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Boudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.comBlogger1223125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755568855319050817.post-30893216941945820182021-03-07T08:48:00.003-08:002021-03-07T08:48:47.817-08:00Moving a bit, please follow along<p>As you probably know, if you read both my current blogs, https://fieldfen.blogspot.com and this one you're reading now, I run two simultaneous blogs, and you can follow either or both as the mood takes you. However, I know I have readers in here who are not aware of the other, Field and Fen, blog, and I would like you to note the blog address above, because I'm planning to collapse both blogs into one.</p><p>I've been thinking about this for a while, since my art life has changed a lot. I have moved on from exhibiting, after the pandemic pretty much blew away all the opportunities I used to have, and my work shows best in person, not in online images for exhibit purposes. I left on a high note, with a purchase award to a public collection, so that's nice to think about.</p><p>However, it's probably better if I combine both blogs. I will leave this one open, so anyone can read, scroll back, comments, etc., as usual, but all my posts will be seen in Field and Fen. There will be a lot of art postings, as there have been in here, that's not changing, but, all musings will be in one place. You won't miss anything if you start reading Field and Fen. But you'l see a lot of other stuff in addition to art.<br /></p><p>My third blog, https://princetonega.blogspot.com continues to be open, though it is several years since I posted there, after I finished my officer status with the Guild.</p><p>The thing is that Blogger doesn't let me put blogs in alphabetical order, so when people click on my name elsewhere and are brought to my blog area, they get Art the Beautiful Metaphor,and probably assume the others are closed. Often that's true with bloggers who go on to make a new blog in a new vein.</p><p>So that's where we are, and I fervently hope I don't lose any of you who read exclusively in here. There will be plenty to keep up with at https://fieldfen.blogspot.com starting right now! At least as soon as I get over there and post the updates on the spun, plied, knitted and woven jacket, which is currently a vest.</p><p>And thank you all very much for your support and interest in here. Please follow across...<br /></p>Boudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755568855319050817.post-54063163313351327192021-02-20T13:03:00.001-08:002021-02-20T13:03:54.138-08:00Color, clothes, and other casual musings<p>I've been thinking about color, and clothes. And colors I like together and some I really really don't. Not in nature, since all the colors work, nor in art, since color carries meaning and structure. In clothes.</p><p>Yesterday I was wearing a lovely bright green knitted jacket, a sort of mixed green yarn, but very cheerful, with a white turtleneck (of course, it's winter). And I got thinking about what I like to wear and see together in clothes.</p><p>I love yellow and white outfits. I know some people say ew, fried eggs, but anyway. And I can't bear blue and yellow together, sets my teeth on edge. And purple makes bile come up in my throat. In fact just now as I was thinking about a purple jacket I have, it was cashmere, it was cheap, so I have it, I literally started to cough because bile came up in my throat. This is all about synaesthesia, I guess.</p><p>I love various shades of pink, don't like red at all. And I really really don't like pink and purple together. I love blue and tan, and white and tan. And black and tan with white.</p><p>And I don't at all like blue and red together. They set up an optical dazzle I find upsetting. And red white and blue, oh well, it's important to allow for it sometimes, but it's not my favorite combo.</p><p>Neon colors are not for me at all, in anything, even in "nature" where it's hybridized flowers created to have dazzling colors. Noooooo, thank you. Especially not when it's zinnias and marigolds.</p><p>Some dark yellows give me a bitter taste, but the buttery ones taste sweet. Literally.</p><p>The funny part about colors I don't like is that people have more than a few times noticed an absence of say, red or purple, in my wardrobe and thought, oh, a good chance for a present. And given me red jackets, and purple scarves and other such things. Not realizing there's a reason I don't have them! but it's kind, and thoughtful. I did have a red skirt suit, very posh, at one office period of my life, which was chosen to make sure I kept the attention of the meetings I was at. It wasn't because I liked it much. But it definitely served its purpose. <br /></p><p>And moving briefly to art, here's a large piece I created many years ago, painted on silk. </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uTJFMRO2nfk/YDF3--GbWXI/AAAAAAAApMA/dyH-3a6Hj9kHv4e17IepdOyBbXchZgykQCPcBGAsYHg/s2378/IMG_20210219_095019320.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1121" data-original-width="2378" height="189" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uTJFMRO2nfk/YDF3--GbWXI/AAAAAAAApMA/dyH-3a6Hj9kHv4e17IepdOyBbXchZgykQCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h189/IMG_20210219_095019320.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p> To me it's hot and anxious and a bit disturbing, but it was something I needed to say at the time. To my amazement when it was exhibited, more than one person said, oh, how calm and peaceful that is. I'd like to sink into that scene. Huh? </p><p>I think they were reading the composition, long horizontal lines, which do denote a peaceful atmosphere, and I was reading the colors, so there you are. You learn stuff all the time.<br /></p>Boudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755568855319050817.post-56834637627299880512021-02-18T14:10:00.002-08:002021-02-18T14:10:30.214-08:00Jacket components, some of them<p> This is where we are. Jacket bits. Top left, woven lapel. Not yet steamed. Top right, loom warped up ready to weave second lapel. Bottom left and right, jacket lower fronts.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CvOc-sJ7LH4/YC7LwuhjUWI/AAAAAAAApI4/cw0C2o_5f50yeRGa4EmpGmrO7UpOvHT9ACPcBGAsYHg/s3722/IMG_20210218_140851464.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3722" data-original-width="2984" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CvOc-sJ7LH4/YC7LwuhjUWI/AAAAAAAApI4/cw0C2o_5f50yeRGa4EmpGmrO7UpOvHT9ACPcBGAsYHg/w321-h400/IMG_20210218_140851464.jpg" width="321" /></a></div><br /><p>You see on the left there the section that juts out? That will go under the arm to meet the back. </p><p>But first I need to weave the second lapel. I'm slowed down a bit by needing to rest between spinning. So supplying the yarn to weave is slow. </p><p>Weaving is easier, once I get the yarn spun, because I can do it with either hand, so it's not a constant demand on one arm or the other. Then I'll attach the lapels to the lower section on each side.</p><p>We'll get there! Watch this space.</p>Boudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755568855319050817.post-45228373742720776482021-02-14T13:01:00.000-08:002021-02-14T13:01:00.571-08:00Woven yoke progress<p>Still working on one side of the yoke, as you see. The stripes are working nicely. The reason you haven't seen spinning and plying posts in here, and not much weaving, either, is that I have a little shoulder problem which has knocked me out of spinning. It gets okay, I start to spin, and it's gone off again. I will get there eventually. And this is as far as the first yoke has got, largely because I'm running out of yarn to weave. Weaving takes quite a bit of yarn, especially when you're making it to suit.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ua0YA9HNx5M/YCmBQvaqClI/AAAAAAAAo_0/n4fpBFrlEkwYc37KkdcyZhamnBpU9P19wCPcBGAsYHg/s2905/IMG_20210214_145736405.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2887" data-original-width="2905" height="399" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ua0YA9HNx5M/YCmBQvaqClI/AAAAAAAAo_0/n4fpBFrlEkwYc37KkdcyZhamnBpU9P19wCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h399/IMG_20210214_145736405.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>But we'll get there. Meanwhile, I have a cunning plan. I'll get both yokes finished and attached, then join the side seams, and I will then have a vest. I've already stitched the two backs together, and they work nicely. So I can wear it as a vest while I get on with spinning enough to make the sleeves. No need for it all to just lie around in heaps until every last little bit is done.</p><p>And it may be necessary to crochet some joining on bits to make sure the yoke and the shoulder fit together well. We'll see once there's enough put together. Meanwhile, the back is looking good.</p><p>At this rate, this jacket will have incorporated almost all the fiber arts I know. Up to now: spinning, plying, knitting, weaving, sewing.<br /></p>Boudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755568855319050817.post-12874770467470708492021-02-08T09:01:00.001-08:002021-02-08T09:01:36.907-08:00Simple mobiles for everyone<p>This is a good time, ahead of Valentine's Day, which I hold this truth to be self evident, that it's a day for friendship, to hell with the Hallmark card assumptions about romantic relationships, you can enjoy it and so can your friends, all of them, single and otherwise.</p><p>And one thing you can make is your own decorations, at home, using what's there. <br /></p><p>Sooooo, here's a nice thing to make, easy, and kids like doing this too, always a good point for grandparents wanting to occupy the little guys. These are all mobiles which hang in a two dimensional plane. Meaning, no balancing required as for "real" three dimensional ones which require a lot of skill and time to get the balance right.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xFBdAD0-Bx0/YCFYgdySRoI/AAAAAAAAoyA/65zK8HmIb_g25P_Im_SUyMlsbFEEcVtywCPcBGAsYHg/s3264/IMG_20210208_102323994.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xFBdAD0-Bx0/YCFYgdySRoI/AAAAAAAAoyA/65zK8HmIb_g25P_Im_SUyMlsbFEEcVtywCPcBGAsYHg/s320/IMG_20210208_102323994.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IMdcQx4_70E/YCFYgW3VJzI/AAAAAAAAoyA/IrHufCvTsfAWELtJiD6ZXBRU5ZlOZRdeQCPcBGAsYHg/s3264/IMG_20210208_102320860.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="1127" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IMdcQx4_70E/YCFYgW3VJzI/AAAAAAAAoyA/IrHufCvTsfAWELtJiD6ZXBRU5ZlOZRdeQCPcBGAsYHg/s320/IMG_20210208_102320860.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t9Rs7s6l00Y/YCFYgW1IJlI/AAAAAAAAoyA/J98l-aQkPZcSRr8gsHO7biPr2pH6SQHdwCPcBGAsYHg/s3264/IMG_20210208_102315233.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t9Rs7s6l00Y/YCFYgW1IJlI/AAAAAAAAoyA/J98l-aQkPZcSRr8gsHO7biPr2pH6SQHdwCPcBGAsYHg/s320/IMG_20210208_102315233.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v9h0F4xkR7I/YCFYgSpIJLI/AAAAAAAAoyA/oDt1WUJ4fhsuG-JAnEIkr7KXYrit4F9ggCPcBGAsYHg/s3233/IMG_20210208_102252152.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3233" data-original-width="1288" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v9h0F4xkR7I/YCFYgSpIJLI/AAAAAAAAoyA/oDt1WUJ4fhsuG-JAnEIkr7KXYrit4F9ggCPcBGAsYHg/s320/IMG_20210208_102252152.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zZcpWItuOy4/YCFYgep98MI/AAAAAAAAoyA/UxFbn6VWtFM9jxtWK3dlVLFSVGRkZCnuACPcBGAsYHg/s2920/IMG_20210208_102235877.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2920" data-original-width="1789" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zZcpWItuOy4/YCFYgep98MI/AAAAAAAAoyA/UxFbn6VWtFM9jxtWK3dlVLFSVGRkZCnuACPcBGAsYHg/s320/IMG_20210208_102235877.