tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23857243687698052132024-03-13T11:32:17.705-07:00Kathe Todd-HookerAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09602511849713822619noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724368769805213.post-18725245612240727182015-06-01T18:07:00.001-07:002015-06-01T18:07:59.876-07:00A blog with 3 chapters<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> Table of contents</span><br />
Chapter one-This and That, <br />
Chapter two-Small Format tapestry<br />
Chapter three- Getting from A to B<br />
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<em><u><span style="color: magenta;"> But,first an announcement of an up coming class!</span></u></em> <span style="font-size: small;">I will be teaching I am going to do more teaching in my studio and having others teach master workshops in my studio. So I am letting everyone know that I will be teaching <span style="background-color: magenta;"><em><u>Tapestry, Soumack and Friends</u></em></span> in my studio on August 29—31, 2015 and for anyone who wishes to extend the class for 5 days for further study of Soumack and friends. Cost is 275 for 3 days or 400.00 for the full 5 days. Please contact me at <a href="mailto:kathetoddhooker@comcast.net">kathetoddhooker</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">@comcast.net</a> if you are interested.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Lucida Calligraphy;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Chiller; font-size: x-large;">Chapter one</span>--</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Lucida Bright;">The</span></span> end of a fairly long project is in sight!
I <br />
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wanted to see how close I could weave to the top heddles and how much of a
circular warp I could use on my Mirrix loom. I <br />
will be cutting off 6 new pieces
by the end of the week or not. Seems like I won't quite finish before I leave the first of June.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Lucida Handwriting;"><span style="font-size: large;">BUT, they will be by July 1 ending a 2.5 year period of work.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Lucida Handwriting;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> </span>am having
an<span style="color: #9b00d3;"> <span style="color: black;">exhibit of 8 of my new pieces that have never been shown at the</span> </span><span style="color: #9b00d3;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ETC or the Eugene Textile</span><span style="font-size: medium;">
center in Eugene, Oregon. <span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Minus one piece-Metamorphic transmutation 7x7x7+infinity.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-size: medium;">But, Before that I will be in the South and South west I am traveling down to visit with friends in Arizona, New Mexico and other places. Finally ending up in Natchitoches, Louisiana for the opening of the </span>8<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> ATA Small Format Exhibit-Honoring Tradition , Inspiring
innovation for which I won the Tietalbaum award. <br />
Minus one piece-Metamorphic transmutation 7x7x7+infinity that will be at
the 4<br />
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The first venue of the exhibit will be at is Orville Hanchey Gallery, NSU, Natchitoches, LA.
Starting June 8th. The opening is June 11th. My husband and I have decided to
attend so I’ll be driving cross country-Almost 3,000 miles and visiting friends and
galleries along the way. <br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Thus ending a 1 year hiatus of exhibiting my work.</span> <br />
The reasons I choose -several-- I
needed a break from deadlines and break away from the exhibiting mentality. My
break started from a question that Yael Lurie asked me. Why was I still entering
shows? I couldn’t thing of a reason other then because they are there.
Definitely not a good reason <br />
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I did enter the ATA show, but only because small format tapestry is close to my
heart and I’ll always support it by entering good well thought out exhibits with catalogues. <br />
<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: medium;"><strong><em><u>In the process</u></em></strong> I
realized what I really want to do is tell stories in my own ways… <span style="color: red;"><strong>SO I am…</strong></span> Which leaves me with 8 pieces to
finish before the first of July. They will all have the same birthdate. Teaching
and writing will always be a given in the process of telling stories with my
weaving. </span><br />
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Another clarifying event or reason - I help put together 2
Tapestry Topic issues On small Format Tapestry- One has been published and the
other will come out this fall. Not that it took so much of my time, but it started me to really thinking about issues and what I want to do. I realized that I was being consumed by the need
to enter and not so much by the weaving and designing. I realized I was feeling
burnt out. So I took a break. Made a bunch of life changes. Did a lot of
journaling-lost over 100 lbs.(no, I am not sick.) and now I am only doing those things that I want
to do, when I want to do them, for why I want to do them, knowing when to let
things go, letting go and new goals-see chapter 3, if your interested. <br />
<br />
<a href="file:///C:/Users/kathe/AppData/Local/Temp/WindowsLiveWriter1286139640/supfiles1443F4D3/one3.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="color: red; font-family: Chiller; font-size: x-large;">Chapter 2-</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;">What is small format/ small scale
tapestry?</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">The term format</span> deals with size and
shape-- plain and simple. Sometime in the near past a French tapestry designer by
the name of Lurçat(of course we shouldn't forget about Wm. Morris's and the British weavers in all of this.) decided rather arbitrarily that tapestry wasn't tapestry and
could not be defined as tapestry<u> <span style="color: red;">UNLESS</span></u> it was
larger than a square meter, at least 10 epi, wool, architectonic and muralistic
and Eurocentric. Making void thousands of years tapestry history and tradition
in the name of fine art and revitalizing the tapestry industry-perhaps-or not-and very
related to William Morris earlier try and perhaps the Bauhaus...etc., etc. etc. and of course US weavers followed suite for all of the usual reasons...
</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">In the US until not too long ago- the 90's.-his definition and
opinion of tapestry defined who and what tapestry was in the US.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">When I first began to weave small format tapestry small format
weavers weren't allowed to exhibit in tapestry shows/exhibits because of the way
tapestry was being defined. One <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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example of many, In 1991 at the Fine Line
Conference it was also decided by some very prominent tapestry weavers- Marc
Adams included- and teachers, etc. that tapestry had to be no less then 10epi,
wool, over 36 by 36 inches in size, only four sides and that things that were
shaped such as Dragon robes couldn't be tapestry.(for more info-check out the last issue and the issue to come on small format tapestry.) "They", also, decided Navajo
and SW weavers were also not doing tapestry because the items that were produced
were utilitarian rather then "fine tapestry art". "They", also ruled out Middle
Eastern weaving, Coptic and most traditional <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coptic smaller then a square meter-not a tapestry?</td></tr>
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Scandinavian tapestry as not
tapestry, because they were utilitarian and or too small. These ideas began to
change in the mid 90’s and with the rise of good small format looms, the
internet, exhibits for small format and the erasure of size requirements
attitudes are changing and Small format weaving is becoming a growth industry
and much more acceptable in the tapestry world. Organizations such as ATA and
others have removed size restrictions from exhibits and held to the definition
that tapestry is a weft faced unbalanced plain weave with the possibility of a
discontinuous warp. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not tapestry-woven in silk not </td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">Since then, and amid great controversy, Small format tapestry
has come to be defined in two ways-well actually 3 ways-15 by 15 inches, under
10 inches by 10 inches/100 square inches. There is also a sub category where the
pieces can be no larger than 5 by 5 inches.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">My personal druthers is that there should not be size
limitations on any tapestry exhibit. Even though I am grateful that there are
exhibits that have size limitations just so we can exhibit which are helping do
away with the built in systemic prejudices against small format tapestry.
