Thursday, November 21 2024

Half Sleyed

Threading all done, and half sleyed! I may weave tonight!

Threading!

Half done!

MM Atwater weaving

Women Who Weave

Last week I saw a weaving book advertised on craigslist for $10, and asked E to pick it up for me. It’s a copy of Mary M Atwater’s The Shuttlecraft Book of American Hand-Weaving which I knew was a classic, and appeared to be in good condition.  Inside it’s a treasure. Not only is the book itself full

Bergman first warp

Rough sleying my “new” 12s Bergman with the first warp, which will be a lunatic fringe color gamp.

Color Gamp Draft

Since the post on color has gotten a lot of comments and positive feedback, particularly asking for beginners to post, I thought I’d post the draft I developed as a first project to exercise my “new” 12s Bergman loom. I posted a picture of the loom dressing in process yesterday. This will be the fifth

Tie-up Test

This is our first effort at tying up the new to us Bergman 12 harness / 14 treadle loom. We tied up treadles 1 and 14 as tabby, so 1 lifts the odd numbered harnesses and drops the evens, and 14 lifts the evens and drops the odds. Mesmerizing to watch!

Lovely Bergman

New (to me- it was built in 1936 and has been, uhm, well loved) loom ! It’s a 12 shaft Bergmam. 12 shafts! Having a hard time imagining what that means. It’s half assembled and back to back with my 50 yr old Norwood 4 shaft.

Warping claw

Warping for new napkins.

M#ths

Reaching the end of a three plus month eradication effort in my studio that started when I pulled out samples to re-photograph for a re-release of their patterns, and found three of them had moth holes. Yarn stash has now been thoroughly examined for bugs, treated or tossed as appropriate, and is hermetically sealed into

First Draft

Here’s the improved draft for the towels I just finished. I promised it back when I started the project, and now that it’s ended I finally have put it together. If anyone wants a .wif I uploaded it to the files section.

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