Category: special orders
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Ukrainian Skirts and Seconds
Ta-Daa! Here is the fabric for the skirts beamed. I’ve just started transferring the bouts to the long stick that I use to carry all the bouts together to just behind the heddles for threading. This warp is relatively narrow at 32″ in the reed, so it has been off set to the right by…
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Another Special Commission
Today I met with the rep from the local Ukranian dance troupe. I’ve done fabric for them in the past, and they needed new fabric for skirts. They also needed sashes and headbands. I wove the skirt fabric above several years ago. It’s actually a lot more orange than the photo shows. They need 5…
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All Squared Away
Here are the square cloths draped over the back of my sofa. The two on the outsides have the linen/rayon boucle for weft, the next two inside those on each side use the same ivory for weft as the majority of the warp, and the one in the middle is the cotton slub for weft.…
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Changing My Mind
Well, after doing one square with the 2/8 cotton, I remembered the linen/rayon boucle and decided to do one with that. The pattern is twill blocks in a point treadling progression, and I decided I liked it enough that I did both the ivory cotton and the boucle in the same treadling. In the photo,…
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Special Order
From time to time I take special orders. This is one. The view is from the back so you can’t see the colours very clearly, but the cloth hasn’t come round far enough for me to get a good view of the front, yet. This is a very special order because it is long distance.…