</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">There is a but- Mary Diederich a well know small format/small
scale tapestry weaver in the 90’s once said that by doing this we need to be
careful that we don't create a barrio or ghetto that would then limit where
small format tapestry could be shown at the exclusion of large format tapestry-
Again creating a rift between the acceptable and not acceptable tapestries
.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">Small format weavers were often told in the very near past they were weaving samplers
or in one case dish clothes-and in a polite way mixed media or fiber art.
</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">(<span style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Slight aside--</span> I often wondered if instead of being a size issue
if it wasn't really originally a<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marc Adams</td></tr>
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gender issue. I was often told that small
format tapestry and it's designers were to feminine-granted many of my designs
included flowers- also perhaps to feminine and one had too look past that
feminine quality to find meaning. On the other hand there's whole traditions of
males painting flowers in Europe. And, of course Marc Adams designed many
florals, So, maybe the issue is still just size with just a hint of gender
issues.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: x-large;">Okay that
said.</span> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">The other thing that really needs to be said is that <span style="color: red; font-size: large;">there is a difference between scale and
format.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">Format only defines the physical nature of the tapestry. Example
the edges of the tapestry are or maybe 5 inches x 5inches or 5 foot x 5 foot.
Format defines the size and shape of a given piece. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Scale/</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>scale</strong> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span>is determined by warp size and weft
size, number of picks or passes in an inch. Example-- I weave at 20-22 epi. Epi
or sett is determined by the size of the warp and how far apart or how close the
warps are together on the loom. Mostly 38-40 passes per inch(a pass is an over
and a back) Picks or passes are determine by how large the weft bundle is. So
one of my tapestries “And he…” is 28 inches by 20 inches at 22 epi. Should be
considered to be large format, but small scale. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">A piece woven at 22 epi but 15 inches by 15 inches or less would
be small format even if woven at 8 wpi and maybe 10-12 passes per inch, but
would be large scale and small format.</span> <br />
<br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDU26lFjLWBarMlJQROhi-rF__Mw1yL9u69_t7RWeYKv7WX8RSxeEpd-xFUwIvFfJ1DpJbHS0JrEX1HugI70lBJd5DciL4WKvQqRtgmlaOr6XR9GowtPMWHvH7L6pp8lD1VLRu8AbqDZs/s1600/scan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDU26lFjLWBarMlJQROhi-rF__Mw1yL9u69_t7RWeYKv7WX8RSxeEpd-xFUwIvFfJ1DpJbHS0JrEX1HugI70lBJd5DciL4WKvQqRtgmlaOr6XR9GowtPMWHvH7L6pp8lD1VLRu8AbqDZs/s400/scan.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
<span style="color: blue;"> Same cartoon woven in two different formats and scale.
Difference one is twice the size or half the size of the other. Only real change
is one is upside down with a shell removed and a nautilus added.</span> <br />
<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Chiller; font-size: x-large;">Okay that said-why is it important to
know this?</span> <br />
<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;">'<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigB_YLmv-S9cU9Ne-X-U87MTKHG60b3MfELKAQe_5wZEzVrmz8vvl7OvpWr4saYlKD1FpjhiqLKR3r0KXSjxte7HLKNfLhpA1Q5QRI6VjaF2WHRyl0vSHPQ6Ko6qbIrPBwZUOOfSnM5xc/s1600/DSC_0308+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigB_YLmv-S9cU9Ne-X-U87MTKHG60b3MfELKAQe_5wZEzVrmz8vvl7OvpWr4saYlKD1FpjhiqLKR3r0KXSjxte7HLKNfLhpA1Q5QRI6VjaF2WHRyl0vSHPQ6Ko6qbIrPBwZUOOfSnM5xc/s320/DSC_0308+copy.jpg" width="239" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"And He who tells a bigger tale will have to tell a lie"</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-size: small;">The <span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">biggest complaint</span> I hear
all of the time about small format tapestry is one can't get enough detail in
small format work, <span style="color: magenta; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy;">which is
probably true,<span style="font-size: large;"> if</span></span> you are trying to weave a small
format design at a large warp sett or scale. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail "And He..." 22 epi.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihjNm7Dhnd7Itxz7IuYGSHzmTikRJ-VGf-tQzaJ9pS_rl93aIyJ4WYwq2MDPls8MMUVzlSa8DsdY6UnyUvFjTZ8Y4NXeYxRH9TsMh-LQCybt7aWUXuruSoEbE7MSSWW-8RSKPjd_DqrHo/s1600/DSCN6357.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihjNm7Dhnd7Itxz7IuYGSHzmTikRJ-VGf-tQzaJ9pS_rl93aIyJ4WYwq2MDPls8MMUVzlSa8DsdY6UnyUvFjTZ8Y4NXeYxRH9TsMh-LQCybt7aWUXuruSoEbE7MSSWW-8RSKPjd_DqrHo/s200/DSCN6357.JPG" width="87" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"And He..." 10 epi</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: magenta; font-size: x-large;">My</span> biggest complaint is that often I weave <span style="color: magenta; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy;">small scale at too large of a format-</span>more
detail and way more time then I need to expend on a given piece. Good example
was my piece –(not that I don’t love the piece) “and he…” at
165 days of weaving time. Instead of 40 to 60 hours of weaving on an average
sized small format/small scale piece-8 times bigger then my average piece. It
was a large format designed</span><span style="font-size: small;"> to be 4 feet by 6 feet that I
shrunk by about half so that I could weave it in a small format/small scale
size.<span style="background-color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> Consequently</span>, it did help me make a life decision. I sold both looms-my
