Category: Scarves
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Pushing Limits
One of the things I like about working in series is that as I work through colour options, I find myself becoming more bold in the colours I put together. While this warp was wound a long time ago, it is an example of what happens when I start to run out of colours in…
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The Drape!
One of the things that people find appealing is a textile that feels good ‘in the hand’. A textile that bends and flows. That drapes lovingly around the body. I have been working with various forms of rayon for quite a few years, now. Rayon was developed to mimic silk, without the price of…
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Pushing Boundaries
The workshop with Bonnie Inouye finished yesterday and in order to cement some of the techniques we learned I have been working on a series of drafts that may very well find its way into my production schedule for next year. There are many things about weaving that make my little heart go pit…
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Done!
For certain values of done-ness… Three buckets of scarves woven, and a fourth with the fringe twisting elf. Several deadlines are going critical, so I may go ‘dark’ for a while. After years of juggling more stuff than I can keep track of effectively, I have come to the realization that if I…
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Not Feeling the Love
Warp number four in the final count down of this series. And today I’m not feeling the love. I do love weaving. I love being a full time creative person, setting my own goals. Deciding if today is a good day in the studio. I love the Idea of being independent, setting my…
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Producing a 'Line'
There are a number of reasons for producing a ‘line’ when you are selling your products. I do several craft fairs that appeal to the higher end of the market. As such, I need to have a cohesive display, one that is enough eye appealing to entice people out of the aisle and into my…
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Sisyphus
Next warp, ready to go into the loom. I thought I was doing really well, weaving two scarves almost every day. I even had to get out a third bucket to put the woven, ready to be fringe twisted, scarves in. The box under the work table was getting emptier. And then I found a…
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That Tired Inaccurate Formula
When I started weaving as my job, my career, lo, these 40+ years ago, the prevailing wisdom for pricing was that you trebled your material costs. At that formula, this scarf ought to sell for $15. While I may have paid about $10/lb for the yarn in this scarf, that price is not…
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Making Choices
Now that I have decided on a quality of cloth, it is time to start building a ‘line’ of scarves. There are three other variegated colour ways of the Skinny Majesty so my line will be built around those colours. To that end, each two scarf warp will have the variegated yarn along with a…
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Making Choices
Now that I have decided on a quality of cloth, it is time to start building a ‘line’ of scarves. There are three other variegated colour ways of the Skinny Majesty so my line will be built around those colours. To that end, each two scarf warp will have the variegated yarn along with a…