Category: The Intentional Weaver. Teaching
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Unpopular Opinions
The Prime Minister announced that one of the new budget initiatives would be ‘investment in AI training’. Well, the country will not need to spend any money on me because I won’t use it. Period. The books pictured above were all written by me, long before AI or LLM were sparkles in anyone’s eye. …
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Working Out The Code
This is a weaving draft for a four shaft loom with six treadles. This is the way that I prefer to set up a simple twill progression, and my preferred tie up to weave plain weave and/or a typical 2:2 twill. New weavers can get confused about what they are looking at. Some discover…
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Tugging At Threads
The Intentional Weaver Talking to someone the other day who was feeling overwhelmed about how much there is to learn. I suggested that they try to find the end of the thread and then follow it, wherever it led. We all learn in our own ways, following our interests. With a craft such as weaving,…
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Ancient Does Not Equal ‘Primitive’
one of my books (available here) It’s really nice to see the influx of ‘new’ weavers into the online groups. It’s just really difficult to give meaningful answers to questions when they have little knowledge of the craft or its language. It is equally difficult to give answers that won’t offend the new weaver –…
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Little Pieces of Done, part II
how it started how it’s going The ‘how it started’ photo isn’t really accurate because it ‘started’ long before I got to that stage of creating a bibliography. This book was the one I didn’t want to write. Actually I swore I would never write another book after I finished producing Magic in the…
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Saying Yes
When I became a weaver, it was because I said ‘yes’ to something that was so far fetched, so anachronistic, that any other person would have automatically said ‘no’. A handweaver? In the 20th century? Come on! Seriously? But I said ‘yes’. When I changed my life so dramatically, I had little inkling of…
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Brain Dump
diagram from The Intentional Weaver When I launched The Intentional Weaver, a few people said they would like a ‘brain dump’ of my thoughts and processes. Um, no, no one wants *that*! I came up with the above diagram to try and explain how my thoughts constantly zip from one bubble to the next,…
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I Had A Plan
As I get deeper into teaching on line I am reminded of the above diagram – what I *think* my plan will be and how it *actually* is. There is a theme meme going around the internet that shows two images – one with ‘how it started’, the other with ‘how it’s going’. I…
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Details, Details
various aspects of cloth construction – diagram from The Intentional Weaver As I go through my resources, scrape together my thoughts, generate the slides for the Power Point (PP in future) presentations for the study groups, I am reminded over and over how much fine detail there is in weaving. Or any hand craft/technology,…
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Stress Fatigue
Stress wears on a body. We have had a year of pandemic stress on top of whatever else we are dealing with and the stress hormones flood our systems. We are in a constant state of alertness and alarm. And we get tired. Fatigued. I went through a trough of energy in August and…