6.5 Shannock and my Mirrix Zeus so that I would never be tempted to do that again!
Life lesson learned- I am a small format/small scale weaver,
always!</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixHNdDVy5Hec5PQGpsyzMN2aB0HoWrN7JboRL_7kU38SDbEXkZ8Mlks_y7JdQm2iSIGoU0iZNlyHYpWQZd6dbRqAPUNOe2aop1bsNA2zsrLMHw9qAx8q7Q0C1Aq_I_gXN_JhpuLxYKMPA/s1600/DSCN6367_edited-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixHNdDVy5Hec5PQGpsyzMN2aB0HoWrN7JboRL_7kU38SDbEXkZ8Mlks_y7JdQm2iSIGoU0iZNlyHYpWQZd6dbRqAPUNOe2aop1bsNA2zsrLMHw9qAx8q7Q0C1Aq_I_gXN_JhpuLxYKMPA/s200/DSCN6367_edited-5.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Small format project-a place to<br />
grow ferns for weaving</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #8000ff;"> <span style="font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;">So, I have a
couple of things that should be considered when designing a
tapestry</span></span><span style="color: magenta; font-size: medium;"><strong> or if you would a
“modest proposal”(J. Swift) for designing and weaving tapestry-if you
would.</strong></span><br />
<br />
1. Free your creativity-approach each design with an open mind. Just because
you were taught to weave at a certain size, specific materials, or tradition,
or warp sett, weft bundle size doesn't mean you have to weave tapestry with the
materials you were taught to use.<br />
<br />
2. Design your tapestry- first-THEN DECIDE on the size you wish the final
tapestry to be and how <br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTnbHNxy0MroXuyuZjAY9vm6engboj40aKte_T48eCkDIGXoKNW2NzQPLIN0CECI4otXZG3bmgFQ9KYajGyLimMr6vHmgfLR-1ToyT2TAfTvDAyh5aoGfMeo425rlLrKF_8je1IduYBiw/s1600/DSCN6354_edited-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTnbHNxy0MroXuyuZjAY9vm6engboj40aKte_T48eCkDIGXoKNW2NzQPLIN0CECI4otXZG3bmgFQ9KYajGyLimMr6vHmgfLR-1ToyT2TAfTvDAyh5aoGfMeo425rlLrKF_8je1IduYBiw/s200/DSCN6354_edited-3.jpg" width="178" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coptic woven slippers and a belt!</td></tr>
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you want to use the finished tapestry or the function of the finished tapestry. It is easy to take a design to a
lazerquck or UPS or copy shop or use your computer programs to create a size you
want a design to be and have it blown up to the size you wish it to be. <br />
<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnzj-XGFlH5iiW9GFGbL8fm2cKTWWruwETai77V3HS4o9SKcStjdOjF1brme8pvK8aCO9Vt0mx-yAfl4mnavm_33o_AipxW-uDsW8zb-UJ4HY5YzpcPQGl_YKbWpkAk_DmXzpf-Vxs540/s1600/DSCN6386_edited-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnzj-XGFlH5iiW9GFGbL8fm2cKTWWruwETai77V3HS4o9SKcStjdOjF1brme8pvK8aCO9Vt0mx-yAfl4mnavm_33o_AipxW-uDsW8zb-UJ4HY5YzpcPQGl_YKbWpkAk_DmXzpf-Vxs540/s200/DSCN6386_edited-5.jpg" width="139" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Choices--Wool, embroidery floss, silk rayon,<br />
cotton seine twine, Dual duty craft thread</td></tr>
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<br />
<br />
3. Decide-The hand of the fabric-how drape-able, stiff, fabric-like,<br />
thickness-etc. <br />
<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq_Uidwzy8opOr5gAe2tQl3DsxuQ3e1gTvaE_LSRVOmN8EH-EuO_HLGXBW6a8_a2NM1upSk0DBezOmmJTdznN4D4MXqHVwoAdVvBzKlpCqmdgTVJjYrDP1LC7q6x7nuKXEXoHUXu1x4CI/s1600/DSCN6352.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq_Uidwzy8opOr5gAe2tQl3DsxuQ3e1gTvaE_LSRVOmN8EH-EuO_HLGXBW6a8_a2NM1upSk0DBezOmmJTdznN4D4MXqHVwoAdVvBzKlpCqmdgTVJjYrDP1LC7q6x7nuKXEXoHUXu1x4CI/s200/DSCN6352.jpg" width="177" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caladium Lakes that was eventually <br />
woven at five feet 38 inches, but here is a 12 inches by 16</td></tr>
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4. Look at the design and decide how much detail you want in a square inch.
Detail is a question of how many passes and how many warps in a given inch.
