Fan Reed (2)

I originally intended to have brown, red and white in the warp but changed my mind to brown, red and orange/yellow. The above comes from Fibreworks and shows the warp colours including the two half-sections at the ends. At the moment, the weft will be white but I might change my mind on that. In addition and not shown above, there will be 4 threads of dark blue at every colour change. I have nearly completed the warp winding and might just start on warping up later today.

We (Michael and I) have reconsidered the enamel covers for the next Coptic book. I had not realised that each enamel is enamelled on front and back. This means that drilling through is likely to take off a circle of the enamelled surface on the back and that would show. However in Michael's stash, there are some high class pieces of sycamore  which is a few millimetres thick., So the current plan is for me to sand these down, drill the binding holes in the wood and glue the enamel plate down with Araldite. After that worked, I would then wax polish the wood. Fortunately there is enough wood and spare enamel plates to do a trial piece.

Went to Guild meeting yesterday and wrestled with the problems of our residential weekend in early May. Spent some more time on it this morning. I am left with two problems. One person has paid some money and gone to ground. The other has never paid anything.  So messages left on answering machines.