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There are routine questions that come up over and over again. Answers to such questions are varied, some more ‘helpful’ than others. When getting started at the loom, there is an approach I see pretty routinely. The weaver ties on, then begins weaving by jamming the first pick down against the knots as closely as…

Recently I’ve seen a few people asking for ‘memoirs’ of people who have been involved in fibres, built their lives around them, and lived for and around them. Happens that I have one. My store isn’t a nice agrarian life. I didn’t live on a farm, raise sheep, etc. Instead I chose weaving as a…

This morning I saw a scientist laying out why it is necessary to always cite your sources, credit those who have helped you. And I had to think about my experience in learning, then teaching weaving. First of all, weaving has a history as old as humans. We did not arise this century (or last)…

I’ve been seeing posts online about books and AI. It appears that AI businesses are buying up rare books, destroying them by cutting them apart in order to scan them, upload them to their ‘cloud’ and then trash the original pages. So far as I’m aware, no AI has scanned my book, possibly because I…

At the seminar on Sunday, I discussed some books that people might find helpful. Since the topic was A Good Yarn, I referenced A Guide To Textiles For Interior Designers by Jackman and Dixon. There are lots of textile science books around, I have almost a dozen, but this is the one that I turn…

Well, seminar one is in the can (if you are old enough to get the reference) and a few more bugs popped up regarding the recording. However, it *looks* like we have wrangled that problem into submission and all lessons learned will be applied to the following seminars, and the next set of seminars. We…

I have, for most of my life, dealt with Impostor Syndrome. I am 76 years old. And a part of me still cringes, wondering if I’m good enough. Even though I have worked on that tendency to assume I’m not good enough – for years. Decades. Right now I am about to launch myself into…

Well, it’s show time – tomorrow. We are having a pleasant autumn (for us, autumn begins after Labour Day) and we have been promised ‘second summer’. So far, it’s looking nice for the coming week. Personally I have been working on…myself. There comes a time when the body demands it. However, I am still trying…

Much ado about problems. I came to the craft with two ‘advantages’ – I had a pretty well rounded background in textiles and I was, by nature, a problem solver. The former gave me some (not nearly enough) knowledge about textiles in general, and the latter gave me the attitude to examine issues as they…