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4SeuBDkrnRY/YCFYgaMHs5I/AAAAAAAAoyA/SyssyqnrriYUWgu2JWYEJ-qWJEA84OMDQCPcBGAsYHg/s2591/IMG_20210208_101650418.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2591" data-original-width="1390" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4SeuBDkrnRY/YCFYgaMHs5I/AAAAAAAAoyA/SyssyqnrriYUWgu2JWYEJ-qWJEA84OMDQCPcBGAsYHg/s320/IMG_20210208_101650418.jpg" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">They're all in my downstairs bathroom, hence the masses of other small artworks all round, mostly by me, some by artist friends who wanted to get in on the act.</div><p>The mobiles are simple: chopsticks or other long thin wood sticks, string, white glue, paper of any kind. You cut shapes, two of each shape, however you like, and however you want to decorate them, or cut from origami paper or anything that can be glued easily. </p><p>Then you create a hanging loop for the main stick, and tie strings of different lengths to hang down pleasingly in a design. Then glue so that the string is captured within the two sides of each paper shape. That's it. And very pleasing they can be. You can hang on a wall or suspend from a ceiling or shelf or anything you like, really.</p><p>And they are a bit addictive, I must admit. I gave away some, at that time. As you see, I used origami cranes, birds cut from a picture book, bits of my own prints leftover, Arp- like shapes. Whatever seemed like fun at the time. Busted up unreadable old picture books can yield nice trees, houses, flowers, that sort of thing. And wrapping paper likewise. Colored newspaper sections about fruit and veggies. Watercolors that didn't make it. Just look around.</p><p>And enjoy a bit of escapist fun.<br /></p><p><br /></p>Boudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755568855319050817.post-11758180903762536332021-02-06T13:45:00.000-08:002021-02-06T13:45:24.499-08:00Woven yoke under way<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TbmErUdZEBc/YB8HzCdiD_I/AAAAAAAAoqo/i5nmGl_H1TYpOFY-xKO0LiKIdLYg1GrhACPcBGAsYHg/s2479/IMG_20210206_161451854.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1922" data-original-width="2479" height="310" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TbmErUdZEBc/YB8HzCdiD_I/AAAAAAAAoqo/i5nmGl_H1TYpOFY-xKO0LiKIdLYg1GrhACPcBGAsYHg/w400-h310/IMG_20210206_161451854.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Here's the start of the yoke, and you can see what I meant about vertical stripes. The cardboard loom is a simple idea, and works fine. </p><p>This is either the right or left front yoke, depending on how well it works when it's off the loom and in place. It's two sided, so it's about colors working together rather than the finish. There won't be a "wrong" side.</p><p>And here's the cotton yarn I used to warp the loom</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZetcBDFeWyw/YB8LvzILfXI/AAAAAAAAorQ/6xHbvTDq52sjEuP_clzTcVgUw1vlDXNpgCPcBGAsYHg/s1777/IMG_20210206_162026468.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1777" data-original-width="1375" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZetcBDFeWyw/YB8LvzILfXI/AAAAAAAAorQ/6xHbvTDq52sjEuP_clzTcVgUw1vlDXNpgCPcBGAsYHg/w309-h400/IMG_20210206_162026468.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><br /><p>It's not supposed to show through the weft, but it will blend in pretty well if any shows. With an irregular yarn like a homespun, you allow for it.</p><p>Very glad I settled on four wpi. It's working fine.</p><p>Meanwhile, busy spinning the yarn for the weft. </p>Boudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755568855319050817.post-21975271926603424342021-02-04T08:49:00.003-08:002021-02-04T08:53:08.787-08:00Sharing a textile artist I hadn't known before, Amy Meissner<p></p><p>Just a quickie here to let you know of a textile artist you may know,
but I didn't: Amy Meissner, a worker in textiles who emphasizes
upcycling and honoring women's stitching work, into wallhanging quilts
with all kinds of interest and ideas in them. Did you know there was a
repair culture? I didn't until I noticed her credentials.</p><p>Anyway, K. sent me the link, she never fails to come through with interesting ideas for me, and here it is:<br /><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AYXiPxbHJU&list=PL8wATen2F83_m7MQtG-fyS8sPcKzgZeSx&index=31" target="_blank">Amy Meissner textile artist</a> </p><br />Boudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755568855319050817.post-7289677664581235732021-02-02T10:57:00.000-08:002021-02-02T10:57:15.211-08:00Weaving the yokes<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kFN6XYOFVrg/YBl1GmnfYPI/AAAAAAAAohg/qBUeYqkZRgw9V7KCjJgqbv2uwpEPZk8HgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_20210202_103926789.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1526" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kFN6XYOFVrg/YBl1GmnfYPI/AAAAAAAAohg/qBUeYqkZRgw9V7KCjJgqbv2uwpEPZk8HgCLcBGAsYHQ/w298-h400/IMG_20210202_103926789.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><p>So here are the two fronts, at least the bottom part, finished, needing to be steamed and blocked, which is why they look a bit irregular. They'll match once steamed. One needs ends woven in, too. But after that, and after I join together the two backispieces, I will be finishing the front yokes.</p><p>By weaving a piece of weft faced fabric, i.e. tapestry, to create the shape. I had thought of knitting it, but then couldn't be bothered with the calculations needed to get the decreases right, twice, once left, once right. So I thought, since I've been wanting to make a cardboard loom to shape for ages, here's the chance.</p><p>It did involve a bit of counting and figuring, but here's the basic loom shape, in matboard, a piece of which I found left from an old artwork, it pays to save stuff.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VSh9d86qq0g/YBl1H1OIHNI/AAAAAAAAoho/w58UZ22GFIsJg0et6Hqtxeb4YdMphkifwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_20210202_103943374.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VSh9d86qq0g/YBl1H1OIHNI/AAAAAAAAoho/w58UZ22GFIsJg0et6Hqtxeb4YdMphkifwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/IMG_20210202_103943374.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>On the right, reading right to left, you see the diagram I'm working from, which I made along the lines of a jacket that I have that I like the fit of, then the little diagram of the yoke itself, and the actual cut out yoke shaped loom.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-12z9zIcTgDY/YBl1BD44zNI/AAAAAAAAohU/CS1jmOogPs4UsuEvh40TcH5FkgBTciU2ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_20210202_104046112.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1634" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-12z9zIcTgDY/YBl1BD44zNI/AAAAAAAAohU/CS1jmOogPs4UsuEvh40TcH5FkgBTciU2ACLcBGAsYHQ/w319-h400/IMG_20210202_104046112.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1hvCmNcL0TI/YBl1H7Z56kI/AAAAAAAAohk/-5ToWyZgwBouqGY2DFLLSIvpdLtiinUHQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_20210202_104052859.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1792" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1hvCmNcL0TI/YBl1H7Z56kI/AAAAAAAAohk/-5ToWyZgwBouqGY2DFLLSIvpdLtiinUHQCLcBGAsYHQ/w350-h400/IMG_20210202_104052859.jpg" width="350" /></a></div><br /> And the reason I marked it right and left is not that it matters to the loom, but that it matters to me to remember to have the right sides opposite each other. Usually my finishing is good enough that both sides work fine, but you never know. I don't want to have two lefts or two rights.<br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oCzY4oFSD_M/YBmH-5ZSN8I/AAAAAAAAoi8/Il8jRNDftk4xix-WHxqKRG0J7dUituVYQCPcBGAsYHg/s4160/IMG_20210202_120739827.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="2945" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oCzY4oFSD_M/YBmH-5ZSN8I/AAAAAAAAoi8/Il8jRNDftk4xix-WHxqKRG0J7dUituVYQCPcBGAsYHg/w284-h400/IMG_20210202_120739827.jpg" width="284" /></a> <br /></div><p>I'm going to warp it with cotton twine I've used before with my rigid heddle loom, and will need to notch it for the warp threads at regular intervals with the xacto knife you saw up there with the diagrams. </p><p>I had thought of 8 wpi, warp threads per inch, marked as you see for study, which would work for the warp, but then decided my yarn is bulky enough that it might work better with 4 wpi, half the number of warp threads, so that the spun yarn doesn't bind up and stick out and generally not want to weave very well. And since tapestry involves completely covering the warp threads, hence the term weft faced, meaning everything you see is weft, it's better if the wpi helps you do that. I can always change this if it starts not working.<br /></p><p>I've cut the loom exactly to size and shape, and will have a good bit of weaving-in of warp ends to do once this is complete, but that's fine. It's complicated enough figuring out how to weave it, without getting into four-selvedge calculations as well. And getting it to fit on the lower sections happily.</p><p>I'll be weaving up and down the actual garment direction, which will be interesting, stripes going in a different direction from the diagonals of the rest of it. Also a traditional way of weaving tapestry, where you want sharp edges to your stripes. </p><p>I realize that this sounds a bit less comprehensible than certain politicians at the moment, but just let it flow over you. All will be well. You can enjoy the spectator sport of watching me wrestling with problems of my own making, so many of them are, after all.</p><p>But before any of this can happen, I have to spin the yarn! Chop wood, carry water.<br /></p>Boudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755568855319050817.post-3806894839236401172021-01-31T08:39:00.001-08:002021-01-31T08:39:56.066-08:00Storm prep. Spinning to supply the yarn<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n32tY_H8Dzc/YBbEr9xuwsI/AAAAAAAAocI/qeI2_AgkJs0YQBV-lUhWXCNuV31EU37hwCPcBGAsYHg/s4128/IMG_20210131_095108136.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1794" data-original-width="4128" height="174" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n32tY_H8Dzc/YBbEr9xuwsI/AAAAAAAAocI/qeI2_AgkJs0YQBV-lUhWXCNuV31EU37hwCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h174/IMG_20210131_095108136.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>Left to right, the two back pieces, two pockets, front piece complete except for top shaping, next frontispiece in progress.</p><p>This has almost exhausted my supply of yarn. In fact the last two stripes on the rightmost piece I spun yesterday and immediately knitted up. So I need to spin seriously. This is good because we are about to have a nor'easter and snow, up to 18" of same and high winds. This means I'll be home. I did get my new supply of roving, so all's well there. And there's food in the house.</p><p>Friday was an online knitting group meeting, which was very nice, except for one member whom I've met a number of times in person back in the days when our groups met that way. She suddenly asked if I would accept spinning commissions! As if. I politely said, no, I really don't, which is britspeak for "in your dreams, Bunty!" and she persisted, well, then will you teach me to spin? And I continued with noooooo, wondering where she was brought up. And how much she imagined it would cost to pay a person to spindle spin enough for a garment, she clearly not grasping the number of hours it entails.