Category: teaching
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Guest Post – Katie
My name is Katie Rivas and I met Laura Fry in January ’09 while taking a class she did for my weaving guild in Southern California. I liked Laura off the bat and even though the class was round-robin, I spent way more time asking Laura about a million questions I had stored up regarding…
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Weaving Coaching
This summer I’ve had the treat of having several students come for weaving coaching. All of them have been interested in improving their physical skills, with the aim of increasing their productivity. Sharon has a busy life and a satisfying but demanding job and therefore her time to weave is limited. She was interested in…
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Missouri Memories
Sorry about the focus on this photo – it was really hard to get a clear picture as the book has a foil wrapper and the camera really didn’t know how to get a clear picture I guess. Either that or it’s because I’ve got a cold and my eyes don’t want to focus, either.…
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The Tally for the Day
Today I: wove a chenille scarf and finished the warp on the loomdressed the loom, wove two more scarvesdressed the loom, wove two more scarvesgot the next warp attached to the apron beam ready to beam tomorrowwound skeins to be dyed next warp – pretty! I also:read my bookhad coffee with the neighbour where we…
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Coaching Weaving
Having Syne come to the studio meant I spent some time analyzing what I do in order to try and come up with the language needed to convey the skills being shown. You can read about Syne’s perspective here: http://3.ly/B3x One of the things that new weavers don’t understand right away is that the relationship…
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Loom Waste?
One of the benefits of a counterbalanced loom is that you can force the shed. Since I was already using a stick shuttle I just kept on weaving, trying to get as much length woven out of the warp as I possibly could. 🙂 The loom waste on this warp was miniscule! If I’d known…
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Simplify?
Got to Puff on Saturday evening and got some pressing done. These towels were woven a while ago but they are now ‘done’ – ready to be tagged and priced and put up for sale. But I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately. For 30 or so years I have woven pretty much every…
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Birmingham, AL
The weavers of Birmingham are a great group. Â Wednesday we did a 2 hour seminar on dressing the loom, which turned into a day of dressing looms for the workshop. Â 🙂 Â Thursday we finished getting the looms ready in the afternoon, then had a small reception at one members’ house. Today was the first of…
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Birmingham, AL
The weavers of Birmingham are a great group. Â Wednesday we did a 2 hour seminar on dressing the loom, which turned into a day of dressing looms for the workshop. Â 🙂 Â Thursday we finished getting the looms ready in the afternoon, then had a small reception at one members’ house. Today was the first of…
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Birmingham, AL
The weavers of Birmingham are a great group. Â Wednesday we did a 2 hour seminar on dressing the loom, which turned into a day of dressing looms for the workshop. Â 🙂 Â Thursday we finished getting the looms ready in the afternoon, then had a small reception at one members’ house. Today was the first of…