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.