Consider how much detail is in the design. Then decide on warp sett, warp and
weft materials and format taking<br />
into consideration what you want the end
product to be. Not every design should be woven or size determined by warp
sett.<br />
<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfZU0jtTQaTvvCwmGNvfuBQYcGPrnVZXOYF_-ujF3oRb-FxBejeW2SqIQkCEnaL37WdNVrFnygacsaggC6XYaqFYJ9W_qjW30dySfZ8Ql_8fF8awDiu7Pao2ki0HVgXa88lDbBNrGMCbA/s1600/DSCN6346.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfZU0jtTQaTvvCwmGNvfuBQYcGPrnVZXOYF_-ujF3oRb-FxBejeW2SqIQkCEnaL37WdNVrFnygacsaggC6XYaqFYJ9W_qjW30dySfZ8Ql_8fF8awDiu7Pao2ki0HVgXa88lDbBNrGMCbA/s200/DSCN6346.jpg" width="113" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">fewer wefts-white shape is halfed in size<br />
and the amount of weft in each shape. </td></tr>
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5. Learn to scale your materials to what you want in the design. IF you want
more detail in the weft passes in a given space. Use fewer strands in your weft
bundle. This allows you to do more passes in a given space. On the other hand if
you plan ahead you can double up the warps and work the warps in groups for
larger scale within a given area. (use <br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxw29IU4Meu7ofIHGmBe-RAkI9-MmnzN7aXlne-1qfJ341UbEo0fDMzbm1BfR9evv8EEDh3OZnNkB1VbxYwfj0g_gk1AVz0mqhjj4emauVD9fEkRziGVVocVe8YU8mBYuxf0hPrgiRWU0/s1600/DSCN6392_edited-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxw29IU4Meu7ofIHGmBe-RAkI9-MmnzN7aXlne-1qfJ341UbEo0fDMzbm1BfR9evv8EEDh3OZnNkB1VbxYwfj0g_gk1AVz0mqhjj4emauVD9fEkRziGVVocVe8YU8mBYuxf0hPrgiRWU0/s320/DSCN6392_edited-1.jpg" width="154" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On left 5 strands of Avl to begin each section<br />
is one less thread in the weft bundle.<br />
On right paternayan 4 strands with descending<br />
number of threads in weft bundle.</td></tr>
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soumack on the fell line so you don’t end
up with lice where the <br />
shed goes greater or smaller) You can eve use a
supplemental warp that floats on the back until you want to increase the warp
sett for more detail and them float it on the back again when not needed. <br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaKvCyqljFFQ_nOzbkpHAa08pscEj07qja_B3OSfDMNUTZnjo6PcntRGBkRENGKYd4sGEPMO6AJ5YseXVrxYghwc_mVlpbUrj6JzFaLsY4A7hvLlOekqJUeBxaGp9ETk-HVFoE8g-wPjc/s1600/DSCN6350.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaKvCyqljFFQ_nOzbkpHAa08pscEj07qja_B3OSfDMNUTZnjo6PcntRGBkRENGKYd4sGEPMO6AJ5YseXVrxYghwc_mVlpbUrj6JzFaLsY4A7hvLlOekqJUeBxaGp9ETk-HVFoE8g-wPjc/s200/DSCN6350.jpg" width="184" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">sampling using 5 and 10 epi-doubled <br />
warps. The eye uses both doubled warps at <br />
10 epi and lines are done and hatches with only one thread in weft bundle.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<br />
5. This is also the time to think about what could limit the size you want to
weave-One’s body, ones loom(s), eyesight and Time limitations. If you try to
weave a small scale/ large format piece it could take a very long time as I
discovered in one large format small scale piece.<br />
<br />
6. Now make a decision based on your answers! Have fun with it! For me it takes just as much time to weave the same
piece at any format. 10 epi or 22 epi is the same technique, same skills. The
format is just different. 10 epi will be twice the size as one woven at 20-22
epi. Scale is the determining factor at a given format as too how <sub><span style="font-size: x-small;">long it
takes.</span></sub><br />
<sub></sub>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Chiller; font-size: x-large;">Chapter 3 <span style="color: blue;">Getting from A to B</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
I am tired of the grind of trying to keep up with internet things. I am
finally realizing how much that time/energy involved does away with what I truly
want to do-Tapestry, writing about tapestry and even teaching tapestry. To be
happy I need to weave 4- 6 hours a day for 6 hours a week, but will settle for
5. (just trying not to be excessive-LOL!) .<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjALpp1LoY4mOFAnB2Ox_HN7mnn7EXbpOD67z5-i2VQqqOPerGfOTM0yYteOMPD8R6rZ7j2R3524nhnKAFdQszLXwoaJI7IB05Y1xzXuF3yAq7fm5d8RKYeFOXC2y1MNvAdPx9qmL4XbW4/s1600/DSCN6376.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjALpp1LoY4mOFAnB2Ox_HN7mnn7EXbpOD67z5-i2VQqqOPerGfOTM0yYteOMPD8R6rZ7j2R3524nhnKAFdQszLXwoaJI7IB05Y1xzXuF3yAq7fm5d8RKYeFOXC2y1MNvAdPx9qmL4XbW4/s320/DSCN6376.JPG" width="259" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How much time I can afford away from the loom and still be happy!</td></tr>
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<br />
I am so tired of trying to learn new things. Things that change faster than I
can keep up. At what point does one say stop and get off and stay put. New
computer programs drive me up the wall let alone creating new webpages, business
forms, and etc. Seems to zap my energy. But, I am still maintaining my 4-6 hours
of weaving a day. <br />
<br />
SO I have been re-evaluating how I spend my time and energy. I am really
excited about the blogs I am planning on doing . I have a 40 page lexicon of
tapestry terms that I have compiled over the last almost 40 years which will be
the first document in the Tapestry compendium blog.<br />
<br />
<i><u><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">But-This blog is about wants and moving on.</span></u></i> I am going to do more
teaching in my studio and having others teach master workshops in my studio. <span style="background-color: magenta; font-size: large;">So
I am letting everyone know that I will be teaching Soumack and Friends in my
studio on August 29—31, 2015 and for anyone who wishes to extend the class for 5
days for further study of Soumack and friends. Cost is 275 for 3 days or 400.00
for the full 5 days.</span><br />
<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwpL57kzcspu-6szBCTUzrqKvcRkDOGFJOykwkoXx-q4apqt0Iq9CVhZrVU9A3QdwUDLe2lJAffrwjpvyd5a02W6VUTpi0IbxKot7gtK9EzupsCiQYJ6rFsh1bttDtmajdKG6ze46xW-Y/s1600/DSCN6371.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwpL57kzcspu-6szBCTUzrqKvcRkDOGFJOykwkoXx-q4apqt0Iq9CVhZrVU9A3QdwUDLe2lJAffrwjpvyd5a02W6VUTpi0IbxKot7gtK9EzupsCiQYJ6rFsh1bttDtmajdKG6ze46xW-Y/s200/DSCN6371.JPG" width="125" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pitcher blants about to bloom!</td></tr>
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I am redoing my blog(s)There will now be two perhaps 3. One being the
creation of something called a Tapestry Compendium(and more). This blog will
morph into one that will still be about teaching answering questions and making
tapestry information and lists available to everyone. Hopefully, but not
promised it will or portions of it will morph into a tapestry zine about
technical stuff, bibliographies list of blogs, suppliers book reports or reviews
of tapestry books. . I want to create a more interactive blog where people can
ask questions about tapestry and get answers to problems-- A place where
technical articles-old and new- can be placed and available and easily obtained
by all. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Earth stars or fossilized nautilus. <br />
Relic from my Gramma's beliefs.</td></tr>
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There will also be pages of tapestry tools and their uses and looms as I
and others gather info-eventually-I am hoping for this to contain tapestry loom
manuals. I have had some generous contributors over the years. Many of the terms
have come from places long forgotten. Another page will be a list of blogs that
I have gathered through Tapestry 2005 which actually began in 1996. This will be
an extension of a blog list attached to the list that yahoo will not allow me to
