Category: Magic in the Water
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Onwards
Two yarns. Both cotton. Both weighing in at 3360 yards per pound. Are they the same? Are they? This is the sort of thing I am hoping to spotlight in The Intentional Weaver, for those people who want to really understand what they are doing, perhaps design their own textiles, and are looking for answers…
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Not Just Washing
Climbing onto my soap box… These are Color Catchers. Today I’ve been wet finishing a load of red scarves and shawls. I knew beforehand that the weft on these items bled copious amounts of fugitive colour and it needed to be dealt with in the wet finishing. If all I had done was wash this…
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Wheat from Chaff
I read a blog by Jim Wright for a number of reasons. He’s a writer and a political commentator, beholden to neither end of the political spectrum. This morning his blog talked about information overload and how difficult it is to separate the wheat from the chaff. In context of my adding to the overburden of…
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Hurdles
One of the biggest hurdles I’ve ever faced was producing this massive missive. It went on for literally years. First I worked on obtaining the master weaver certificate from the Guild of Canadian Weavers. I thought that goal was the biggest hurdle I’d ever attempt. It was just the prelude to first writing, then illustrating…
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YMMV
2/8 above and 8/2 cotton below – two completely different quality of yarns – because all the numbers mean is how many yards per pound (approximately) each has, and say nothing about how they were prepared for and spun. They will produce completely different qualities of fabric because they are completely different qualities of yarn.…
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Guest Post – Rachel Dalton
Conservation VS Wet Finishing in Textile production by Rachel Dalton, July 2nd 2018. I have always been interested in historic textile production and the connection it had to the lives of the weavers, spinners and dyers that produced stunning cloth and clothing. As a weaver I strive to reproduce these items and admire their stamina…
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Wet Finishing
On page 1, paragraph one, in J. T. Marsh’s book An Introduction to Textile Finishing, Marsh states “The term ‘finishing’ in its widest sense has been held to cover all the processes which fabrics undergo after leaving the loom or knitting machine; from this standpoint, finishing would include bleaching and dyeing, which, indeed, are sometimes…
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Story Tellers
As a child I wanted to write. I dabbled in fiction, poetry, but nothing really gelled. Not until I started weaving. And realized that my ‘story’ was the story of textiles. One of the advantages of the Olds program is that we get to tell each other our stories. We get to share our experiences. …
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Story Tellers
As a child I wanted to write. I dabbled in fiction, poetry, but nothing really gelled. Not until I started weaving. And realized that my ‘story’ was the story of textiles. One of the advantages of the Olds program is that we get to tell each other our stories. We get to share our experiences. …
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Story Tellers
As a child I wanted to write. I dabbled in fiction, poetry, but nothing really gelled. Not until I started weaving. And realized that my ‘story’ was the story of textiles. One of the advantages of the Olds program is that we get to tell each other our stories. We get to share our experiences. …