Category: Magic in the Water
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Challenges
I have never been one to shrink from a challenge. I like puzzles. I enjoy learning things. I like sharing my passion with other like minded folk. I’ve been called a story teller and I’m happy with that label. But I have had a lifetime of it. One of the questions I ask myself…
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Lovely Linen
Linen is a wonderful fabric in so many ways, although it does have its quirks. Linen comes from flax plants. The fibre is from the stem of the plant – called ‘bast’. Other plants also have bast fibre and some of them provide fibre that can be harvested and spun to make yarn. For…
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Of Legacies
One of the things we – or at least I – tend to think about at some point is…what are we leaving behind? For some people this legacy leaving centres around material goods. How much money (stocks/bonds/whatever) will be passed on to the family. For me the question is not so much about money,…
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Of Legacies
One of the things we – or at least I – tend to think about at some point is…what are we leaving behind? For some people this legacy leaving centres around material goods. How much money (stocks/bonds/whatever) will be passed on to the family. For me the question is not so much about money,…
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Of Legacies
One of the things we – or at least I – tend to think about at some point is…what are we leaving behind? For some people this legacy leaving centres around material goods. How much money (stocks/bonds/whatever) will be passed on to the family. For me the question is not so much about money,…
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Copyright
There has been an on-going thread on Twitter about book copyright, how long it should last, why authors should get copyright protection in the first place. Some pundits say that copyright protection should last 5 years or 30 years, but no longer! It has taken me a while to consider this argument. I have…
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Perspective
The photo is of some yarn that I spun a few years ago and knitted up into shawls or something. While I have been knitting since the age of 6 or so, I’m not a skilled knitter, just a reasonably competent one. I don’t do anything very fancy or complicated anymore, although I have…
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Books and Information
From time to time I get to talk to other weaver-authors about books. A recurring theme is what happens when a book goes out of print? We talk about ‘traditional’ publishing and the advantages/disadvantages in going that route. We talk about self-publishing and the advantages/disadvantages of choosing that route. But when the hard copies…
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To Full or Not to Full
wool after wet finishing and fairly significant fulling linen after wet finishing Just a friendly reminder that plant fibres do not full. Fulling is something that *some* protein fibres do. Not all wool will full, but ALL fibres need to be wet finished IMHO. Plant fibres will bloom as they absorb water. The threads…
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The Power of Intention
The Intentional Weaver In 2004, Wayne Dyer published a book called The Power of Intention. At the time I was going through some tough times – I’d just spent years working towards the master certificate granted by the Guild of Canadian Weavers, then turning my final level monograph (as it was called then) into…