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Sally Pointer
Sally Pointer is an archeologist specializing in experimental – or perhaps I could say experiential – archeology. Today when I finally started tackling my silk scarves to get them closer to ready for the guild sale at the end of this month, I grabbed my ipad and checked in the Podcast app for what the…
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Reviewing A Life
A few years ago I felt compelled to write about my life as a professional production weaver. Several friends helped by reading my rough draft(s) and then another friend agreed to edit the manuscript. Since starting the current seminar series, I have been thinking a lot about my life – what I have done, the…
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Light Duties
I had hoped to get the current warp off the loom today, but we had a double dose of vaccines booked at midday (Covid and flu) and instead of weaving I’m making a pan of oat squares (because I ran out) and tomorrow will also be a light duty day because I have more ‘therapy’,…
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Training Wheels
I love to see a ‘new’ weaver learning to fly. Some people get SO excited, they want to leap into the deep end. Not something I want to discourage, but here’s the thing: I want people about to leap into the deep end to be wearing a life jacket. Or, at the very least, water…
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Website
Depending on how you access my blog, you my find that my website has been tweaked. If you follow the link I provide on various social sites, you may not be aware of the resources on my website. Yesterday my web wizard updated features for the blog. It now has a search button on the…
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Weaving A Life
This morning I spent another hour or so with my physiotherapist. We discussed my progress (inchworm rate) and she walked me through more exercises to assess that progress for herself. Because a patient doesn’t always have a good handle what is happening to their bodies. I understand, and appreciate the ‘back up’. She remains encouraging,…
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Repairing The Loom
I had high hopes for today. Nothing else booked, the day spread out before me with an invitation to get to the loom twice to weave. Life had other plans. Just as I was starting to judge if I had woven to the end of the sweet spot so I could stop for the first…
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Dimensional Loss
‘Shrinkage’ or dimensional loss is something I talk about – a lot. It is a phenomenon that exists and is largely unavoidable. The challenge is figuring out how much it will happen. Since I have written about it, produced weaving classes etc., it seems redundant to address it again. But there are new weavers entering…
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Allen Fannin
Last week I had a chance to chat with a younger weaver who is researching Allen Fannin. During the course of the conversation they mentioned that they were having a lot of trouble finding archival records – written or woven – and they were discouraged there is so little information available about the studio operations…
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Tension
Another seminar done, so now I’m thinking about the next. The title is The Goldilocks Zone and part of it will be discussing the various ‘spectrums’ when it comes to working with thread. One of the most puzzling, to some new weavers, is the issue of tension. Mostly humans expect ‘tension’ to be a negative…