update-SO, I'll find a way to make an updatable blog list available to all
connected to My Tapestry2005 yahoo group list. My hope is that others will
contribute and it will become more and more over time.<br />
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This blog here at this address- This blog will be about what I am doing in
tapestry. The third blog when the new webpages are finished will be attached to
my former business that will be morphing in to a business called Between &
Etc. Fine Fiber Press will still be part of this new business. It is just
taking time to put all together mainly-because I have been stymied and passively
refusing to learn new programs. True luddite that I am-instead of learning new
programs-I am going to use what I know how to do and just start. <br />
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And if you've read this far- Here's kinda cool trick that I use. I started doing this when some my older students kept pulling the knotted threads used to sew cartoons and stabilize slits would pull through <br />
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and snag the weft on the way out. The thread is doubled through the holes of the button.<br />
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Enuff of this for now!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09602511849713822619noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724368769805213.post-41052961141073625132014-09-29T17:53:00.000-07:002014-09-29T17:53:14.319-07:00Circling AroundAs usual when we work on the outside of the house its decided to rain. But, the colours are right! The house is a light turquoise the studio darker both with plum coloured trim and and beautiful blue doors for luck. The metal gates<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-jtzC8icBGmY/VCn9q-8CxPI/AAAAAAAAFqU/hnWEi49Tz8M/s1600-h/DSCN5387%25255B11%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN5387" border="0" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-_bgawU-HZQg/VCn9rqVZizI/AAAAAAAAFqc/Z25FEIvR3e0/DSCN5387_thumb%25255B11%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="244" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN5387" width="142" /></a> will each be a different colour.<br />
I have so much to do this week. I have a student coming to stay a week in the studio for tapestry lessons-exciting one of my favourite things to do.<br />
I am working on a new piece about my two radically different Grandmothers. I am also trying to get together a book called--- of course--<br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Jokerman; font-size: large;">Soumack and friends.</span> <br />
When my student leaves. I leave the next day to teach in Prescott Arizona at Mountains spinners and Weavers guild. I understand there are still a few spots open. Then I’ll spend several days weaving with <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-iN-JNHSAtuo/VCn9sSSUFUI/AAAAAAAAFqk/wJcjCfOUxAU/s1600-h/DSCN5378%25255B10%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSCN5378" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-EwGmyzCOlzA/VCn9yax940I/AAAAAAAAFqs/WJuQbtfVvIU/DSCN5378_thumb%25255B12%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="192" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN5378" width="135" /></a>friends in Santa Fe and move on to the next weekend teaching at Village Wools in Albuquerque, N. M. I am teaching a class called Soumack and Tapestry Friends. Yes it does deal with using Soumack architecturally to control angles and curves and circles-well any geometric shape.It’s one of my favourite classes to teach-I think because it has so much to do with drawing in tapestry. I love making lines go any direction I want, the architectural nature of soumack and friends, and of course, rya and related techniques. <br />
<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-4xZ6vpVchyQ/VCn9zP01cgI/AAAAAAAAFq0/jN3LWlKZGLA/s1600-h/DSCN0214%25255B9%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN0214" border="0" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Qr4GtqY2RhU/VCn9z3naTmI/AAAAAAAAFq8/81pzPAkyVX0/DSCN0214_thumb%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="118" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN0214" width="153" /></a>I have been asked several times if I will ever teach an on-line class on these techniques. My answer is no. I don’t enjoy teaching on line and there are others such as Rebecca Metzoff that enjoy it and do it well. I doubt she will offer this specific class, but I am sure she has many fine classes. I just prefer to do it in workshops, one on one, and face to face. So if you want to take this class from me you’ll need to travel to a workshop or my studio. I am offering this class on Valentines day in my studio in Albany, OR. Private students can even stay in my home while they study at the studio. <br />
<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;">Okay- here’s my promise kept on writing about circles and stuff. . One caveat there is much more information in Tapestry 101. Much more about trouble shooting circles and more about technique.</span> <br />
<span style="font-size: large;">First a couple of Caveats-There are two things I tell my students constantly.</span> <br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;">One- there are no tapestry police.</span> <br />
If you do something oddly or differently no one is going to take your loom away and tell say you can’t weave tapestry. There are a hundred different ways to do most things and none is right or wrong if it gets the job done and you like the end results. <span style="color: red; font-size: large;"> BUT,</span><br />
<span style="color: #8000ff; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;">Secondly don’t dumb down and make design decisions because you think you can’t do something.</span> <br />
If you want to simplify a design or misshape something, do it because you choose too. Not because you have to! Figure it out and weave what you like. Look up techniques, ask questions, but don’t say-<span style="font-size: large;">o, well,</span> it’s just the nature of tapestry. It’s not! Tapestry is about fooling the eye. Tapestry is all about how to weave <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-0lw-a6-fsMU/VCn90hUbTZI/AAAAAAAAFrE/_J-mdRCgATg/s1600-h/DSCN5374%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN5374" border="0" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-d43xZ2gPxwc/VCn91aU-7XI/AAAAAAAAFrM/DspVo7UEgxE/DSCN5374_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="134" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN5374" width="174" /></a>your design and make it look like what you want. If you want round circles without stair steps it can be done. <br />
<span style="font-size: large;">don’t</span> make or justify decisions by saying it’s kelimesque or that your copying another cultures design sensibilities to make up for mistakes in the design and weaving-especially when it comes to circles that culture very seldom if ever uses. Very view kelims have circles-ever. Own up and fix it and then choose to it the way you want to make it look!<br />
<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;">That said,</span> I want to write about circles, curves and angles without teeth or stair steps. <br />
1. <span style="font-size: large;">Know the geometry</span> of the shape or curve or angle you wish to weave. If you need to draw the shape out on graph paper. Do it! It’s not cheating! Because you are after<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Lt4CbOnsGhA/VCn92K0I-4I/AAAAAAAAFrU/uYpN7V1s8Q8/s1600-h/img068%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="img068" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-ZlVz7mVTTUM/VCn92po0ehI/AAAAAAAAFrY/u_ypJ-0_3yg/img068_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="110" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="img068" width="99" /></a> all weaving on a grid. Once you reduce a geometric shape to a drawing on graph paper you become aware of how it works if you weave straight passes. You’ll see the stair steps and the sizes they need to be.<br />
