
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Legacy
In this day of mis- and dis-information, starting up a new magazine is a vote for the future. Humans have been playing with string since the dawn of time. The craft is vast, and broad, and deep. To try to encapsulate the bones of the craft in a periodical is brave and bold, and…
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Carrots (not Sticks)
Yesterday I cut the shawl warp off the loom and started setting up for the next warp, on which I will be weaving samples to illustrate an article I’m writing. Actually, I’m thinking I could weave samples for two different articles, so I’m thinking about how many samples I need and what needs to…