<br /></p><p>But I did direct her to a couple of wonderful teachers on YouTube, Abby Franquemont and Spinning Sarah. She made no notes about it. But said maybe she could get her friend who spins to come and do a spinning retreat with her. To which I said, that sounds lovely, feeling very sorry for the friend who is about to be imposed on. And seeing that here again is a person who thinks it's too hard to actually learn stuff, would rather someone inserted it into her abilities.<br /></p><p>Why was this so ill-timed, you ask, puzzled. Well, for one thing, a knitting group where people come to work and chat, is not a business opportunity. For another, it's rude to even ask about commissions in that context, much less about teaching. That's not why I'm there. And considering my age, even less appropriate, given that I am at the stage in life where my remaining energy and creative juices are better used in my own work. </p><p>I've never accepted commissions. Not that kind of artist. I used to explain that I didn't get into art in order to take orders from other people. I work on what I need to until I don't need to any more, then I move to the next art form I need to work in. It's inner directed, about making a life not a living. No disrespect, in fact, great respect, to people who do make a living by making, but it's not my path. And a lot of people have bought my work, nice, but not essential.<br /></p><p>I've always supported my art with a day job. I like to remind people that Borodin had a fulltime job in a chemistry lab. Philip Glass was still installing appliances well after he was famous for his compositions. Leonard and Virginia Woolf had to run the Hogarth Press to support themselves. I'm not putting myself in their class, but in their frame of mind. </p><p>I don't expect someone who only knows me slightly to grasp all this, but having been gently dissuaded and still persisting, that's a bit over and above. So after I simmered down a bit, I decided it was a Father, forgive them, kind of moment. </p><p>Pro tip: please don't assume other people are there to serve you, when they're in a group that's strictly about playing. End of pro tip.</p><p>Back to spinning and getting this lovely jacket going again. It amuses me that, having spent years in my first serious art pursuits working in grayscale, largely black on white or white on black monotypes, which constituted a couple of my first exhibits, and all of my early invitations to gallery shows, with little interest in color, I'm in a different mode now. I used to be much more interested in shapes and relationships, accepting that color has meaning but not wanting to pursue it. Now it appears to have invaded my life, too funny. Ignore us, would you? Take that, missy!<br /></p>Boudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755568855319050817.post-70317034078600574202021-01-29T09:38:00.003-08:002021-01-29T09:38:37.151-08:00Spinning update<p> I need more yarn, so spinning has been happening.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dp6oJV0KlgQ/YBREoJjmRKI/AAAAAAAAoVg/8QDYciEkorsUi1sQmEj0GOc-Fheg-5bJQCPcBGAsYHg/s3844/IMG_20210129_122155431.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3844" data-original-width="3025" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dp6oJV0KlgQ/YBREoJjmRKI/AAAAAAAAoVg/8QDYciEkorsUi1sQmEj0GOc-Fheg-5bJQCPcBGAsYHg/w315-h400/IMG_20210129_122155431.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><br /><p>You'll notice the high end bobbins I use.</p><p>Next comes plying, and here are the high end tools for that process.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tUH5SYZL9fA/YBRFtVe29AI/AAAAAAAAoV4/bGYjdW27hxgU1plaG_8eeuJddezTqnWlQCPcBGAsYHg/s3127/IMG_20210129_122543771.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3127" data-original-width="2933" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tUH5SYZL9fA/YBRFtVe29AI/AAAAAAAAoV4/bGYjdW27hxgU1plaG_8eeuJddezTqnWlQCPcBGAsYHg/w375-h400/IMG_20210129_122543771.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><br /><p>The idea is that one bobbin goes in each box, the end of the yarn fed out and attached to the plying spindle. </p><p>This keeps the bobbins from dancing all over the room, and separates the two yarns until they're plied, otherwise they would get into all kinds of tangles.</p><p>There are posh versions of all this, but these work a treat.</p>Boudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755568855319050817.post-40289839435135330052021-01-25T14:17:00.000-08:002021-01-25T14:17:00.204-08:00More wonders of Peru, and Goats Magosh rules!<p>Another wonderful presentation by the Fowler Institute of UCLA. About four selvedge weaving, which if you have followed this blog a while, you'll know I experimented with very happily a while back. Won an award for a piece, too, always nice to note. </p><p>What I didn't know was the Peruvian Indian weavers were doing this wayyyyy back in about 600 AD. I learned the method from watching Sarah Swett, inspired artist, cartoonist, spinner, weaver and Nice Person.<br /></p><p>Here's a simple example of it, done by a modern weaver just to show the technique<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4puuqL32q08/YA8tgo9l0DI/AAAAAAAAoP8/_LVHJSdRHqQMnO5OUvesF5umaYhBJF2ngCPcBGAsYHg/s3120/IMG_20210125_150343188.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2088" data-original-width="3120" height="268" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4puuqL32q08/YA8tgo9l0DI/AAAAAAAAoP8/_LVHJSdRHqQMnO5OUvesF5umaYhBJF2ngCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h268/IMG_20210125_150343188.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Four selvedges means all four edges finished, no cutting off the loom.<br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v6iz9DBZb7E/YA8tnVrOg0I/AAAAAAAAoQA/a5o8OfYxSaUedhZmWgF1VznACanS5BKYwCPcBGAsYHg/s3120/IMG_20210125_150459808.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1780" data-original-width="3120" height="229" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v6iz9DBZb7E/YA8tnVrOg0I/AAAAAAAAoQA/a5o8OfYxSaUedhZmWgF1VznACanS5BKYwCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h229/IMG_20210125_150459808.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>Two selvedges is what we are used to seeing in other cultures, where lengths of fabric are woven, then cut to purpose. The Peruvian weaving was done to purpose, already the correct size and shape for the garment when it came off the loom.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y8P7ykfKyp8/YA8tZ9mSv6I/AAAAAAAAoP4/AFxqAopJGLYakNzJIbYOAcseyjQLvWypgCPcBGAsYHg/s4160/IMG_20210125_150825373.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y8P7ykfKyp8/YA8tZ9mSv6I/AAAAAAAAoP4/AFxqAopJGLYakNzJIbYOAcseyjQLvWypgCPcBGAsYHg/w300-h400/IMG_20210125_150825373.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p>Here are some beautiful examples of four selvedge netting, amazing works.This presentation will be available for you to watch on the Fowler Institute website, as soon as they load it, and I really recommend you take a look, if you are interested in the history and art of textiles. It's only about half an hour long.</p><p>And near the beginning they reference Ed Franquemont. I promptly asked if he was connected with Abby Franquemont, whose book Respect the Spindle,</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L5cwk_jGl5w/YA9B6pPYQeI/AAAAAAAAoRU/5AxlMBIB9TU9-ks0FO5z5Jvwsrv4qddsACPcBGAsYHg/s3624/IMG_20210125_170854178.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3624" height="345" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L5cwk_jGl5w/YA9B6pPYQeI/AAAAAAAAoRU/5AxlMBIB9TU9-ks0FO5z5Jvwsrv4qddsACPcBGAsYHg/w400-h345/IMG_20210125_170854178.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>I've talked about in here, just a brilliant account of spindle spinning and its history. Turns out he was an anthropologist and was her dad!<br /></p><p>My Covid brain, which already let me down in the context of pumpkin bread, for which see https://fieldfen.blogspot.com, let me down here again. </p><p>I completely forgot that the Fowler Institute is based at UCLA, and when they said noon, I was all ready, ate lunch early so as not to have to wrangle food and laptop. Checked in, and it said wait till they start, 3 p.m. est....aaaaahh. Noon pacific time. Fine. Came back then, and it was wonderful.</p><p>Then in today's mail, reinforcements arrived on the roving front, to continue my work on the jacket. Look at this array of color and texture! all this came out of three little lunchbags, I think they must have a packing machine..such pleasure in my future. Goats Magosh comes through for me again.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-07M0Q93h_gk/YA8x3rDgiVI/AAAAAAAAoQc/20dLqhJrjb0lsqjyQCUbiE5Gk8qliwHYwCPcBGAsYHg/s2861/IMG_20210125_155902032.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2706" data-original-width="2861" height="379" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-07M0Q93h_gk/YA8x3rDgiVI/AAAAAAAAoQc/20dLqhJrjb0lsqjyQCUbiE5Gk8qliwHYwCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h379/IMG_20210125_155902032.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Happy spinner here!<br />Boudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755568855319050817.post-39331740369312971852021-01-24T12:32:00.004-08:002021-01-24T12:32:40.778-08:00Color and relationships<p> One of the great side effects of a long project involving fiber in various different stages of its existence is the consideration of color and its relation to other colors. This combed top is in a color I truly don't like at all. It's flattered by the camera, but in real life it's a lot deader and gloomier than here.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Mly-hCqULZs/YA3AlFzVR7I/AAAAAAAAoM4/dFvNDSdqvcsAncI0knnxiNsO6ApTDgLqgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_20210124_134103036.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1612" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Mly-hCqULZs/YA3AlFzVR7I/AAAAAAAAoM4/dFvNDSdqvcsAncI0knnxiNsO6ApTDgLqgCLcBGAsYHQ/w315-h400/IMG_20210124_134103036.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><div><br /></div><p>However, as you know, color is not an absolute. It creates quite different perception in the viewer according to what's next to it. There's a music in colors, where they change one another. That's why that paint sample in the store looks really different on your own wall at home, in relation to your other colors and furniture.<br /></p><p>If you ever get the chance to see this book, here's a pic of the front cover of a cheap paperback version of Josef Albers classic Interaction of Color, you'll really get a lot out of it. If you're a stitcher or a knitter or a spinner or a weaver or a painter, you'll get such depth of knowledge from studying it even briefly. You might be able to find it cheaply second hand.<br /></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PmjLhCA8ZrY/YA3Vo-23HhI/AAAAAAAAoNc/nE5sFtCqO2wiG0-Sekx2En8oy1N81twlgCPcBGAsYHg/s3645/IMG_20210124_151434499.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3645" data-original-width="2634" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PmjLhCA8ZrY/YA3Vo-23HhI/AAAAAAAAoNc/nE5sFtCqO2wiG0-Sekx2En8oy1N81twlgCPcBGAsYHg/w290-h400/IMG_20210124_151434499.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><p>His point is that colors appear to change depending on their nearest
neighbors. See those two little squares, how different they look? next to
different colors. They're exactly the same colors if you observe them by
coordinates, hue, luminosity, and so on, never mind the technicalities.
