Category: special orders
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41″ x 24 epi = 984
Working on the AVL now that the loom parts have been installed. I’d intended to have this warp ready to weave on before the parts arrived but USPS and Canada Post conspired to deliver the box days before I expected it! This warp is the special order and today I made significant progress on threading –…
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When Work = Play
Beaming warp sectionally – green first, then red Completed warp I rarely accept special orders any more – unless it is just doing one of my established designs in a different colourway. But I agreed to tackle this special order for a couple of reasons. One, the customer gave me complete freedom to design something.…
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Crossing Things Off
This is it – the last of the painted warps. It’s been a very long time, much longer than I had hoped, but then when Life Happens, all you can do is weather the storm as best you can and if your plans go awry? Well, that is how Life Happens. Weavers are, by their…
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Something Special
Gallant and Jones Is the name of the shop in Vancouver for whom I wove the special ‘spa’ or beach towels. They are now available in their shop. More progress today – back is feeling yet again a tiny bit better and I finished the tow linen weft beige/orange towels. Now I have just a…
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Tea Towels! Getcher Tea Towels! edited to show sales
cotton and cottolin $32 (2) Sold cotton and linen $36 (4) one on right Sold cotton $28 (2) cotton and linen $36 (1) cotton $28 (3) cotton $28 (blue – 6, beige – 5 – blue were woven as part of the Big Project in May and are the Spring Bouquet towels from Handwoven May…
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Tea Towels! Getcher Tea Towels! edited to show sales
cotton and cottolin $32 (2) Sold cotton and linen $36 (4) one on right Sold cotton $28 (2) cotton and linen $36 (1) cotton $28 (3) cotton $28 (blue – 6, beige – 5 – blue were woven as part of the Big Project in May and are the Spring Bouquet towels from Handwoven May…
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Technical Challenges
One of the reasons I was approached by the designer in Vancouver was because she needed some fabric of very particular specifications that the mill wasn’t able to accommodate. They recommended that she contact me. (I did some ‘sample’ weaving for them a few years ago.) The cloth had to be a particular quality in…
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Prototype
The sampling is done, and we think I’ve managed to get the quality of cloth the designer needs. Now it’s time to work on the prototype of her first design. It’s challenging to work with other creative people, especially when they are in slightly different media. I’ve worked with a number of designers, some of…
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Intimations of Things to Come
Today the first harbinger of my latest yarn order arrived. I got a commission for not one, not two, but three table cloths from a customer in Calgary. He was so sweet – when we were discussing designs he said “Just make what you like…what’s ugly in this booth? I have a sense of your…
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Dreaming Textile Dreams
In addition to the last two shows being successful enough that inventory is getting low in certain items, I also have the sample warp for the designer in Vancouver to weave and a special order for 3 table cloths for a customer in Calgary. One thing about doing shows in person is that you get…