Category: road trip
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Trip Recap
large cauldron – not sure what they used it for – scouring? dyeing? at Masson Mill Jacquard loom at Masson Mill Paradise Mill – had lots of spare loom parts stored – here are a stack of beaters with fly shuttle boxes attached Docent at Quarry Mill explaining how a hand loom works One of…
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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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Something Simple
After cutting the cottolin warp off the AVL I really felt like I needed something that I didn’t have to fight with and, since I am woefully short of inventory of place mats, decided to toss a quick and easy place mat warp onto the Leclerc Fanny. Got the loom dressed last night and jumped…
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The End (of sorts)
The warp is now cut off the loom so the weaving is done. With weaving however there are so many ‘ends’ (pun intended) that the actual shuttle throwing is just the beginning. As weavers we cannot forget that it still needs to be wet finished. Or that many times what we are making is the raw material…
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Under Pressure
With the pressure of getting the warps to be painted completed, the work table is now available to do other things – like continue the samples for AGY: L&H. There is added pressure to get cracking on the publication for several reasons. Doug got up on the roof yesterday because the ice dam over our…
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Snow Day
This is the view out my kitchen window (Feb. 25/13) We had a snow alert yesterday, and it’s still coming down this morning – although the alert has been downgraded. The roads are filled in with thick wet snow which makes driving miserable. And it’s dark and gloomy with it, too. The plum trees do…
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Longer Days
The days aren’t actually any longer – they still come with 24 hours in them – but the day light is coming earlier and leaving later. I’m still fighting through a lack of energy and not accomplishing nearly enough during the day, but at least I feel like I’ve made some progress this week. I…
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Khaki Towel
Using a lighter value beige brightens this warp considerably. I’m really happy with it now that it is wet finished. (See Change of Pace post a few days ago.) The last two days I’ve been making final arrangements for the trip – loading my suitcases, getting my vitamins and meds ready, ticking a few more…
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Change of Pace
With dwindling inventory of the colours that most appeal to me it was time for a change of pace. Decided to do a more ‘neutral’ warp instead of the pastels or mid-range values I’d been playing with for the past couple of weeks. So here is the warp (or half of it). Kahki, a dusky…