Category: wet finishing
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Tracking
I did an article for WEFT (vol 1?) that talked about tracking, and included a photo of a cloth woven in twill and showed the tracking effect on that twill cloth. It was very subtle, and hard to see, but if I looked closely enough, it was clearly there. The thing is, tracking is…
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Soap/Detergent
Clear water before adding soap (left) and detergent (right) After stirring in the soap and detergent I don’t know how long the link will be active but the video can be seen on my Facebook page here. I live in an area that has ‘hard’ water – i.e. naturally occurring minerals dissolved in the…
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Soap/Detergent
Clear water before adding soap (left) and detergent (right) After stirring in the soap and detergent I don’t know how long the link will be active but the video can be seen on my Facebook page here. I live in an area that has ‘hard’ water – i.e. naturally occurring minerals dissolved in the…
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Soap/Detergent
Clear water before adding soap (left) and detergent (right) After stirring in the soap and detergent I don’t know how long the link will be active but the video can be seen on my Facebook page here. I live in an area that has ‘hard’ water – i.e. naturally occurring minerals dissolved in the…
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In The Hand
I know the photo doesn’t look like much. What it shows is two samples. Actually it is the identical cloth, but cut in half and then one of the samples was hard pressed and the other left to dry without compression. The cloth develops a great deal of texture, and I wanted to see…
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Light Duties
blurb web site One of the social media sites I belong to has a thread about weaving while sick/injured/disabled. I have hesitated to say much because every person’s journey is different. And mine has certainly been filled with times where I was ‘confined’ to ‘light duties’. Now, being one of them. I had such…
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Soap Box
wet finished loom state Heading into my 51st year as a weaver, I have been constantly amazed – and intrigued – by the transformation of the loom state web into the finished cloth. It has been a constant learning experience as I worked with different yarns, in different weave structures, and experimented with the…
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Soap Box
wet finished loom state Heading into my 51st year as a weaver, I have been constantly amazed – and intrigued – by the transformation of the loom state web into the finished cloth. It has been a constant learning experience as I worked with different yarns, in different weave structures, and experimented with the…
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Soap Box
wet finished loom state Heading into my 51st year as a weaver, I have been constantly amazed – and intrigued – by the transformation of the loom state web into the finished cloth. It has been a constant learning experience as I worked with different yarns, in different weave structures, and experimented with the…
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Soap Box
wet finished loom state Heading into my 51st year as a weaver, I have been constantly amazed – and intrigued – by the transformation of the loom state web into the finished cloth. It has been a constant learning experience as I worked with different yarns, in different weave structures, and experimented with the…