Thursday 11 July 2013

Weaving Rather Slowly

This is the jacket fabric. Actually the colour is more oatmealy than yellow.
I got the loom warped up by Tuesday night and errors corrected (only one - a crossed thread). Yesterday was not totally devoted to weaving but I managed 50 cm. It is slow because I am using stick shuttles. I could speed things up by putting the alpaca onto a boat shuttle.
This is a close up.

Yesterday was a virtuous day. I summer pruned all the fruit cordons and thinned the fruit. We are going to have a bumper crop of pears this year. I also picked some goosberries. The blackcurrant crop is enormous as well.

The last of the root canal work was done yesterday. All sorts of new technology used which was interesting.  And I felt fine afterwards.

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I am weaver and - -. I dye my yarns with acid dyes, I paint my warps, put fabric collages and stencils on my weaving. I have three looms, a 12 inch wide, 12 shaft Meyer for demos and courses, a 30 inch Louet Kombo which is nominally portable but has a stand, two extra beams and a home-made device containing a fan reed. And last a 32 shaft Louet Megado which is computer controlled, has a sectional warp and a second warp beam and I am the proud owner of an AVL warping wheel which I love to bits and started by drilling holes in. I inserted a device for putting a cross in. I have just acquired an inkle loom and had a lesson from an expert so I can watch TV and weave at the same time. I am interested in weaving with silk mostly 60/2 although I do quite a bit with 90/2 silk. I also count myself as a bookbinder with a special interest in Coptic binding.