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  • Only a Hobby

    Only a Hobby

    well used padded gloves I needed when I was dealing with nerve pain from a pinched nerve in my neck   I saw online this morning that someone was giving another person a ‘hard’ time because they were working on their ‘hobby’.  How could they when the world was going to hell in a basket?…

  • A Long History

    A Long History

      Ars Textrina is a publication very few people knew about but I collected as many as I could.  During a purge of my library a few years ago, I sold off all of them – except for these two. Patricia Hilts had obtained some weaving books from the 1600s or so, from Germany, translated…

  • A Long History

    A Long History

      Ars Textrina is a publication very few people knew about but I collected as many as I could.  During a purge of my library a few years ago, I sold off all of them – except for these two. Patricia Hilts had obtained some weaving books from the 1600s or so, from Germany, translated…

  • A Long History

    A Long History

      Ars Textrina is a publication very few people knew about but I collected as many as I could.  During a purge of my library a few years ago, I sold off all of them – except for these two. Patricia Hilts had obtained some weaving books from the 1600s or so, from Germany, translated…

  • Jump Through Hoops

    Jump Through Hoops

      A number of people have commented that they don’t have enough shafts to do Swedish Snowflake with a border so today I offer people with 8 shafts a way to do a border with centre field. Any four shaft threading can be treated the same, once the technique is understood.  To do it loom…

  • Not Set in Stone

    Not Set in Stone

       snowflake twill towel I cut the blue/grey warp off the loom last week, wet finished and started hemming them. Since I have made significant changes to the draft to the current warp, and some to this previous one, I’m not sure I can any longer call it ‘Swedish Snowflake’ (as we know it in…

  • Fiddling Around

    Fiddling Around

      I’m ‘done’ weaving the samples for the next article and I still have warp left on the loom.  So I messed around with the threading (so it would fit ‘better’ at 30 epi) and – since weaving the *actual* article pieces requires a level of concentration I find very tiring to sustain for long,…

  • Fiddling Around

    Fiddling Around

      I’m ‘done’ weaving the samples for the next article and I still have warp left on the loom.  So I messed around with the threading (so it would fit ‘better’ at 30 epi) and – since weaving the *actual* article pieces requires a level of concentration I find very tiring to sustain for long,…

  • Fiddling Around

    Fiddling Around

      I’m ‘done’ weaving the samples for the next article and I still have warp left on the loom.  So I messed around with the threading (so it would fit ‘better’ at 30 epi) and – since weaving the *actual* article pieces requires a level of concentration I find very tiring to sustain for long,…

  • Fiddling Around

    Fiddling Around

      I’m ‘done’ weaving the samples for the next article and I still have warp left on the loom.  So I messed around with the threading (so it would fit ‘better’ at 30 epi) and – since weaving the *actual* article pieces requires a level of concentration I find very tiring to sustain for long,…