Category: tea towels
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Selling my Work part II
Snails trails and cats paws 2/16 cotton warp, cottolin weft. 20% linen, 80% cotton mint-y green 3; gold (more yellow than brown as in the photo) 1 2/16 cotton warp, single linen weft; 50/50 star design, 1; wave design 10 Roses based on draft from A Joy Forever by Jane Evans 2/16 cotton warp, cottonlin…
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Selling My Work part I
Tea Towels A heap o’ towels. Over the next few days I will be posting photos of some of them with prices and numbers available The ever popular design Snails Trails and Cats Paws. These are 20% linen, 80% cotton. Woven from 2/16 cotton for warp and 2/16 cottolin for weft, there are 4 of…
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One More Day
There was a pretty good turn out this morning for the sale. All the tea towels I had on half-price sold. I have three more I will bring in the morning. There are two painted warp scarves left on half price, and one last shawl. There is, however, a goodly selection of scarves, both smooth…
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Planning
Now that I’m well over the half way mark on test warp #3(?), my thoughts are turning to the next warp. In the stash reducing effort, I had planned some more tea towel warps in order to use up the fine single linen yarns that I accidentally (ahem) acquired. I used a little of this…
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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…
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Next Step
One of the reasons for doing the craft fairs to finish out this year was to say goodbye, not just to fellow artisans, but my customers. To that end I posted the following message in my booth: FAREWELL! This is my last time participating in this show. I would like to say thank you for…
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Stars and Roses
It is a source of continual amazement to me how things interconnect in weaving. One of the things that students study in level two of the Olds program is overshot and one aspect of that weave structure is how the central motif of so many overshot designs are called ‘stars’. More fascinatingly, how ‘stars’ can…
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To Everything There is a Season
We tend to forget that for every beginning there is an ending. When we are reminded, it can be difficult to cope with the feelings that the reminder brings with it. In weaving there are lots of beginnings and endings. Warps end. Thread ends. Shuttles empty and need to be filled. Projects come to completion…
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Unsupported
One of the reasons I like the AVL is that I can do things like this and not have to do anything remedial because the tension on the warp is not held at the cloth beam but up at the front on the ‘breast’ beam (aka the sandpaper beam). On an ordinary loom, this overhang…
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Moving Right Along
Now that Christmas (and the introductory offer) is over, it is time to gear down for the long haul. My immediate schedule now switches to conference planning. We are very near to announcing the registration opening. If people haven’t yet signed up for conference email notices, I urge you to do so asap as things…