Category: special orders
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Going Slow to go…..Fast?
I am not a particularly happy camper. I’m not happy with the results I’m getting, and I’m not happy about how I’m having to go about getting even those results. 🙁 Notice anything odd in the photo above? Like, where’s the reed? Well, I was even less happy with the results while using a 6…
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Four Boxes
Someone emailed me today asking if the four box fly shuttle was really useful or if it was ‘overkill’ as her friends were advising her. 🙂 When I ordered the loom originally (1983) I ordered it with the double box fly shuttle. Over the years, I found the double box useful even though I didn’t…
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Headdress
Here is the headdress fabric. Amazingly enough, I was quite happy with the very first one and didn’t make any changes from the proto-type. How rare is that? 😀 What I am weaving is no where near as fancy as the example given me, but I’m working under a very tight deadline here and keeping…
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Headdresses
The warp for the headdresses is beamed. Generally I wouldn’t set up the AVL for such a short warp (5 yards including an ‘extra’ yard for sampling) but the warp is 32″ wide so I can use the fly shuttle on it. Notice I’ve offset the warp 4″ to the right to compensate for the…
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Headdresses
The warp for the headdresses is beamed. Generally I wouldn’t set up the AVL for such a short warp (5 yards including an ‘extra’ yard for sampling) but the warp is 32″ wide so I can use the fly shuttle on it. Notice I’ve offset the warp 4″ to the right to compensate for the…
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Headdresses
The warp for the headdresses is beamed. Generally I wouldn’t set up the AVL for such a short warp (5 yards including an ‘extra’ yard for sampling) but the warp is 32″ wide so I can use the fly shuttle on it. Notice I’ve offset the warp 4″ to the right to compensate for the…
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‘New’ Loom
So above is the new loom. It looks a bit weird because the Leclerc Meko is folded up and shoved in front of it. I am seriously running out of room…….. The new loom is a J-Made and needs a few minor repairs, but nothing that Doug can’t handle. Once he’s finished installing the insulation…
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Ukrainian Skirts
This photo shows a greenish cast – the fabric is really much more orange than this. But here it is – about 8.5 yards of cotton cloth, ready to go into the washing machine and dryer tomorrow. 🙂 I’m still scrambling trying to get myself organized after the trip home from Kelowna yesterday. Much of…
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Busy Day
It’s been a rather busy day and a productive one, I think. 🙂 Here is the skirt fabric – all done! With barely two yards woven by 9:15 pm last night, that means I wove about 7 yards today. In between getting orders from Art Fire packed up and to the mail, coning off more…
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Ukrainian Skirts
The skirts are more orange in real life, but this gives an impression of what the cloth looks like. The skirts are ‘railroaded’ – in other words the warp will be horizontal and the selvedges can be used for waist and hem. The fabric is a 3:1 twill – i.e. the face of the fabric…