But you see how they change to the eye? Even in this inaccurate medium with a mediocre camera and a mediocre paperback image, you can clearly see it.<br /></p><div>You can take advantage of this fact by putting a color you don't like along with a different one and observing the resulting effect. Here I plied the color I don't like with a warm dark reddish brown yarn single, and it made a lovely warm inviting tweedy effect, just by twining alongside a different color.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NriKRYApbww/YA3AjkrGr6I/AAAAAAAAoMw/n2x6uEQ89WAID5Fd48QZFB2nY8PD2ytwQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_20210124_134119945.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1957" data-original-width="2048" height="383" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NriKRYApbww/YA3AjkrGr6I/AAAAAAAAoMw/n2x6uEQ89WAID5Fd48QZFB2nY8PD2ytwQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h383/IMG_20210124_134119945.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> </div><div>Transformed. And ready to work nicely with other colors as we proceed. Here's the left front up to now, and the two woven pockets ready to take their places eventually, wherever they work best. See how that new yarnball is warming up the whole area around it?<br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h_8UwRUes6g/YA3AlAgoVDI/AAAAAAAAoM0/13qz6wPDlqUf-0q53V7M7_NqGf6HPcWbACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_20210124_134150708.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1852" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h_8UwRUes6g/YA3AlAgoVDI/AAAAAAAAoM0/13qz6wPDlqUf-0q53V7M7_NqGf6HPcWbACLcBGAsYHQ/w361-h400/IMG_20210124_134150708.jpg" width="361" /></a></div> </div><div>One of the best art teachers I ever had used to set the task of choosing a color you don't like then incorporating it into a painting in such a way that you could enjoy seeing it.</div><div>Sometimes it's not about what the artist wants. It's about what the artwork wants. That's always a surprising statement when you make it to a young artist, as I have, when he said well I would always avoid colors I don't like anyway. He agreed to think about it, anyway, after he got over his surprise at learning that the artist is only the conduit, not the boss, of the art!</div><div><br /></div><div>And in winter we all experience the sight of snowflakes looking dark grey as they fall down against the sky, then suddenly white when they pass the dark colors of the buildings on the way to the ground. Same phenomenon at work.</div><div><br /></div><div>All that said, I expect you realize at this point just how much thinking and considering is going into this jacket I'm making. Nothing is random, or guesswork. Many, many decision points, all very satisfying and joyful. No hurry. What the work needs, it will get.</div><div> </div><div>This is one reason we should fight to keep art in our schools as a regular offering. It's about learning to see and decide and weigh options, and go for it. Always a good set of skills for anyone, at any age! Now I'll get off my hobbyhorse and go back to knitting..<br /></div><div> <br /></div><div></div><div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>Boudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755568855319050817.post-29374406076922714762021-01-22T11:37:00.001-08:002021-01-22T11:37:38.171-08:00Jacket left front in progress<p>Here we are with the jacket, the left front. Or maybe the right, I'll decide soon before I start shaping.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7HeVL6TxjZc/YAsoqj4Jl3I/AAAAAAAAoG8/KLLjy9XVmKo-SJMeGt3iTgbcO2ITjGC4QCPcBGAsYHg/s2956/original_9ac5c57e-1111-4964-9986-dbd8877ff8da_IMG_20210122_142712438.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2493" data-original-width="2956" height="338" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7HeVL6TxjZc/YAsoqj4Jl3I/AAAAAAAAoG8/KLLjy9XVmKo-SJMeGt3iTgbcO2ITjGC4QCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h338/original_9ac5c57e-1111-4964-9986-dbd8877ff8da_IMG_20210122_142712438.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>The first section is my last couple of days of spinning and plying. It takes about four times as long to spin as to knit. </p><p>The first section is better spun than the next, which is pretty chunky. Moving along.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Boudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755568855319050817.post-11633531455040860342021-01-18T19:14:00.001-08:002021-01-18T19:14:26.380-08:00The back progresses<p>Here's the back, two pieces, steamed, not yet joined together, until I'm sure I like the way they are together. There are other options, but for now I'm liking this one.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pz--HiLlSr4/YAZN5THZ5fI/AAAAAAAAn84/zsJU67hqbcAHLIO63Jq5ZIH_TLFWFxkIQCPcBGAsYHg/s3393/IMG_20210118_145151818_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3393" data-original-width="2618" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pz--HiLlSr4/YAZN5THZ5fI/AAAAAAAAn84/zsJU67hqbcAHLIO63Jq5ZIH_TLFWFxkIQCPcBGAsYHg/w309-h400/IMG_20210118_145151818_HDR.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And, since my stock of roving is running lower now, I've ordered three more little bags of it. I get this direct from Goats Magosh Etsy shop, and it's fun to look there and see the familiar colors and kinds displayed. I'm getting the ends of them, the only way this project will be in my budget. And it's even more fun to have all the different types of roving to work on.</div><p>It occurs to me now that I can identify them from the Etsy shop, since they're labeled by type and name there. Must do that. </p><p>And I have to get spinning now, since I've knitted up most of the yarn I've made up to now. I did say this was a big project, didn't?<br /></p>Boudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755568855319050817.post-65836431185023806872021-01-17T14:02:00.001-08:002021-01-17T14:02:20.752-08:00Pre ceramic textiles of Peru, 7000 BC and later<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">I just watched a wonderful Zoom presentation of the Hajji Baba Club, about early textiles using indigo, in ancient Peru. <br /></div><p style="text-align: left;">I
wondered what ceramics had to do with textiles, and eventually learned
that, because there were no ceramics at that period, dyeing with ochers
and indigo was most common, since without solid containers which could stand up to heat, to use as vats, it
was not possible to do the natural dyeing which came in after the
ceramic container was introduced. Interestingly, it would have been
much easier than indigo dyeing, which needed several processes, and for
which the chemistry is more complex.</p><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5QaHyciQoW8/YASs_CkH5jI/AAAAAAAAn6M/qgw2H0TGkgwkkbzTxF99UaDdlub2K2SlgCPcBGAsYHg/s3120/IMG_20210117_155952855.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1925" data-original-width="3120" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5QaHyciQoW8/YASs_CkH5jI/AAAAAAAAn6M/qgw2H0TGkgwkkbzTxF99UaDdlub2K2SlgCPcBGAsYHg/s320/IMG_20210117_155952855.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>This is one plant source of indigo, which also happens to be an edible potato plant, an all purpose item of vegetation. I recognize the blossom shape from my own potato growing experiments in containers.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KXVkzEp6wlQ/YASs_EWubxI/AAAAAAAAn6M/k1-23VjilOQ3PGouLEivlMXaqr8xxJlzgCPcBGAsYHg/s3049/IMG_20210117_155707209.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2094" data-original-width="3049" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KXVkzEp6wlQ/YASs_EWubxI/AAAAAAAAn6M/k1-23VjilOQ3PGouLEivlMXaqr8xxJlzgCPcBGAsYHg/s320/IMG_20210117_155707209.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Because indigo dyed yarn or fabric changes color after it's lifted from
the dye, seemingly magical as the colors change and end up blue, it was
considered sacred, and was restricted in its use. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uGQVU79SFsE/YASs_NJzfCI/AAAAAAAAn6M/yvRv7boP8hUhEi7cTggDOy1z3ZvRHXlUgCPcBGAsYHg/s3055/IMG_20210117_155528443.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2054" data-original-width="3055" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uGQVU79SFsE/YASs_NJzfCI/AAAAAAAAn6M/yvRv7boP8hUhEi7cTggDOy1z3ZvRHXlUgCPcBGAsYHg/s320/IMG_20210117_155528443.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>These experiments in using ocher dye were done by the presenter, and are remarkably similar to my own kitchen dyeing, except that I use natural plant material and flowers. He used potash as a mordant, as I do nowadays.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t1uEfxzvBg0/YASs_LQRDgI/AAAAAAAAn6M/2ZV4t_OmjbIkLRrA8vau0eU4EpKTMFA3ACPcBGAsYHg/s3108/IMG_20210117_155451372.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1921" data-original-width="3108" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t1uEfxzvBg0/YASs_LQRDgI/AAAAAAAAn6M/2ZV4t_OmjbIkLRrA8vau0eU4EpKTMFA3ACPcBGAsYHg/s320/IMG_20210117_155451372.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JKKXWUIJaSs/YASs_Cs-jbI/AAAAAAAAn6M/5e3hN7RU-dUA_nvRA-RpeOqiMA10JAh2wCPcBGAsYHg/s3047/IMG_20210117_155355146.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1995" data-original-width="3047" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JKKXWUIJaSs/YASs_Cs-jbI/AAAAAAAAn6M/5e3hN7RU-dUA_nvRA-RpeOqiMA10JAh2wCPcBGAsYHg/s320/IMG_20210117_155355146.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>They also used milkweed bast for fiber production, and anyone who has
watched Sarah Swett's adventures in milkweed where she's done exactly
that, then spun and wove it, will be as riveted as I was by this
historical confirmation. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nyMMSeJOaEg/YASs_H1grOI/AAAAAAAAn6M/Grg-9zNtwN01XCpi2o2jtaZUygAKl0-pgCPcBGAsYHg/s3049/IMG_20210117_155240741.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1784" data-original-width="3120" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3w4vyP5FLrU/YASs_IUrvDI/AAAAAAAAn6M/3KyuhUDMGpsUsjYGsNJj-j2PDMZ6nt5wgCPcBGAsYHg/s320/IMG_20210117_155315964.jpg" width="320" /><span> </span><img border="0" data-original-height="2324" data-original-width="3049" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nyMMSeJOaEg/YASs_H1grOI/AAAAAAAAn6M/Grg-9zNtwN01XCpi2o2jtaZUygAKl0-pgCPcBGAsYHg/s320/IMG_20210117_155240741.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>The fragments of textiles have been recovered from a sacred site, about which I have some feelings, even if history is being served, and involved burials, also possible propitiatory offerings. There were some objects, probably funerary, which involved wrappings, and look startlingly like modern avant garde fiber craft work.</p><p>The twining and weaving in general was highly skilled, and
mindblowingly complex, multiple warps, using a frame loom, handbuilt, the toba loom.
