New weaving adventure

Weaving a kind of industrial landscape.

 using handspun and dyed yarn which you see here all rolled onto tubes.

And this will be different from previous tapestries, because there will be smoke and flames and drama, all being well.

At that point I plan to pull raw top through and have it rearing up. Just flailing about, not woven neatly, see the black and white and red stuff there? That.  Also the copper armature wire you see there, which has featured in several weavings.

It came out of an old washing machine being stripped for parts by a friend's husband. He asked her if that artist friend might want it, he couldn't use it. Done. It's beautiful.

So tomorrow I'll see how this goes. The variegated yellow looks a bit agricultural, and a bit of copper might happen there. Or something. Won't know till it's upon me, or I'm upon it.

Painting with yarn and texture. I really like working big ideas in small format.

I could call it Dark Satanic Mills, but the reference might escape the viewer.

And I did a classic Dumb Move. Accidentally cut a warp thread when I was fixing some slubs. Arghghg. But I find, as I learn, that a lot of seeming disasters are quite fixable if you keep breathing and take a minute.

Here I cut a new warp thread, knotted it to the cut ends and went from there. Works fine. You can't see the repair now that it's buried.

That could apply to a lot of life situations, come to think of it.