Category: teaching
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Picking Away
Am making my way through the current warp. Today I will cut off and re-tie and then it should take about 5 more days to finish the warp off. So, it’s time to start planning the next. I have enough fine linen for about 6 warps and the current warp is #2, so I…
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Picking Away
Am making my way through the current warp. Today I will cut off and re-tie and then it should take about 5 more days to finish the warp off. So, it’s time to start planning the next. I have enough fine linen for about 6 warps and the current warp is #2, so I…
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Picking Away
Am making my way through the current warp. Today I will cut off and re-tie and then it should take about 5 more days to finish the warp off. So, it’s time to start planning the next. I have enough fine linen for about 6 warps and the current warp is #2, so I…
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Like an Onion
view of two towels from the ‘side’ – upper is loom state, lower is wet finished We ‘know’ things in different ways. There are things we know consciously; there are things we know subconsciously; there are things we know intuitively. Consciously, I know that wet finishing a web will change it, sometimes radically, sometimes…
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Passing the Torch
One of the things I think about is how knowledge is kept, and how it can be grown. Reading The House of Wisdom by Jim Al-Khalili sent me down all sorts of rabbit warrens as I thought about the body of knowledge contained in the crafts, particularly spinning and weaving (and other related textile…
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Turn, Turn, Turn
I made the decision to retire at the end of 2019 in around February of that year. Why the delay? Well, it takes time to close a business, complete contracts, wrap up projects. When I went public with the news, some friends asked what I would do? Well, weave, of course! I had to. …
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Experimenting
When I decided to retire from doing craft fairs in 2019 and then in-person teaching (because of Covid) some of my friends wondered what I would do instead. I had no ready answer for them, other than that I thought I might like to take a deeper look at weaving. Deeper than I had…
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A Close Look
This is a ‘linen tester’. Why is it called that? No idea. But it’s a really useful tool if you want to take a closer look at your textiles. I have one that is a little bit different. It has the inch scale, but it also has a 1/4″ and 1/2″ scale. The viewing…
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Legacy
In this day of mis- and dis-information, starting up a new magazine is a vote for the future. Humans have been playing with string since the dawn of time. The craft is vast, and broad, and deep. To try to encapsulate the bones of the craft in a periodical is brave and bold, and…
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Unusual View
As a weaver, my usual point of view is from the front of the loom. OTOH, the back view is pretty impressive, too. Or, at least, *I* think so! All those filled heddles marching across the width of the warp. I enjoying seeing them dance up and down as I weave – something I…