I'm looking to see if it's a backstrap affair. I asked questions about
this, and about what we know of the spinners, but lost my signal before
they were into the q and a, so I'll have to pursue that myself. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GQlRfquzuOA/YASs_J3EpNI/AAAAAAAAn6M/fojsJpCc9uMe5VBfpGPA5OeAMheE5AIRACPcBGAsYHg/s3055/IMG_20210117_155148183.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2149" data-original-width="3055" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GQlRfquzuOA/YASs_J3EpNI/AAAAAAAAn6M/fojsJpCc9uMe5VBfpGPA5OeAMheE5AIRACPcBGAsYHg/s320/IMG_20210117_155148183.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ffemtYHnP1w/YASs_DOUtJI/AAAAAAAAn6M/IaO2UAnWX6g-qQtUA7cdi0gqoLcpvXqFQCPcBGAsYHg/s3120/IMG_20210117_150306407.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1952" data-original-width="3120" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ffemtYHnP1w/YASs_DOUtJI/AAAAAAAAn6M/IaO2UAnWX6g-qQtUA7cdi0gqoLcpvXqFQCPcBGAsYHg/s320/IMG_20210117_150306407.jpg" width="320" /></a> <br /></div><p>They were recording the presentation, which is this one, above, Dr, Jeffrey C. Splitstoser, so it may be possible to find it again. I think I'll give it a try. They had viewers from all over the world, every continent, very exciting stuff.</p><p>If you are interested in history of textiles, natural dyeing, weaving, spinning (the presenter knew all about z and s spinning and pointed it out in the twine they used) you will really like this. If I can find a link, I'll let you know about it.<br /></p><p>I missed some bits, because friend next door was coming and going, doing
work on my tire pressures and is also trying to improve his wifi signal
which he shares with me, so there were interruptions which I had to
attend to, he's doing me favors! So maybe I can fill in the missing
bits if I can find the recording on line and if it's available.</p>Boudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755568855319050817.post-85175249671806961302021-01-12T16:12:00.006-08:002021-01-12T16:12:47.991-08:00Second half of the back in progress<p> And now you can see better what I'm doing. This is the second part of the back. Yet to come are two fronts and two sleeves and a load of spinning and plying before I can get to knitting<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_yd33Ojx-6I/X_45ZjR7I7I/AAAAAAAAntI/LBHmxdj_oy82kD1ivNBAP1mrwGZEle12QCPcBGAsYHg/s2793/IMG_20210112_190005904.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2793" data-original-width="2116" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_yd33Ojx-6I/X_45ZjR7I7I/AAAAAAAAntI/LBHmxdj_oy82kD1ivNBAP1mrwGZEle12QCPcBGAsYHg/w304-h400/IMG_20210112_190005904.jpg" width="304" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Since I'm still waiting on news of the car, I've been busy at home trying not to think about it. A bit more knitting today. Here's how the two sides will make chevrons. I think I like the upward points rather than the other way up, more cheerful. The way they seem to link evenly is a bonus, not planned, but a function of the size of yarn ball I've been making.<br /></div>Boudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755568855319050817.post-49588157013247262882021-01-11T19:08:00.001-08:002021-01-11T19:08:11.943-08:00Anniversary of the Great Winnowing, suggestions for dog hair<p> This is the full extent of my art materials now, since the Great Winnowing of January 2020, those innocent days before lockdown.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3UMkGgNE7I4/X_yWwtrYNwI/AAAAAAAAnqk/HTI81X2d2iE-8iYx-2MGylEcaO2lscfegCPcBGAsYHg/s3264/IMG_20210111_130052202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3UMkGgNE7I4/X_yWwtrYNwI/AAAAAAAAnqk/HTI81X2d2iE-8iYx-2MGylEcaO2lscfegCPcBGAsYHg/w300-h400/IMG_20210111_130052202.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p>And here's the now empty and echoing art studio on the top floor.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ur47CZishMk/X_yWwofGiDI/AAAAAAAAnqk/0IPQl-1mw2A59ASQyzHzw8yOEsXEQUvMwCPcBGAsYHg/s3188/IMG_20210111_130003371.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3188" data-original-width="2448" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ur47CZishMk/X_yWwofGiDI/AAAAAAAAnqk/0IPQl-1mw2A59ASQyzHzw8yOEsXEQUvMwCPcBGAsYHg/w308-h400/IMG_20210111_130003371.jpg" width="308" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7wWoKgrIOtI/X_yWwkXD89I/AAAAAAAAnqk/wSPM06UaxjAtarvI-9x_KXZ4FbXhEnEIgCPcBGAsYHg/s3264/IMG_20210111_130007480.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7wWoKgrIOtI/X_yWwkXD89I/AAAAAAAAnqk/wSPM06UaxjAtarvI-9x_KXZ4FbXhEnEIgCPcBGAsYHg/w300-h400/IMG_20210111_130007480.jpg" width="300" /></a></div>I have not missed a single item from the Winnowing, which benefited a lot of artists and students and the recycle, and some neighbors. Only one tiny bag needed to be tossed in the garbage.<br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uTvCb6V2yDY/X_x1FIv7WHI/AAAAAAAAnpM/mTkJkLwTylkKIK-0Tpwdi6kYxBZck-yCACPcBGAsYHg/s2505/IMG_20210111_105306786.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2505" data-original-width="1733" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uTvCb6V2yDY/X_x1FIv7WHI/AAAAAAAAnpM/mTkJkLwTylkKIK-0Tpwdi6kYxBZck-yCACPcBGAsYHg/w276-h400/IMG_20210111_105306786.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><p>And. different subject, here's the pin I made last Spring from cashmere goat fiber given by Quinn. I ended up spinning, crocheting and felting to make this nest with eggs. At the time I asked for and got a lot of interesting ideas from blogistas, which went into my finally deciding to make this.</p><p>Today I was offered a bag of hair from a beloved Belgian Malinois who died in early 2020. Probably different texture, and I think may be mixed with another fiber in order to spin. I will get maybe a couple of yards of yarn from it. What I'm asking for is ideas on what to create from it as a possible gift to the owner. She might like a small memento of her much missed companion. I can spin, weave, crochet, knit, felt, whatever works. </p><p>So would you come through again? If you also read Field and Fen, you'll see this in there. But since some people read only one of my two blogs, I thought I'd for once repeat myself, unusual for me, in order to catch as much input as I can. Thank you!<br /></p>Boudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755568855319050817.post-33538518341591439672021-01-10T11:06:00.001-08:002021-01-10T11:06:58.161-08:00Meanwhile, back at the ranch..<p> Back to the knitted and woven and spun and plied jacket. I made a second pocket here<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2dMB6d-AGkM/X_kb6CzUpxI/AAAAAAAAncI/weEavj4k2Sw-SXGTmm7aVRLpkp34CkrEACPcBGAsYHg/s2372/IMG_20210108_212845424.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2225" data-original-width="2372" height="375" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2dMB6d-AGkM/X_kb6CzUpxI/AAAAAAAAncI/weEavj4k2Sw-SXGTmm7aVRLpkp34CkrEACPcBGAsYHg/w400-h375/IMG_20210108_212845424.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>Using earlier yarn than I did for the other pocket. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zgvEbylAy2s/X_kb6J39XgI/AAAAAAAAncI/j6KSHcNG_nUFnb0wYLie2zMAlTmllLQpACPcBGAsYHg/s2239/IMG_20210108_215632247.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2105" data-original-width="2239" height="376" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zgvEbylAy2s/X_kb6J39XgI/AAAAAAAAncI/j6KSHcNG_nUFnb0wYLie2zMAlTmllLQpACPcBGAsYHg/w400-h376/IMG_20210108_215632247.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>I like very much the way the changing colors create a design</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m6jPhkU8OLM/X_nVHDSckVI/AAAAAAAAndM/vZ3IxfODpdsfbFHu6B0H-7Wcay_Hifw5wCPcBGAsYHg/s2455/IMG_20210109_105915860.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2455" data-original-width="2435" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m6jPhkU8OLM/X_nVHDSckVI/AAAAAAAAndM/vZ3IxfODpdsfbFHu6B0H-7Wcay_Hifw5wCPcBGAsYHg/w396-h400/IMG_20210109_105915860.jpg" width="396" /></a></div><p>And here's the second pocket</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PodgQvM340M/X_nVMf_QXMI/AAAAAAAAndQ/o_CL44CQHO4wdQCEM0Z4AL-1tOdM91eBwCPcBGAsYHg/s3250/IMG_20210109_110022979.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2146" data-original-width="3250" height="264" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PodgQvM340M/X_nVMf_QXMI/AAAAAAAAndQ/o_CL44CQHO4wdQCEM0Z4AL-1tOdM91eBwCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h264/IMG_20210109_110022979.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>Remember I said that my spinning has improved, the yarn finer and more consistent, and it might show up a bit as I progress with producing yarn for the jacket? Here's a case in point. The two pockets. On the left earlier, chunkier, yarn, and on the right later, finer, more consistent yarn, the first pocket I made. I may add a row of crochet to the right hand pocket if the difference in size bothers me enough. Right now it's just a useful observation.</p><p>This is all very well, you say, yes, pockets, but where's the jacket you're going to attach them to, huh, huh? Well, here's one half of the back, completed, steamed and looking pretty happy.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RXcG1FXQbdo/X_s0d8ewKRI/AAAAAAAAnlw/YY5F_v06iAUfLnfQDhN9kVDKF6nUItqTACPcBGAsYHg/s3233/IMG_20210110_120419059.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3233" data-original-width="1367" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RXcG1FXQbdo/X_s0d8ewKRI/AAAAAAAAnlw/YY5F_v06iAUfLnfQDhN9kVDKF6nUItqTACPcBGAsYHg/w168-h400/IMG_20210110_120419059.jpg" width="168" /></a></div><p>Well, yes, half of the back, big deal. Where's the rest of the jacket, then?</p><p>Well, some of it's here</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9C96uA-hOgg/X_nVUQ4_p-I/AAAAAAAAndU/z2Dej5d_GjMYtMYKH_uBF2YjsYiGeurGACPcBGAsYHg/s3770/IMG_20210109_110414818.