Category: towels
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Persistence
https://www.youtube.com/user/LauraAnnFry1/videos Persistence There are times when I hit a pot hole in life and I just kind of…fall in. The world, as they say, has been too much with me. Yesterday I came to the realization that part of my problem with working on short form video clip ‘lessons’ is that I can’t produce them…
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Halfway
Yesterday I got to the halfway point of the current warp. Crossing the grey/blue warp with white means that one side of the cloth is predominantly white, the other shows more of the warp. The warp colours are very similar in value so the effect is more subtle. Quiet. The variegated yarn has white/blue/pink…
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Staying ‘Motivated’
shelves of hand woven textiles My ‘inventory’ has grown over the past year plus, in no small part due to the pandemic and the closure of shops and other sales events. My woven textile stock is now about four times this, and grows daily if I can manage my two towels per day goal.…
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Am I Blue?
how it started… how it’s going… Yesterday I had personal maintenance, but managed to get going in the morning and weave the first towel on the mostly blue warp. The photo doesn’t do it justice, and of course the view is of the ‘back’ side of the cloth. I set it up to weave…
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A New Month
Yesterday I got this far by 4:30 pm and called it a day. There are a couple of minor tweaks but otherwise it’s ready as soon as I get some bobbins wound for weft. I was going to do that last night but by the time I got downstairs I was too tired so…
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Not Bored
As expected, I got four towels each from the peach and the rose. The peach is a lighter value than the rose and the towels look quite different. On the peach towel, where all the colours are approximately the same value, the overall look is more subdued with slight differences in hue giving the…
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Colour in Weaving
Right now I’m (supposed to be) working on a Power Point about colour in weaving – how weave structure will affect how we view the colour among other things. This morning I took the above photo in part to show that I had actually begun to weave this warp that is more than 50%…
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Roadblocks
When I get stressed, I start to procrastinate. When I procrastinate, everything I am stressing about seems to loom larger. So then I wind up with increased stress and problems that simply get bigger and more difficult to deal with. And round I go. Until I finally get a round tuit and start dealing…
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Peach and Rose
Yesterday I didn’t go to the loom but took a day ‘off’ from weaving. Instead I puttered, thought (subliminally) about the next warps I wanted to do. Then collected the yarn for another warp. This one will go into the loom after the beige warp that will have the last of the black and…
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Ready to Launch
This will be the next warp in the current series. It has undergone multiple changes but it is time now to say ok, this is it. So I will wind two spools of the variegated and then when the current warp comes off, likely Tuesday, this one will go on. I don’t think there…