Showing posts with label Preserve entries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Preserve entries. Show all posts

Saturday, March 16, 2019

Loom in action, small experiment with embroidery floss

The loom I'm building is moving along, and I learned quite a bit about threads and nuts. After a trip to the saintly staff of Smith's Ace hardware, I came home with a replacement couple of rods, plus hexnuts that fit.

Turns out there's nothing on the market to fit a metric left handed threaded rod. And their attempts to find, anywhere in the system, a couple of rods to size, having failed, they cut down a bigger one.

Huge effort for a small sale on their part. But I am very grateful. And I shipped back the rods that didn't work out.

Meanwhile. I'm testing the s hook loom with a little tapestry in embroidery floss.



It's working fine so far. Most regular weaving I've done up to now. And as you see, the s hooks are staying put.

On nonweaving subjects, yesterday I entered four artworks into the Preserve Annual Exhibit, involving handmade artist's book, painting, drawing, printmaking. I'll find out next week if I get anything in.

They were very interested in my offering possible weaving entries next year, so that presents me with a future goal.