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2585" data-original-width="3770" height="274" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9C96uA-hOgg/X_nVUQ4_p-I/AAAAAAAAndU/z2Dej5d_GjMYtMYKH_uBF2YjsYiGeurGACPcBGAsYHg/w400-h274/IMG_20210109_110414818.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>And some of it's here</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-THHnwbkgYgk/X_nVUcD3J7I/AAAAAAAAndU/ILhn5VNdFHIfICUd-RAHD_e_KprPw5aSQCPcBGAsYHg/s3652/IMG_20210109_110459846.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2767" data-original-width="3652" height="303" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-THHnwbkgYgk/X_nVUcD3J7I/AAAAAAAAndU/ILhn5VNdFHIfICUd-RAHD_e_KprPw5aSQCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h303/IMG_20210109_110459846.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p> And I may have to order more fiber. Fortunately there's no deadline on this, unless you count wanting to wear it before the weather gets hot again.</p><p>This is like showing the window frames for the house that's still a heap of timber next to a hole in the ground, but that's fiiiiine.</p><p>I can't tell you how happy I am making this endless project. When I get tired of rolagging, I spin, and when I get tired of spinning, I ply. Then knit. By then I'm ready to make rolags again. I've learned so much about the yarn and the skills and myself in this process.</p><p>And there's always that stitched Robe waiting in the wings for her chance to work again.<br /></p>Boudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755568855319050817.post-49536576142747157812021-01-09T15:21:00.000-08:002021-01-09T15:21:03.079-08:00Weavers, embroiderers, beaders of Mindanao<p> This was the presentation I mentioned to you a few days ago. I put up the link to it and another on rug medallion design last week, not knowing then that it was going to be a great antidote, peace, art, people living together and making beauty, to the ugliness we witnessed a few days ago, and are still dealing with.</p><p>The rug presentation was okay, very dry, terms not explained to the uninitiated, and largely a sales promotion for the presenter's book, which is no doubt very good. However, the real treat was the other one, about the groups of people in the Philippines, on Mindanao, in the mountains.<br /></p><p>If you didn't remember to get there, they did record it and it might be possible to catch up on it, anyway, here's the introductory screen to help you do that. The introducers were a bit taken aback at the sheer size of the audience, saying that it was huge, from every continent. And I'd say it lived up to the audience.</p><p>It was respectful, helpful, and very understanding of the sophistication of the work produced by the women of this area, all making and wearing their own one of a kind clothing, and selling amazing artworks produced from simple looms. You'll see backstrap looms in action, creating complex and wonderful designs, enormous pieces of fabric. Some of the early fabric was abaca, the same fiber I use in handmade paper, from the banana-adjacent plant.</p><p> Men process the fiber, a lengthy hand done task, and produce filament that can be warped on a loom and dyed with the black dye used for their designs. They still have to observe the condition of the filament as they work, though, since a long dry spell means a pause in weaving, since the abaca can break if stressed when dried out. They also use cotton fabric for embroidering and beading.<br /></p><p>I took just a few shots, not very good image on my screen, but they did their best. Where you see beading, it's often hand carved mother of pearl, individually created, and many of them crowded into the tops, where the shape is simple and the beauty is in the weaving and stitching, including embroidery and applique, and the beading. Men's clothing is also colorful, embroidered and beaded.<br /></p><p>Where you see a name and an old person with the presenter, she's the weaver, great artists, some of whom have died in the last couple of years, very aged and still working in the traditional designs of millennia. The designs feature people as well as natural objects, trees, stars, mountains, eagles, all with meaning and worked and worn with respect and a spiritual connection to the tradition. </p><p>The family groups are dressed in their best for the occasion, women wearing the garments they made and designed, within the traditional motifs but with their own interpretation. <br /></p><p>In the pictures of work on the loom, you can see the sheer size of the pieces they make, with the backstrap loom, showing it's the weaver, not the complications of the loom, that make the work.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FUXW_YlEKKE/X_oxIRBxqEI/AAAAAAAAnh0/13aa7Ml8l8A-hPvCL3fZr0QQrLVbM03PACPcBGAsYHg/s2354/IMG_20210109_151434673.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1337" data-original-width="2354" height="228" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FUXW_YlEKKE/X_oxIRBxqEI/AAAAAAAAnh0/13aa7Ml8l8A-hPvCL3fZr0QQrLVbM03PACPcBGAsYHg/w400-h228/IMG_20210109_151434673.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oCx4ZKPt9zM/X_oyS9ejBiI/AAAAAAAAniY/kaWVA67_FPEM7Clo6wiiENuZdmwQCRFYgCPcBGAsYHg/s2255/IMG_20210109_150636454.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1540" data-original-width="2255" height="274" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oCx4ZKPt9zM/X_oyS9ejBiI/AAAAAAAAniY/kaWVA67_FPEM7Clo6wiiENuZdmwQCRFYgCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h274/IMG_20210109_150636454.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p> It was an hour of restoration for this viewer, and I'm very glad I remembered and watched it. I hope some of you blogistas did, too. I know some people were planning on it and I hope the events of the week in the US didn't drive it out of your memory bank.<br /></p>Boudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755568855319050817.post-68179088001682441752021-01-07T04:15:00.001-08:002021-01-07T04:15:25.331-08:00Art saving us again<p> Yesterday while I was listening to the horrific news from Washington, I did fiber prep.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_Elh1qE2JeY/X_b66OV2f1I/AAAAAAAAnaU/D9f9jh330oUWXaB6u1-xzTl4g0cJTgOGQCPcBGAsYHg/s3172/IMG_20210107_070910010.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3172" data-original-width="2255" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_Elh1qE2JeY/X_b66OV2f1I/AAAAAAAAnaU/D9f9jh330oUWXaB6u1-xzTl4g0cJTgOGQCPcBGAsYHg/w284-h400/IMG_20210107_070910010.jpg" width="284" /></a></div><p> This work, making fauxlags from silk combed top, kept me on an even keel. Silky handling, lovely fiber, great antidote to stress.</p>Boudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755568855319050817.post-76828604258149027632021-01-03T11:33:00.001-08:002021-01-03T11:33:24.616-08:00I finally got weaving<p> Foreword: If you came in in search of the information about next Saturday's museum presentations, scroll down to the previous post. It's all there.</p><p> Meanwhile, in the midst of spinning and plying and looking at Rebecca Mezoff's tapestry weaving book, I got thinking about pockets for the jacket I'm making. At first I had thought of diagonal knitted ones. But I also wondered about some weaving element.</p><p> Rebecca does a lot of tiny works, as a form of note taking, like a knitter doing swatching. So I thought about that, then decided no, I wanted to use the beloved potholder loom. <br /></p><p>This is the one that everyone says Oh I had one of those when I was a kid, made my Mom a potholder, I wonder what happened to the loom..and it's really not just for kids. It's a very nice little tool, particularly if you buy this kind, made in America with real metal with properly designed pegs. I've made long pieces by crocheting together a series of squares. And you're not stuck with squares. You can weave triangles or rectangles within the size of the loom. Nora will show you how. But here I wanted a square.<br /></p><p>I used my trusty Tunisian crochet hook as a weaving hook, works a treat<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5fJqlc2nneg/X_ISHiq4VnI/AAAAAAAAnTA/mF6m6XQvr9g1_0KwNMfnHjdnsT4YjiEvgCPcBGAsYHg/s2545/IMG_20210103_121049666.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2545" data-original-width="2082" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5fJqlc2nneg/X_ISHiq4VnI/AAAAAAAAnTA/mF6m6XQvr9g1_0KwNMfnHjdnsT4YjiEvgCPcBGAsYHg/w328-h400/IMG_20210103_121049666.jpg" width="328" /></a></div><p>I had to go back to Norah Crone Findlay for a reminder on how to get started warping the loom. This is a lovely paperback, which I think I've recommended before. She specializes in very clear useful instructions and photographs. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bwTb-DXLsvI/X_ISHsriywI/AAAAAAAAnTA/JtIWDtF3Ug49EB4KdxKIGp_Q-BUQnb17wCPcBGAsYHg/s2880/IMG_20210103_131218253.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="2165" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bwTb-DXLsvI/X_ISHsriywI/AAAAAAAAnTA/JtIWDtF3Ug49EB4KdxKIGp_Q-BUQnb17wCPcBGAsYHg/w301-h400/IMG_20210103_131218253.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><p>She also has a YouTube channel from which I learned how to use paper
clips to make a four selvedge weaving, which ended up being a purchase
award piece at a regional show shortly after, and is now hanging in some
elected bigwig's office, it being in a public art collection. So
