Category: The Intentional Weaver
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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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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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Exploring
The above is the draft for the towels I just finished weaving. I cut them off the loom yesterday, along with a different tie up/treadling to ‘sample’ the singles 6. Just before I cut that section off the loom, I generated a different tie up and treadling, just to see what that would look…
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Writing A Book
Magic in the Water; wet finishing handwovens As a kid, I loved words, stories. I read voraciously and dreamt one day of writing, too. But I soon realized that I didn’t have stories to tell, as such. It wasn’t until I became a weaver that I realized that my stories were all weaving related.…
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Thinking Things Through
cover for Stories from the Matrix Most people seem to assume that creativity bursts upon one in a sudden, perfect thought, no editing or changing allowed. We watch a program called Fake or Fortune. In it an art dealer/expert and a journalist pair up to try and trace the provenance and/or originality of a…
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Memories
This morning Facebook showed me a ‘memory’ – the arrival of the actual hard copy books for the pre-orders of The Intentional Weaver, Six years. My how time flies! But the memories are not just of the arrival of the completed books, but go back, at least 4 years beyond that because I actually…
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Memories
This morning Facebook showed me a ‘memory’ – the arrival of the actual hard copy books for the pre-orders of The Intentional Weaver, Six years. My how time flies! But the memories are not just of the arrival of the completed books, but go back, at least 4 years beyond that because I actually…
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Memories
This morning Facebook showed me a ‘memory’ – the arrival of the actual hard copy books for the pre-orders of The Intentional Weaver, Six years. My how time flies! But the memories are not just of the arrival of the completed books, but go back, at least 4 years beyond that because I actually…
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Stash Mysteries
blue – Brassard 2/8 cotton, white – US 8/2 cotton In preparation for doing some experiments I dug through my cotton stash looking for appropriate yarns. I was pretty sure I had yarn that was designated 8/2, even though I routinely work with the Brassard yarn which used to be designated 2/8 on their…
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Mystery Yarn
digital microscope look at a mystery yarn I inherited a great deal of yarn from a weaver, some of the cones no longer had labels and I couldn’t really tell what fibre they were by just looking at it. But I have two *very* large cones of this white mystery yarn and decided it…