Category: studio reorganization
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Change One Thing
beaming the warp for the next project still some ‘goat’ trails With my retirement from production weaving and selling my work, the move out of the annex, the disbursement of production equipment, there have been many, many changes in my life and my work space. With the acquisition of someone’s silk yarn ‘estate’, space had…
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Winding Down
More steps towards closing down my business. Yesterday Doug went pressing one last time, then started taking the heavy duty wiring apart in preparation for disassembling Puff. I will really miss the ease of hard pressing my textiles, but on the other hand, I used a small flat bed press for about 20 years before…
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State of the Studio
from doorway – Leclerc Fanny, library, cone winder, wall of shelves to the right and to the left from other end of the room – Leclerc Fanny, shelves at the end of the room and at the side middle of the space – warping board, storage cubby, shelves to the right with things that have…
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Progress, One Bin at a Time
Today Doug and his helper carried 14 bins and a box down to the studio and set them up on a saw horse table so that I could work on sorting and condensing them. The bins and box are filled with miscellaneous stuff I’ve been ignoring – sometimes for decades. Several bins of bobbin lace…
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Ch-ch-ch-changes (studio update)
Change one thing and everything can change. Earlier this year I decommissioned the AVL Production Dobby Loom I had woven on since 1982. For nearly 40 years it was my tool of choice for most things. I was trying to earn an income from selling my woven goods and it was a production loom that…
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Ch-ch-ch-changes (studio update)
Change one thing and everything can change. Earlier this year I decommissioned the AVL Production Dobby Loom I had woven on since 1982. For nearly 40 years it was my tool of choice for most things. I was trying to earn an income from selling my woven goods and it was a production loom that…
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Tweaking the Set Up
Little by little, the studio is taking shape. With the replacement of the AVL with the Megado, changing the old computer cabinet into a music storage cabinet, I needed something for the laptop to sit on. We jury-rigged something until Doug had time to fetch the table from the annex, but I asked if he…