Lets use a circle as an example. Use a template to draw a<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-hlJCllXr-pQ/VCn93N6QfgI/AAAAAAAAFrk/PDQQv4epmR0/s1600-h/img069%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="img069" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-FrM50QsSL_E/VCn9305jmEI/AAAAAAAAFro/9C4CHZoALX4/img069_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="136" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="img069" width="131" /></a> circle on a piece of graph paper. You’ll see that the sides raise with a variety of different sized stair steps and pass widths.<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Quarter the circle .</span> You’ll have 4 pieces of a pie. What you’ll find is each of those pieces equals the other the other 3 pieces of the pie. <strong><em><u>AND</u></em></strong>, will be almost identical in the way they ascend or descend in stair steps. You also should note that because your working on a grid that there are 4 areas that will be basically flat-top, bottom and <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-N-3jfe3f8XY/VCn94QwE7MI/AAAAAAAAFr0/VW5uaYTFcWE/s1600-h/DSCN5377%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN5377" border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-CSKfikbFUd0/VCn95KmYJHI/AAAAAAAAFr8/r3NKtgO6Hx8/DSCN5377_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="61" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN5377" width="76" /></a>the two sides. if you look carefully they each equal about a third of the width <strong><em><u>AND/OR</u></em></strong> length of the circle. <br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Then,</strong></span> look again, the next step over will be about one/ sixth of the flat area. The steps become smaller as you move over and up. At about one half the the climb of the first quarter of the pie you start to duplicate in reverse the sizes of the stair steps of the climb until you are matching in the rise the size of the beginning stair steps. The last stair step before the side flat area on each side is 1/3 of the the bottom and side flat areas. The two bottom sides of the circle are identical.<br />
Each of the 4 pieces of the pie will be woven in the same way with the s<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-o5oWXj6TtCw/VCn952SdspI/AAAAAAAAFsE/QrzJgROwRb8/s1600-h/img071%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="img071" border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-z3pnn0sn5OQ/VCn96fd_lBI/AAAAAAAAFsI/ae5XOgmlpPk/img071_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="130" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="img071" width="93" /></a>ame number of stair steps and overs. The possible exception that one passes d<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-HLtfItFvzDQ/VCn97BdNbEI/AAAAAAAAFsQ/U6IErcluOSE/s1600-h/img074%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="img074" border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Kc1uFkNC02k/VCn97ykBcUI/AAAAAAAAFsc/YcWbQXCje7w/img074_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="88" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="img074" width="244" /></a>oes not always equal another pass in a turn. IF you turn on a hollow thread it will take more passes to equal those then turns on a full thread.(Hollow or Valley thread and full and hill are often used interchangeably when describing this Phenomena)<br />
The top half of the circle is usually woven about 5 percent higher so that as the circle is beaten on and over it doesn’t squish the circle into an oval. In a perfect world a circle would always have an uneven number of warps. But the world isn’t perfect so just remember it might take an extra pass occasional on a hollow or valley thread. <br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;">Now that you have a fairly good idea of what makes a circle works. It’s time to weave the circle.</span><br />
So, to begin. It’s always a good idea to ink the circle on the warp. Ink at the last minute. With the types of warping processes that most of us are using if you ink to soon the <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-4O1w4kfSElg/VCn98TyCdkI/AAAAAAAAFsk/SWdWEeyGMhQ/s1600-h/img072%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="img072" border="0" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-u3OxD7ji3d4/VCn99PITdTI/AAAAAAAAFso/ViIuRJMpmpw/img072_thumb%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="153" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="img072" width="110" /></a>ink circle can become distorted as the warps shift and turn in the weaving process. So, keep the cartoon close or make a template that you can check the circle against. Also, there are right ways and not so good ways to ink. You always want the finest line possible and the ink to go all away around the warp. Use a very sharp pen-hold only the very tip against the warp and turn the warp in your other fingers to get the ink around the warp.<strong><em><u><span style="color: red;"> Do not</span></u></em></strong> use a juicy pen as the ink and wick up or down the warp. Use only tested water proof markers.<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">To begin to weave-</span> Weave the base half way up each side of the circle and stop. Make sure that you use the same pattern of turns and stair steps on both sides. If you change the number of passes using fewer or more the circle will no longer be round. <br />
Now you have a couple of decisions to make especially if you don’t <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-0clcXv-BZWI/VCn998hVdDI/AAAAAAAAFs0/Q4YWou4utnU/s1600-h/DSCN5376%25255B8%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN5376" border="0" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-BL-MlhKrFl8/VCn9-bYK0iI/AAAAAAAAFs4/Tryy4Q6DjE0/DSCN5376_thumb%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="88" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN5376" width="120" /></a>like stair steps or teeth in your circles. You can choose<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-NOeZeFwb-zw/VCn9_BZbXyI/AAAAAAAAFtE/RlxcDSxTsZ8/s1600-h/img069%25255B13%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="img069" border="0" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-HWNj57goVZk/VCn9_ouZs1I/AAAAAAAAFtM/hgrC5lp_aYY/img069_thumb%25255B16%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="129" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="img069" width="113" /></a> to split the weft or use soumack to smooth everything out. I generally use soumack. My soumack weft is usually one half of the weaving weft bundle because I don’t like ridges on my tapestry. You ca<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-eh323_Bb7y8/VCn-AWJaGDI/AAAAAAAAFtU/pbtUBjM2p-g/s1600-h/img073%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="img073" border="0" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-op2w4yHN2NM/VCn-Az1w62I/AAAAAAAAFtY/g5CRcaBgpoU/img073_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="49" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="img073" width="96" /></a>n choose the weft to be in the colour of the base colour or the colour of the circle. If need be to continue the coloured soumack weft one can lace up the sides of the slits. But, One can only soumack so far up the sides and across the bottom before the distance the soumack weft travels across the warps and up begins to look loopy. At this point I stop the soumack and then pay attention to full threads and hollow threads as I weave. I often jump up with the weft <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-qoDZiq-CjPk/VCn-BQY6GbI/AAAAAAAAFtk/0LLLW-uCs0g/s1600-h/img070%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="img070" border="0" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-XQsy-iQgcRQ/VCn-B3LQQCI/AAAAAAAAFto/gDBhaz4-Dhw/img070_thumb%25255B9%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="107" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="img070" width="107" /></a>turns to pull off<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-SB8rSPbS4T4/VCn-CUu27II/AAAAAAAAFt0/4vl3OXFwkb8/s1600-h/img071%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="img071" border="0" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-GXdx1AaDnGg/VCn-DGD1I3I/AAAAAAAAFt4/DNpWyFubOqc/img071_thumb%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="146" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="img071" width="105" /></a> the tooth. I weave the first half of the circle.<br />
