Category: Magic in the Water
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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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Magic in the Water
Digital microscope view of loom state cloth woven in the ‘new to me’ weave structure. Reed marks are clearly visible and the threads are pretty much straight on the ‘grid’. There is little curvature or bending of the threads. The warp and weft threads are clearly distinct. The web looks very ‘thready’. Same weave…
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Zoom Presentation
The EHS guild is hosting a Zoom ‘workshop’ with me on Sunday, 3rd March 2024 and welcomes non-members to join in. I’m looking forward to this because it is 2.5 hours (scheduled) which means I won’t have to ‘rush’. 🙂 Mind you, I can talk about wet finishing for lots more hours! However, this…
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Hunkering Down
This photo is from a few years ago, but shows some of the accumulation that we can expect as ‘normal’. The weather forecast for the next few days is…snow. I’m not particularly bothered by it because I don’t really need to leave the house for the next few days. After a flurry of activity…
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Monday, Monday
We are at the scrag end of autumn and the trees looked like this about a week ago, but are nearly bare now. We are in waiting for winter to arrive, which looks like it should be soon, given we are now having frost overnight and temps below zero C. Yesterday I dug out…
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Closed
are these the same yarns? If you keep a closed mind, you can’t take in new information. There are many aspects of weaving (and no doubt other crafts) where the subtleties of the craft are such that it becomes a lifetime of learning. Because change one thing and everything can change. Let’s say a…
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Inflation…
…is a thing Yup. Inflation is definitely a ‘thing’. Recently I had to increase the price of The Intentional Weaver to $72.00 Canadian. I have left the prices for the pdf the same, and have not increased the prices on Magic, either format. Just as for any other industry, the printing industry is dealing with…
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It Isn’t Finished Until…
..it’s wet finished. Or in reality, for someone who wants to sell their work, until it’s sold. One of the things that I’ve been doing for the past few months is remembering. Remembering how Magic came to be – and how many years it took. Remembering all the different shows I (we) did. How…
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Onwards
The smoke is back. It was worse this morning than it is now but it is coming in from the north and managing to catch us in it’s ‘skirts’. It could be worse further east and definitely worse further north which is where the current smoke plume is coming. So far we’ve been lucky,…
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Ego
12 more towels pressed, ready for hemming This morning I spent about an hour pressing 12 more towels. They came off the loom last Friday, got run through the washing machine on Thursday after burling (inspection) and mending, then finally got pressed today. As I pressed the thought squirrels rampaged through my brain. Not…