Category: teaching
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Driver’s Manual
I get it. People are interested in weaving. So they buy a loom and then…ask for a ‘manual’ for the type of loom they bought – usually second (or more) hand loom. Sometimes they know so little they don’t even know if the loom is complete. Or they wonder which brand it is –…
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Carrots. Sticks.
if life were easy… Anyone following this blog for any time will be aware that I’ve managed to stumble through a bunch of health issues. If it was ‘easy’, everyone would be doing it? Anyway, it has NOT been ‘easy’, and I’m a long way away from being fully functional. However, as the neurosurgeon…
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Better Questions
pretty painted warps for eye candy I have been thinking about how learning works. I mean what does a person need to do when confronted with a very large pool of knowledge – more an ocean than a pool. Where do they start? How do they manage the info dump that can be presented? …
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Reply Guys
I’m no stranger to ‘reply guys’ trying to ‘teach’ me things. Mostly I ignore them. Mostly. Recently one replied to a short answer I wrote in an online group to ‘teach’ me because my answer ‘wasn’t entirely correct’. Of course it wasn’t. It was a very brief response to a specific question – a…
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Complexity. Subtlety.
As a new weaver, it gets confusing to try and figure out things like weaving drafts. What do those little black boxes mean? How do you get plain weave on this weave structure? Where are the odds vs even treadles that weave ‘tabby’? It can be frustrating to make sense out of what you…
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Puzzling
Many of my childhood memories revolve around working on jigsaw puzzles. In our home, there wasn’t a lot of room to devote to the building of a puzzle, so we were pretty much confined to 500 or 1000 piece puzzles, which we built on the coffee table in the living room. These days, I’m…
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New Year, New Opportunities
It is really heartening to see the interest in weaving beginning to build – again. Unfortunately new weavers have an obstacle I never had – LLM, AI, whatever it is called – in addition to the ‘usual’ myths out there about weaving, we now have the ‘lying’ machines feeding a massive amount of misinformation…
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Stocking Stuffers
The solstice cometh, and the turning of the sun from travelling south, to returning north. A time of change, of returning of the light. This month has pivoted to a renewed effort on my part to try and deal with the copious amounts of clutter in my life. I was also reminded again that…
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Soap Box Time
upright posture (recommended) not upright (not recommended) Once again I see someone pictured online sitting in a way that isn’t ‘healthy’ or kind to their body. Generally they are sitting in an ordinary kitchen chair, too low, having to lift their shoulders in order to weave. Oftentimes they are weaving on a table top…
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Generosity
This is a scarf woven by a friend and gifted to me. There is no one who appreciates a hand woven gift as much as another weaver, especially if it is something different than they might usually weave. As usual with such gifts, it went into my teaching box as an example I wanted…