To end the circle or do the last half one weaves the inner circle in the same way or reverse the stair steps-BUT it is the same pattern of climbs that <br />I began with the first half of the circle.<br />
I will also weave the circle slightly taller. About 5 percent above the cartoon to take into account the squish factor. I then outline the circle in soumack and fill in the out side bases of the circle paying attention to the hollow and full threads as I ascend up the sides and over the circle. Once the soumack happens at the top it will round the circle and get rid of any teeth or stair steps.<br />
<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-nsqE2AKnMnI/VCn-DpqMcqI/AAAAAAAAFuE/IVnTyunzQ54/s1600-h/DSCN5375%25255B8%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN5375" border="0" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-DXeyFDaYSMY/VCn-ESK40vI/AAAAAAAAFuI/V4p96oLdI30/DSCN5375_thumb%25255B10%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="194" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN5375" width="187" /></a><span style="font-size: medium;">A couple of things to be aware of</span> as you weave and beat the bottom part of the circle it will have a tendency to widen out while the top of the circle will have a tendency to pull the warps in. Once you reach the top half of the circle you no longer have the base or out side to follow. You will be dependent on the cartoon and inking to keep the circle round. <br />
Don’t stop checking the circle. Trust your eye rather then your markings which can shift and stretch as the warp relaxes from being worked. Generally weave slightly over the the inking. The other thing-- this is not a good time to tighten or mess with the tension of the loom. Begin with the tension being tight.<br />
The other thing to remember is that circles have a tendency to loose height when the tension is taken off of the weaving so compensate accordingly. Remember that circles do have a tendency to pull in as the top half is woven. Watch for consistency in the bubble of the weft while you are weaving. Use more weft if it starts to pull in. Less weft in the bubble in the areas next to the area that is pulling in. A major error that I see all the time is as it begins to pull in the weaver suddenly begins to use way to much weft in the pulled in area and they get vertical ridging, If this happens use less weft in the weft bundle and more in the areas next to the pulled in area to it will correct easily. Those vertical ridges will not go away with ironing etc. And if you can get them out they leave a blister or bubble in the tapestry. <br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: medium;">Weaving circle</span>s is much more detailed in my book tapestry 101. In my Tapestry 101 book I actually describe several other methods for weaving circles without stair steps and teeth. There are also some <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-hpPkHG5rtsg/VCn-FEdrOjI/AAAAAAAAFuU/xcrhAIIn6UM/s1600-h/DSCN5382%25255B12%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSCN5382" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-rM_K-NK23XU/VCn-F8B7joI/AAAAAAAAFuc/X8qpLB3lUws/DSCN5382_thumb%25255B14%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="193" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN5382" width="244" /></a>weaving corrections for making circles rounder by using the inside or circle weft passes in different ways to force the circle to be more round. The illustrations in this book were done by Pat Spark. Please do not abuse the copy right of these pictures. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: medium;">Guess that’s all for now!</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: medium;">kathe</span><br />
<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-M5Xe77W29Fg/VCn-GRqdhNI/AAAAAAAAFuk/gHGeJXOeOAc/s1600-h/DSCN0573%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img alt="DSCN0573" border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-WPF-0REHdrs/VCn-HJ-AZRI/AAAAAAAAFuo/ZVdIe5baR-s/DSCN0573_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="292" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN0573" width="379" /></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09602511849713822619noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724368769805213.post-26862624936614739662014-09-09T16:48:00.001-07:002014-09-09T16:50:17.516-07:00My summer of reconstruction and other things!<p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-YCADCcc76UA/VA-RVYrKfqI/AAAAAAAAFkA/0cc2LomgQ8k/s1600-h/DSCN0549%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="DSCN0549" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN0549" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-vCpsYHoXYWA/VA-RV7yMAfI/AAAAAAAAFkE/6S0DDam5YBg/DSCN0549_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="139" align="left" height="108" /></a><font color="#ff0000" size="5" face="Lucida Handwriting">This is about the 3 summer  months</font> </p> <p>that I decided to have a tune up. This is also the last of the reconstruction on<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-WTO7DoVkUNg/VA-RWdMl0uI/AAAAAAAAFkQ/5Fy7uNj0E4o/s1600-h/DSCN0562%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="DSCN0562" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN0562" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-_O9JHjMs5Ic/VA-RWxCVKnI/AAAAAAAAFkU/_19o8ILEDwk/DSCN0562_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="117" align="right" height="91" /></a> the house. Gale is busily painting the house and the studio and hanging the last 3 doors. I have been spending a lot of time reorganizing the studio,painting floors and reorganizing yarn, storage and gifting my <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-BdPgS3PGV-E/VA-RXDRtDjI/AAAAAAAAFkg/HnHMJ55xT1I/s1600-h/DSCN0561%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="DSCN0561" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN0561" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-vnV1wOnei1o/VA-RXkte3cI/AAAAAAAAFkk/2YhaIUjSCfo/DSCN0561_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="116" align="left" height="90" /></a>unused larger yarns to friends and students. I will be done with that in the next day or <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-RcQ3znwXP-g/VA-RYBRRHRI/AAAAAAAAFkw/vNVWtpDNO8k/s1600-h/DSCN5351%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="DSCN5351" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN5351" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-vhd1WnBSzXM/VA-RYmA_oKI/AAAAAAAAFk0/xGdGeu6LYB0/DSCN5351_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="161" align="right" height="124" /></a>so.   </p> <p><font color="#9b00d3" size="5" face="Lucida Calligraphy">Every so often</font> one needs to have one or at least a time of reassessment. This has been both for me-Cataract surgery on both eyes, wrist hand surgery and a few other tweaks that should produce some lasting great results. <font color="#ff00ff" size="5" face="Jokerman">The cast are off.