Category: shawls
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Seeing Red
Got the placemat warp woven and wet finished. While the washer was running I decided to beam a painted silk warp. I had a bunch of these silk boucle warps painted, but have never been 100% happy with my results. After mulling it over for a rather long time I decided to change my approach…
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Red Towels, Finished
Not sure why this photo looks so fuzzy on the blog – it looked fine in my Kodak software. Oh well……. These are the 100% cotton towels, woven last – October? My how time flies. Anyway, I got them wet finished and pressed today. They will be used as gifts for anyone buying a copy…
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Red Towels, Finished
Not sure why this photo looks so fuzzy on the blog – it looked fine in my Kodak software. Oh well……. These are the 100% cotton towels, woven last – October? My how time flies. Anyway, I got them wet finished and pressed today. They will be used as gifts for anyone buying a copy…
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Changing Direction….
Generally, by the time I’m sitting at the loom shuttle in hand, I’ve thought through all the possibilities and have made up my mind what I’m going to do. Sometimes minor changes are made, but I’ve spent a lot of time thinking before I start weaving. This warp, however, seems particularly fluid. After thinking about…
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Getting things finished…
Spent much of the morning today getting some things pressed. I have an industrial steam press which makes short work of the pressing, but since I like to make it worthwhile to fire up the boiler I usually do a large batch of pressing all at once. Today I did four of the shawls woven…
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Rough Week
Although I had every intention of cutting this warp off and re-sleying it to weave shawls, this week has not been a great one, and even though I’m not thrilled with the beige linen on the red warp, it’s good enough for therapy weaving so that’s what I’ve been doing. Since my brother died, my…
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Red Warp #1
After musing for several days about what I wanted to do with the red cotton I came up with a plan. A solid red warp didn’t appeal, somehow, and I still had alllll this blue left, so… I wound spools of red cotton, and then set up the bobbin rack with 8 red and 24…