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This morning I received the following email: “I’m XXX, founder of XXXXX. I came across your site, laurafry.com, and your work as a weaver and weaving teacher. I’m writing because I think there’s a useful way to turn your teaching method into something your students can use on their own. Here’s the idea: a student…

Yesterday I finished the linen and made a start on the blue weft. The photo might be a little hard to see as the values of the warp and weft are fairly close, but I wanted to show 1.5 repeats of the pattern. The motif is based on the ‘star’ formation of the sequence, which…

Yesterday I finished threading the warp and this morning I sleyed and tied it onto the apron rod. The ‘test’ treadling draft is ready but I have dentist today and massage tomorrow and I’m thinking I better not weave for a couple of days. 🙁 If I don’t feel too bad after the dentist I…

Yesterday I was able to clear the decks, get set up for and begin threading. Threading can be a bit of a challenge, especially as threading progressions get more complex. As a new weaver I worked out a system that worked for me, mostly. It was when I bought a computer (based on the operating…

This morning the mail consisted of my two copies of WEFT. I subscribed ‘early’ so I have ‘my’ copy, plus I get a physical copy of the magazine when I have an article appearing between the pages. I chose to write about the things we ‘waste’ when we practice our craft. I chose to talk…

I see videos on line all the time from people who urge weavers to use ergonomic motions and position/posture. And then demonstrate methods that aren’t actually all that ergonomic. Who am I to tell people what to do? Well, I’ve confirmed what I worked out mostly on my own after a good grounding by my…

… what you don’t know, you don’t know that you don’t know it… I don’t remember who first mentioned this saying to me, but I’ve never forgotten it. Given one of my life goals was to try to teach people about the craft of weaving, it was a good reminder that when teaching a large,…

This week I got very little done. Too many other things interferring with getting to the studio. However, that said, I did finish weaving the red tow linen, the last of the mats got cut apart and serged, then inspected and repaired, and then wet finished. I pressed the mats yesterday and now have the…

Yesterday I wet finished the second batch of linen place mats. I expected the dye to run and tossed 3 Color Catchers into the washing machine and let it run through the wash cycle with hot water wash, cold water rinse, with a double rinse. At the end of that cycle I dug around until…

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…