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  weft yarn for next article This week the yarn I ordered for the next article will arrive.  The ‘extra’ weft I need arrived today, so I can begin analyzing it and start thinking about the details of how I will set up the experiment and document the yarns. (Yes, I have to order yarn…

  draft showing one repeat in the threading, two in the treadling and the hem area This is a draft from Ars Textrina, one of the drafts from one of the old German weaving pattern books, translated by Pat Hilts. The draft was originally developed for 12 shafts, but I have 16, so I extended…

  Twill tea towel woven by Sheila Carey Now that the mail is flowing again, we have been receiving some.  This morning this arrived.  Who better to appreciate a hand woven textile than another weaver?! It is already living in the tea towel drawer in the kitchen – spouse knew exactly where it belonged. More…

  Well, it IS winter, might as well do woven winter themes? This is a draft based on one of the old German weaving manuscripts (Ars Textrina article by Pat Hilts).  I extended the draft to 16 shafts, and wove it in 2/16 cotton in pale green and grey in the warp, and the fine…

  This is just part of the draft for the new warp.  I started with the snowflake I used in the warp before the last one, and played around with it to create a ‘centre field’ that was the same weave structure but woven ‘roses’ instead of ‘star’.  You can see the beginning of the…

 frosty window Or the winter of our discontent? I am getting mightily discontented with Google.  Now it will not let me use a different browser when I write blog posts and upload photos using that other browser.  I’m not talking about photos I’ve ‘borrowed’ from another website, but upload photos *from my own computer*, most…

  Two sections one turn ‘short’ Playing ‘yarn chicken’ is something that most fibre folk run into from time to time.  It is when you see the end of the yarn coming and you aren’t entirely sure you have enough left for the project in hand. Well, I had a couple sections ‘short’ (and one…

  Two sections one turn ‘short’ Playing ‘yarn chicken’ is something that most fibre folk run into from time to time.  It is when you see the end of the yarn coming and you aren’t entirely sure you have enough left for the project in hand. Well, I had a couple sections ‘short’ (and one…

  Two sections one turn ‘short’ Playing ‘yarn chicken’ is something that most fibre folk run into from time to time.  It is when you see the end of the yarn coming and you aren’t entirely sure you have enough left for the project in hand. Well, I had a couple sections ‘short’ (and one…