Category: teaching
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AI – and Learning
One of the challenges in 2025 is the fact that we are besieged on every side by AI. Word has it. Google has it. My email program has it. Everywhere are ‘bots’ (I won’t even call them ‘robots’) trying to interfere in what I want to do. I get that some people are not…
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Subtle
I see so many suggestions about how to create ‘perfect’ selvedges. Many of them rely on this ‘trick’ or that ‘secret tip’. I’ve been weaving for 50 years, now, and I can assure you I agonized over my selvedges. I, too, looked for the ‘magic’ solution, fussed over creating ‘perfect’ selvedges. But here’s the…
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Say Their Name
two different colour ways of kitchen towels, 2/8 cotton warp, cotton flake weft In the past two weeks (give or take a day or two), 3 of my weaving ‘friends’ have died. The latest was someone I knew, not well, but respected. I took a class from her, and took a class along with…
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Following the Threads
This is one repeat of the design we call Swedish Snowflake. It is usually threaded over 8 shafts although it *can* be done on 4 – but with less definition. Since I’ve had 16 shafts since, I dunno, sometime in the 1980s, I tend to thread warps over all 16. It allows me to…
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Following the Threads
This is one repeat of the design we call Swedish Snowflake. It is usually threaded over 8 shafts although it *can* be done on 4 – but with less definition. Since I’ve had 16 shafts since, I dunno, sometime in the 1980s, I tend to thread warps over all 16. It allows me to…
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Following the Threads
This is one repeat of the design we call Swedish Snowflake. It is usually threaded over 8 shafts although it *can* be done on 4 – but with less definition. Since I’ve had 16 shafts since, I dunno, sometime in the 1980s, I tend to thread warps over all 16. It allows me to…
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New Weavers
after wet finishing loom state One of the nice things I see is the appearance of new weavers in groups online. It makes me feel good to think that interest in the craft of weaving is continuing to attract new ‘younger’ weavers. I’m also very happy to see some of these new weavers asking…
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Brain Cramp
This is what I spent several hours the past couple of days doing – mucking about with twill ‘lines’. Then this morning I woke up (I use the term loosely because I hardly slept all night) I panicked and thought I had designed it for 36 epi and I wanted to only use 32. …
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Faux Spring?
This photo is from a few years ago and shows rather more ground than it does currently – but much later in the season. Is what we have ‘faux’ spring? Dunno. The forecaster is saying much higher temps are coming, so this could be it – the last ‘gasp’ of winter? And how the…
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Steeping
Yesterday I wrote another chunk of text for the current article I’m working on. I was already beyond the word limit, but I had some other niggling thoughts I felt I should include. And that’s what editors are for – weeding out the ‘extra’ words. 🙂 So, I thought about those ‘extra’ words while…