there's that. Here's me, at the gallery, looking gormless, and getting the official word that Red Building, tapestry, woven in embroidery floss, four selvedge, had been selected.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HJExTK7Z3KU/X_IW_3WQzoI/AAAAAAAAnTY/HJJJh4tr2PUGMSZyZmi9nHJJ2-S3cCzEACPcBGAsYHg/s3264/IMG_20190603_113946752.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HJExTK7Z3KU/X_IW_3WQzoI/AAAAAAAAnTY/HJJJh4tr2PUGMSZyZmi9nHJJ2-S3cCzEACPcBGAsYHg/w400-h300/IMG_20190603_113946752.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>Back to the potholder loom: here's how you go<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OOzBYaqUDSM/X_ISHlXyfaI/AAAAAAAAnTA/hVgoJXwQN3Y8iBmiMjSSZVEh5GgeCQdkwCPcBGAsYHg/s2921/IMG_20210103_131247934.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2921" data-original-width="2370" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OOzBYaqUDSM/X_ISHlXyfaI/AAAAAAAAnTA/hVgoJXwQN3Y8iBmiMjSSZVEh5GgeCQdkwCPcBGAsYHg/w325-h400/IMG_20210103_131247934.jpg" width="325" /></a></div><p>And then, people think, well, this is all very well, but with yarn looped around on all four sides, how do you get the weaving off and finished? It's like a crochet stitch, just lift up the first two loops, slide one over the other, pick up another, all the way round till you reach the starting point again. When I do the corners, I loop twice, because there's a bit of slack where the yarn turned the corner.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YhkEVKHAo8M/X_ISHrb2ZVI/AAAAAAAAnTA/ati32QxuDFgRovkGh0KZut7-Avxyh33DwCPcBGAsYHg/s3202/IMG_20210103_131314652.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2041" data-original-width="3202" height="255" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YhkEVKHAo8M/X_ISHrb2ZVI/AAAAAAAAnTA/ati32QxuDFgRovkGh0KZut7-Avxyh33DwCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h255/IMG_20210103_131314652.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>And here's the pocket, steam pressed and looking okay, for an hour's work from thinking about it to looking for the iron</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_meOitJ8v3o/X_ISHkBc8dI/AAAAAAAAnTA/9CWsaboNaCoXRa4oIM_pVD4fTusm9XEvwCPcBGAsYHg/s2555/IMG_20210103_130925998.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2555" data-original-width="2339" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_meOitJ8v3o/X_ISHkBc8dI/AAAAAAAAnTA/9CWsaboNaCoXRa4oIM_pVD4fTusm9XEvwCPcBGAsYHg/w366-h400/IMG_20210103_130925998.jpg" width="366" /></a></div><p>You can see how the yarn bloomed nicely and filled in all the gaps you saw on the loom. I think I'll probably make another pocket, and line them so they don't sag in use.</p><p>Which will reintroduce stitching into my life, about time.<br /></p><p><br /></p>Boudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755568855319050817.post-39058125572271427782021-01-02T16:36:00.001-08:002021-01-02T16:36:56.920-08:00Early alert for two great online presentations next Saturday, January 9<p>Two wonderful textile programs are free for the registering. Bear with the sudden changes in font and layout, I'm cutting and pasting from information sent by the Princeton Rug Society. The great rug event I reported on a while back is the caliber of these, I think will be well worth checking out. For me the Medallion Carpets will be on at 1 p.m. next Saturday, followed at 2 p.m. by the Woven Dreams program. So you can get both, I hope. If the links are not live for you, you may have to cut and paste. I've signed up for both, and received an acknowledgment and link.<br /></p><p>Here they are courtesy of email:<br /></p><div class="I_52qC D_FY W_6D6F" data-test-id="message-view-body"><div class="msg-body P_wpofO mq_AS" data-test-id="message-view-body-content"><div class="jb_0 X_6MGW N_6Fd5"><div><div id="yiv4150057174"><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="yiv4150057174Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Remember
the two for one movies of old? This is what Saturday Jan. 9 will feel
like when you watch the two programs from the two coasts. Just don't mix
up the times. Here is the East Coast (</span><span class="yiv4150057174Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">New England Rug Society) </span><span class="yiv4150057174Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">info that comes first:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="yiv4150057174Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br /><span class="yiv4150057174Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><div class="img-preview-wrapper"><img class="preview" height="400" id="yiv4150057174d13bed6b-b59a-4c96-bd7a-4ad988fdb313" src="https://apis.mail.yahoo.com/ws/v3/mailboxes/@.id==VjN-CJZX-_hi6yEYYF__33ZT8vGixhPpOJ25htJcmASlUCXgaB6TUh-ZJygiHqSvHeP3BmBxuc2UTjmHlmQVvjcwMQ/messages/@.id==AMEsztIvGvYoX_CsJQoteGH-Lu4/content/parts/@.id==2.2/thumbnail?appid=YMailNorrin&downloadWhenThumbnailFails=true&pid=2.2" width="353" /><span class="img-dl-btn" style="left: 337px; opacity: 0.0001; top: 490px;"></span></div></span><br /><br />--><span class="yiv4150057174Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>REMINDER: Saturday, January 9, 2021<span class="yiv4150057174Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 1 PM </span><span class="yiv4150057174Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Eastern</span><span class="yiv4150057174Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"> Time<br /><span class="yiv4150057174Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Early Persian Medallion Carpets and Their Collectible Derivatives<br /> <span class="yiv4150057174Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span class="yiv4150057174Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">P.R.J. (“Jim”) Ford</span><span class="yiv4150057174Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="yiv4150057174Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="yiv4150057174Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Register here:</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="yiv4150057174Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5416084119424/WN_IfXTtbL5RMC9DYPly5J03g" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5416084119424/WN_IfXTtbL5RMC9DYPly5J03g</a><br />After you register a personal log-in link will be sent to you automatically.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="yiv4150057174Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Mr.
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Centuries of Design Evolution (Hali 2019). </span></div><div style="font-size: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;">This one is Eastern time, adjust accordingly</div><div style="font-size: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></div>AND, here note that the time is Pacific time, so adjust to your location.<br /> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><span class="yiv2452878298Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"></span></p><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span class="yiv2452878298Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="yiv2452878298Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">--><span class="yiv2452878298Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>REMINDER: Saturday, January 9, 2021<span class="yiv2452878298Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 11 AM Pacific Time<br /><span class="yiv2452878298Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Woven Dreams from Sacred Mountains:<br /><span class="yiv2452878298Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Textile Traditions of the Tboli & Blaan of Mindanao<br /> <span class="yiv2452878298Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Craig Diamond, Independent Researcher and Collector<br /><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span class="yiv2452878298Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="yiv2452878298Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Register here:<br /><a href="https://zoom.us/webinar/register/9016084890608/WN_rFUHNI8mSMOQP4RkVmGNog" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://zoom.us/webinar/register/9016084890608/WN_rFUHNI8mSMOQP4RkVmGNog</a><br />After you register a personal log-in link will be sent to you automatically.<br /><br /></span></span></div><p></p><div class="img-preview-wrapper"></div><div class="img-preview-wrapper"></div><div class="img-preview-wrapper"></div><div class="img-preview-wrapper"></div><div class="img-preview-wrapper"></div><div class="img-preview-wrapper"></div><div class="img-preview-wrapper"></div><div class="img-preview-wrapper"></div><div class="img-preview-wrapper"></div><div class="img-preview-wrapper"></div><div class="img-preview-wrapper"><img class="preview" height="640" id="yiv245287829806cbd4b7-d2d4-4d39-a8b8-fbe9b9e9d353" src="https://apis.mail.yahoo.com/ws/v3/mailboxes/@.id==VjN-CJZX-_hi6yEYYF__33ZT8vGixhPpOJ25htJcmASlUCXgaB6TUh-ZJygiHqSvHeP3BmBxuc2UTjmHlmQVvjcwMQ/messages/@.id==AITncmQ5dQBRX_CsPAz4UKe9b84/content/parts/@.id==2.3/thumbnail?appid=YMailNorrin&downloadWhenThumbnailFails=true&pid=2.3" width="457" /></div>Boudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755568855319050817.post-51244461029806071552020-12-31T08:16:00.001-08:002020-12-31T08:16:51.446-08:00Tapestry returns, stitching too<p>This is an elegant how to book on everything you ever needed to know on the art of Tapestry Weaving. Rebecca Mezoff does a lot of teaching, on YouTube and elsewhere, and is very skilled indeed. She got Sarah Swett to write the foreword, so that inclines me to study this book. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7ZNPv_5SOp4/X-3axWU4YpI/AAAAAAAAnLA/3-EZK49BpoEZOXyAYHOMdiJrsPyMia46ACPcBGAsYHg/s3208/IMG_20201231_085040722.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3208" data-original-width="2412" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7ZNPv_5SOp4/X-3axWU4YpI/AAAAAAAAnLA/3-EZK49BpoEZOXyAYHOMdiJrsPyMia46ACPcBGAsYHg/w301-h400/IMG_20201231_085040722.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><p>Aside from the instruction, there's a gallery of tapestry art, from very modern, tapestry is art, and it changes as art does</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nobl3Q3c3wM/X-3axTm7kYI/AAAAAAAAnLA/dyxARfNyULgN6F-3Zn1pMnWSAwZ00jRdACPcBGAsYHg/s2889/IMG_20201231_085802607.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2889" data-original-width="2306" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nobl3Q3c3wM/X-3axTm7kYI/AAAAAAAAnLA/dyxARfNyULgN6F-3Zn1pMnWSAwZ00jRdACPcBGAsYHg/w319-h400/IMG_20201231_085802607.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><p>all the way back to medieval, the Unicorn Tapestries. There is a collection in the Cloisters, part of the Met, which I've visited, and another in the Cluny Museum in Paris which I totally failed to visit when I lived there, because I didn't know about it.