The Finnish mantle warp is on the loom and I’m ready to start weaving! Here are all the details on that process or you can skip over that part and go straight for the weaving eye candy as I have a largish gallery of photos documenting the process.
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The Finnish mantle warp is on the loom and I’m ready to start weaving! Here are all the details on that process or you can skip over that part and go straight for the weaving eye candy as I have a largish gallery of photos documenting the process.
Several years ago, a friend taught me to naalbind using what is commonly known as the mammen stitch. Naalbinding is an ancient needle looping technique that predates knitting for string manipulation. It was used in the Viking age, but also dates to ancient Egypt, I believe.
My big project for last year’s season was to begin to put together a better encampment kitchen setup. I made some good progress and expect to continue to work on it this year. Here is a gallery of photos showing what we were up to. I hope you enjoy these pictures.
I spent a good portion of yesterday on the rigid heddle loom, measuring the warp and warping the loom. I am indebted to the information contained in Betty Linn Davenport’s invaluable book “Hands on Rigid Heddle Weaving“, without which I would probably still trying to get the patterned gauze sample on the loom. The key piece of information I learned during this process is that when tying on, the heddle has to be in…
After I cut the linen warp off the loom and cut the towels apart, I hand washed and air-dried one of the towels to see how it would react. That came out well, so I screwed up the courage to throw all the towels in the washing and drying machines. They came out well! The weave and the fiber relaxed into a nice drapey hand. Next step was to press them and hand…
Last winter, my husband built a new door and frame for the jurta. The primary requirement was that it would easily break down for transport, unlike the red and black doors,which were transported in one piece. The construction was inspired by a yurt door design in “Yurta: a Central Asian Nomad’s Hearth and Home”, a video produced as part of a kirghiz yurt exhibit at the Mingei International Museum in San Diego in 1997. In…
I’m at an SCA event this week where the weather is sunny and gorgeous, something that is somewhat rare where I live. It’s a perfect time to take pictures of my camp. I hope you enjoy this new gallery.
In lieu of a real blog post, I thought I would be a photo gallery of some of my weaving projects. For some reason, I thought this would be easier. Not so much as it turns out. I went back through four years of pictures and project notes to put this together. I hope you enjoy this chronicle of my adventures in fabric weaving. I do a LOT of broken diamond twill. 😉
This gallery contains 18 photos.
