Category: Olds College
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Olds Textile Program – Toby Smith
Thinking about doing the Olds Master Weaver Program? As I am a student in the Olds College Master Weaver Program, others who are thinking of doing it ask me what it is like. I can only speak for myself. I have been a life-long learner, by nature and by profession. If you are thinking of…
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Olds Fibre Week
Here we all are at the end of the week. Tired, yes. Happy? Hope so. I know I am. We covered three main weave structures in Level 2 – Twills, Overshot and Double Weave/Wide. In addition to this we looked at cotton fibre characteristics, touched on Profile Drafting (as one way to explain the similarity…
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Queueing Up
So here is the queue of yarn to be used as weft for place mats. That big cone of blue/green? It’s nearly 5 pounds. The rose cone at the back? I used up 1 pound 4 ounces as weft on an 11 meter long warp. In other words, there is some serious weaving required to…
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Queueing Up
So here is the queue of yarn to be used as weft for place mats. That big cone of blue/green? It’s nearly 5 pounds. The rose cone at the back? I used up 1 pound 4 ounces as weft on an 11 meter long warp. In other words, there is some serious weaving required to…
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An Embarrassment of Riches
Some of the boxes of Lynn’s yarn – 29 in total This afternoon Doug and I went through all of the boxes of Lynn’s yarn. The second photo was taken after we were nearly finished. Thank goodness the annex has a fairly large loading dock as we were able to open all of the boxes,…
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Fibre Week at Olds College (Alberta)
Still trying to get everything done that needs to be done before I leave on Thursday. One of the things I finally got round to was bringing the Schedule page on my website up to date. While doing this I checked the Olds College Website and discovered that it’s really truly official. I’m slated to…
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Diving In
Out of focus shot of the box of warps! First painted warp rough sleyed with potential wefts… Home again, home again, jiggity jig! I collapsed into bed almost as soon as I came in the door so exhausted was I from the long flight and lack of food. With my food allergies, I decided not…
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Affirmation
Just got word a few minutes ago that the towels I submitted to Handwoven have been accepted for the May/June issue. It’s always nice when that happens – a lovely affirmation that I am doing work that other people like and enjoy. 🙂 The above photo isn’t exactly what they look like, but is a…