Category: samples

  After I published Magic in the Water I added a few more publications to my repertoire, also with actual handwoven samples.  The above example was from A Vadmal Adventure, where my aim was mostly to experience a hammer mill and fulling wool using that tool. Someone asked on a group today if people weave…

  One of the things that fascinates me is the materials that are available to weave with.  I fell into a little ‘extra’ money and had a gift card to Amazon, and found their listings for electronic microscopes.  Then I had some fun burrowing down the rabbit hole, looking at threads up close and personal.…

  One of the things that fascinates me is the materials that are available to weave with.  I fell into a little ‘extra’ money and had a gift card to Amazon, and found their listings for electronic microscopes.  Then I had some fun burrowing down the rabbit hole, looking at threads up close and personal.…

  One of the things that fascinates me is the materials that are available to weave with.  I fell into a little ‘extra’ money and had a gift card to Amazon, and found their listings for electronic microscopes.  Then I had some fun burrowing down the rabbit hole, looking at threads up close and personal.…

  tea towel with cut line woven in for easy cutting/serging What goes into the creative act? Things.  Lots and lots of…things.  Lots and lots of thinking.   Many times the thoughts are barely conscious, hardly noticeable.  Many times I come away from the loom realizing that I’d been thinking about the ‘next’ warp the whole…

  stacks of samples to be documented and analyzed In high school, I had a love/hate relationship with Chemistry.  I enjoyed *doing* the experiments, hated writing them up. And now, here I am – a lifetime (pretty much) of doing the experiments, and in some cases, writing them up. Turns out it was just a…

  The current warp was designed to do the samples I needed for the current article, but I never do just short warps if I can make longer ones and have them do double duty.  So it was with this one. The ‘easiest’ way to do the samples I was designing was to do a…

  The current warp was designed to do the samples I needed for the current article, but I never do just short warps if I can make longer ones and have them do double duty.  So it was with this one. The ‘easiest’ way to do the samples I was designing was to do a…

  Given it looks like one more day (two at the most) will finish the current warp, it is time to get serious about the next warp. As usual, I’m making this sample warp do double duty so I want to utilize the threading in the way I need it to weave the samples for…