Saturday 13 April 2019

Wisley in April

Wisley in April is very colourful. The alpine daffodil meadow is at its height. There are magnolia trees in flower and the Alpine houses are a riot.

Dorothy and I went there yesterday. About an hour and a half from here except that we got snarled up in two different traffic jams coming home and it took more that an hour longer. By the time we reached home we were both frazzled. The way we organised it. Dorothy is doing an online course with a lot of sketching in it so we went place where she could sit down and sketch whilse I prowled about with a camera. I have forgotten all that I did on the OCA course and, although I have been taking a lot of photos recently , I need to do far more. Anyway out of 66 photos yesterday, I onlt had to discard 7 which is getting better.

I have nearly finished weaving on the Schacht. In fact I have done a first!! I have run out of weft yarn before getting to the end of the warp! I have about 0l.5 metre left and have found some darker brown to finish off the warp.

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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.