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ELp7z-CZa-s/X-3axfdeBbI/AAAAAAAAnLA/LQtDhCp2yM8cH7GITchBpKgHIaKiQTfxgCPcBGAsYHg/s3264/IMG_20201231_085806853.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ELp7z-CZa-s/X-3axfdeBbI/AAAAAAAAnLA/LQtDhCp2yM8cH7GITchBpKgHIaKiQTfxgCPcBGAsYHg/w300-h400/IMG_20201231_085806853.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p>And here, harking back, is a stitching I created years ago, been exhibited and had a good deal of attention. It's from a picture of one of the Cluny tapestries, stitched in a single strand of floss, on 38 count silk gauze canvas. I just used the picture as a reference, working on a blank canvas.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E9LdW4qyvJc/X-3axeej8NI/AAAAAAAAnLA/wCBhojepYcQZpe1_DU7Ls7O4-c37V7hMQCPcBGAsYHg/s1375/IMG_20201231_085903292.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1375" data-original-width="851" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E9LdW4qyvJc/X-3axeej8NI/AAAAAAAAnLA/wCBhojepYcQZpe1_DU7Ls7O4-c37V7hMQCPcBGAsYHg/w248-h400/IMG_20201231_085903292.jpg" width="248" /></a></div><p> It's 6" x 4" framed in a little wood frame which works quite well for it. I've also used this image, scanned it and taken transfer prints from it. Got my moneys worth, I'd say.</p><p>Meanwhile, if you're interested in tapestry, Rebecca covers every sort of loom, from the large floor loom to diy pipe looms and wooden craftsman made looms. I don't think there's anything you can't find in this book. She also deals with color and design, just everything.</p><p>Even if you don't plan on working in tapestry, it's a great book to wander through just for the visual pleasure of the whole thing.<br /></p><p><br /></p>Boudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755568855319050817.post-87784612837726572992020-12-26T06:19:00.000-08:002020-12-26T06:19:24.945-08:00It came upon a midnight clear<p>This is what happened on Christmas Eve, as I was looking for Christmas music on YouTube. I just found in my feed another fiber prep video, this time not about pseudorolags, but about -- fauxlags! And Spinning Sara, a great teacher, who knows exactly how to demonstrate, and when to explain and when to just show, introduced me to this wonderful prep method, better for a solid color than the pseudos, which are a way of blending as you go.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J1uXhxgboQ4/X-aSQqtUoyI/AAAAAAAAm-k/VOqq_px5zUke_1k3cWqwN6gP_7jvevXSQCPcBGAsYHg/s2049/IMG_20201225_195343987.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1778" data-original-width="2049" height="348" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J1uXhxgboQ4/X-aSQqtUoyI/AAAAAAAAm-k/VOqq_px5zUke_1k3cWqwN6gP_7jvevXSQCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h348/IMG_20201225_195343987.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>Here's a dense chunk of roving, needing to be opened up and aired before working it.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EMYJHPC9SGI/X-aSXnYZ2lI/AAAAAAAAm-o/NeVsglH6fukn6lyeenL8SOdmGOvLZHivACPcBGAsYHg/s2448/IMG_20201225_195332487.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1824" data-original-width="2448" height="297" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EMYJHPC9SGI/X-aSXnYZ2lI/AAAAAAAAm-o/NeVsglH6fukn6lyeenL8SOdmGOvLZHivACPcBGAsYHg/w400-h297/IMG_20201225_195332487.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>Sara draws it out gently end to end, like this. The black pants are a good background for this, but not a good choice for staying fluff free, but it's all in a good cause</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1_Uet43xGr0/X-aSe2xl5wI/AAAAAAAAm-s/ACIsAlklA_IWw40w9TVAYPP8nnnUWNtVgCPcBGAsYHg/s2965/IMG_20201225_195625015.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2965" data-original-width="2150" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1_Uet43xGr0/X-aSe2xl5wI/AAAAAAAAm-s/ACIsAlklA_IWw40w9TVAYPP8nnnUWNtVgCPcBGAsYHg/w290-h400/IMG_20201225_195625015.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><p>So instead of a dense mass, you end up with this long airy fiber length</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6CB3reKyZNI/X-aSlNsWlJI/AAAAAAAAm-w/hd6qtRrvGyoVfgfkTl0tnndfElmi6BrGACPcBGAsYHg/s2929/IMG_20201225_200133582.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2929" data-original-width="2311" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6CB3reKyZNI/X-aSlNsWlJI/AAAAAAAAm-w/hd6qtRrvGyoVfgfkTl0tnndfElmi6BrGACPcBGAsYHg/w315-h400/IMG_20201225_200133582.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><p>Which you roll, a single turn, onto something handy of the right size. She has a wooden piece of a loom which works fine, and I went in search of something like it in my art supplies. I rummaged through my pvc pipe bag of bits, and found just the thing. Once again, pvc pipe is the answer. Just the right length and diameter.<br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R4BMLVzBZRw/X-aStG9Er-I/AAAAAAAAm-0/mP8Lp2Gl6AIX8QuY8jimyk8Y2gNW1MYpACPcBGAsYHg/s3264/IMG_20201225_200928031.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1348" data-original-width="3264" height="165" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R4BMLVzBZRw/X-aStG9Er-I/AAAAAAAAm-0/mP8Lp2Gl6AIX8QuY8jimyk8Y2gNW1MYpACPcBGAsYHg/w400-h165/IMG_20201225_200928031.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>See how you roll, one revolution of the pipe before breaking the fiber, into hollow tubes?</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YwVsMVsB3fo/X-aSz5gZ6rI/AAAAAAAAm-4/jzvfkWVT7Ho_jqz7W3J2hD_FD1o4gLy-gCPcBGAsYHg/s2796/IMG_20201225_201245393.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="2796" height="229" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YwVsMVsB3fo/X-aSz5gZ6rI/AAAAAAAAm-4/jzvfkWVT7Ho_jqz7W3J2hD_FD1o4gLy-gCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h229/IMG_20201225_201245393.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>And this is the whole length of fiber made into these fauxlags, just waiting to spin.</p><p>By this time it was after midnight, and I still had to try spinning them before I declared it a day, or night.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SvZ6V-LHVRU/X-abPOyoGAI/AAAAAAAAm_U/M2QT8W_w94MDDxEzPgJMyIjqdesEyveYACPcBGAsYHg/s1297/IMG_20201225_210626300.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1297" data-original-width="848" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SvZ6V-LHVRU/X-abPOyoGAI/AAAAAAAAm_U/M2QT8W_w94MDDxEzPgJMyIjqdesEyveYACPcBGAsYHg/w261-h400/IMG_20201225_210626300.jpg" width="261" /></a></div><p>So here's the fluffy, airy result. </p><p>Happy Spinner here. And I did eventually find the London Brass playing a wonderful concert of Christmas music, out of doors, brass instruments standing up to cold a bit better than others.</p><p>And proved yet again that makers are a little crazed as people go.<br /></p><p><br /></p>Boudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755568855319050817.post-51653108730572840092020-12-22T11:39:00.003-08:002020-12-22T11:39:23.444-08:00So here's what may send me off on a tangent<p>Just looking at the SpinOff newsletter, which suddenly shows up in my email now and then, and mostly isn't right on point for me. But this one is.</p><p>See here <a href="https://spinoffmagazine.com/on-a-roll-with-pseudorolags/?utm_source=drip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Spindle+%2B+Bowl%3A+Finding+the+Perfect+Pair&utm_content=SO+12.22.20+Newsletter" target="_blank">Pseudorolags</a> It's about a different way of preparing fiber for spinning and I think it might just be a bit of fun for me to try, given that I have quite a few different fibers to try it with. Hm.</p><p>About the name pseudorolags! Rolags are little sort of sausages of fiber, which you create with your carder and spin from. I made them when I had that raw fleece and consequently tons of fiber to work with. These are made without any tools at all, just your hands and maybe a couple of pencils to roll them on. Right up my alley. Simple is good.<br /></p><p>No sooner said than did.</p><p>Wisps of fiber layered</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CQS9F9NN7DE/X-JB-eQkqQI/AAAAAAAAmz0/svdvPHRWIGIUIZhjl4W1VKiOQJEged_XACPcBGAsYHg/s2448/IMG_20201222_133533927.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2219" data-original-width="2448" height="363" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CQS9F9NN7DE/X-JB-eQkqQI/AAAAAAAAmz0/svdvPHRWIGIUIZhjl4W1VKiOQJEged_XACPcBGAsYHg/w400-h363/IMG_20201222_133533927.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Several colors incorporated, then rolled up</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-95nZc2RbAII/X-JB-WhE-uI/AAAAAAAAmz0/P2ZzbX2OB5IxQjCjvDUUbLZ_OucZcz9aQCPcBGAsYHg/s3264/IMG_20201222_133646437.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1533" data-original-width="3264" height="188" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-95nZc2RbAII/X-JB-WhE-uI/AAAAAAAAmz0/P2ZzbX2OB5IxQjCjvDUUbLZ_OucZcz9aQCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h188/IMG_20201222_133646437.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>And here's the resulting yarn. It drafted very well, considering it consisted of many layers of short fibers.You see the parent fibers on the left.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Lth75Sca0i0/X-JB-eRCK-I/AAAAAAAAmz0/AwHFsJOAracMnhmdkwRiwINJWOYRM7yswCPcBGAsYHg/s2962/IMG_20201222_135535970.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1782" data-original-width="2962" height="241" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Lth75Sca0i0/X-JB-eRCK-I/AAAAAAAAmz0/AwHFsJOAracMnhmdkwRiwINJWOYRM7yswCPcBGAsYHg/w400-h241/IMG_20201222_135535970.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>And I'm quite pleased with the fineness of the yarn I was able to get. I did this on my smallest spindle.</p><p>I think this will happen more. You can design as you go, depending on what you put in the rolls.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Boudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.com5