</font> I <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-flzAt1nO7WA/VA-RZKh8kGI/AAAAAAAAFlA/V2et9NhzNNc/s1600-h/340%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="340" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="340" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-pptQq7-1b44/VA-RZr88ftI/AAAAAAAAFlE/aTNxBbYSGVg/340_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="175" align="right" height="138" /></a>have 20/20 close up vision, but will need glasses for distance. I even get to start driving again on the 20th.  My colours  back to what they should be-no more grey staining the colours that I see... I am now off insulin. I am back to my Better Bones and balance. I have added tai chi-maybe- depending on the nerve in my leg and the PPS. Perhaps, I have done enough reconstruction to make it work. We’ll see. So all that said….It’s time to weave and write. Not that I ever quit-Just fewer walls to go up, over and/or  around<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-1XdvJBQ8aK4/VA-RaE9yeqI/AAAAAAAAFlQ/DX4aCcJeaUE/s1600-h/DSCN5370%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="DSCN5370" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN5370" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-I0i2ELGgxOk/VA-RakSUazI/AAAAAAAAFlU/wwU6F4zqKNI/DSCN5370_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="219" align="left" height="244" /></a>d.</p> <p><font color="#ff00ff" size="5" face="Lucida Handwriting">I finished weaving</font> my Grandfathers piece yesterday-except for the finishing. I am not in a great hurry to finish them up as I am trying to come up with a new body of work for an exhibit I am have next June at ETC in Eugene, OR. My next piece is started even as speak. I am in the process of laying it out. The drawings take time. I can only use drawing utensils  only so many hours at a time. Just like I haven’t been able to use bobbins because of having worn the cast for so long.</p> <p>These are my new <font color="#0000ff" size="4" face="Jokerman">best friend<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-hF3Y9wWxCns/VA-RbEItZgI/AAAAAAAAFlg/NOD3OoqLemU/s1600-h/balls%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="balls" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="balls" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-I9uMuBZCS6w/VA-RbvThy_I/AAAAAAAAFlk/0APd4_Wc6Yo/balls_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="116" align="right" height="128" /></a>s</font> as I try to reclaim the muscles in my hand and forearm that were forced to hibernate and atrophy from lack of use. The nerves become less numb day by day and the hand stronger and less prone to shakes and charley horses.</p> <p><font size="7" face="Lucida Handwriting"><font color="#ff0000">3 Promises to keep</font>-</font></p> <p> </p> <p><font color="#9b00d3" size="4">An announcement that I hope everyone will consider and write for. I think that it is <strong><u><em><font color="#ff0000" face="Broadway">really important</font></em></u></strong> that small format/small scale  tapestry weavers step up and make themselves known. So I am looking for writers about small format/small scale tapestry that can help to document the process of our being accepted as tapestry weavers in the tapestry world.</font></p> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="499" border="4"><tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="491"> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/kathe.toddhooker?fref=nf"><font color="#00ff00"></font></a></p> <h6> <p><font color="#00ff00" size="6" face="Lucida Calligraphy"></font></p> <p><font color="#00ff00" size="6" face="Lucida Calligraphy">Tapestry Topics</font></p> </h6> <p>I am seeking articles for the American Tapestry Alliance Tapestry Topics <br />Small Format/Small Scale Tapestry: Subversive, Destructive, or...? Deadline: Jan 15, 2015 <br />What is small format/small scale tapestry? Is it "tapestry," or isn't it? Why are so many people weaving <br />small format/small scale at this particular time in the history of tapestry? Ideas to think about: <br />The history of small format/small scale tapestry past, present, and the future.... <br />What excites you about small format/small scale tapestry? <br />What can the format do? What can it not do? <br />What are the technical advantages, or restrictions, for this format? <br />Coptic weaving, K'o-ssu, Kesi, 16th century lowland small format, devotional tapestries <br />Exhibits of and about small format/ small scale-past, present and future. <br />If you plan on submitting an article, please contact Theme Coordinator, <a href="mailto:kathetoddhooker@comcast.net">kathetoddhooker@comcast.net</a>.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Fbyv-qhsKwQ/VA-RcMlhTfI/AAAAAAAAFlw/HV7Mxlu3a48/s1600-h/There%252527s%252520got%252520to%252520be%252520a%252520orning%252520afterA%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="There's got to be a orning afterA" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="There's got to be a orning afterA" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-b84yMn8U6OU/VA-RcgBSlhI/AAAAAAAAFl0/qEtywGIfIXc/There%252527s%252520got%252520to%252520be%252520a%252520orning%252520afterA_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="194" align="left" height="146" /></a><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-lhFFG8tFmL4/VA-RdIjoxrI/AAAAAAAAFmA/v0ZwOfIPbf8/s1600-h/There%252527s%252520got%252520to%252520be%252520a%252520morning%252520afterA%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="There's got to be a morning afterA" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="There's got to be a morning afterA" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-PYdVNjgXTk8/VA-Rdol4s2I/AAAAAAAAFmE/R_Mp9yR4Y7U/There%252527s%252520got%252520to%252520be%252520a%252520morning%252520afterA_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="180" align="right" height="147" /></a></p> <p><font color="#0000ff" size="4">TOGETHER!</font></p> <p>as promised!</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>These two pieces together  on my blog. There’s got to be a morning After part A and B.</p> <p><font color="#ff00ff" size="5" face="Lucida Calligraphy">Which in away lead to this</font> post card and exhibit and catalogue-<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-SVkdSHk6aZY/VA-ReFFmq8I/AAAAAAAAFmQ/y3uN22sSTw0/s1600-h/img055%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="img055" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="img055" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-tSBp81NQ4rc/VA-Rekvgs9I/AAAAAAAAFmU/ccvFHcZ87n0/img055_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="170" align="left" height="117" /></a>This was the tenth exhibit small format exhibit that sprang from The It’s About Time exhibit in<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-18v8YaoqFJk/VA-RfDM53OI/AAAAAAAAFmg/6jHYZbtKVrE/s1600-h/img059%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="img059" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="img059" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-kl92Nw3GVP4/VA-RfoUu5pI/AAAAAAAAFmk/5fLhf1G8b_k/img059_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="172" align="right" height="122" /></a> 1996 in Portland, Oregon. this is a great catalogue and I think can be purchased from ATA.There is another coming up. Hope you all will start planning for the next one!</p> <p> </p> <p><font size="5">LESSONS LEARNED ABOUT WEAVING WITH A CAST!</font><font color="#9b00d3"> <font size="4">No bobbins and placing the weft</font></font></p> <p>I have learned and reinforced  a lot of information  about weaving with and without bobbins. I am not fond of the chaos created by not using bobbins even played with using butter<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-7LkYr8hgmuI/VA-RgLB1CFI/AAAAAAAAFmw/tcq-xOqZKGg/s1600-h/341%25255B11%25255D.jpg"><img title="341" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="341" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-zy1qn48nupE/VA-Rgo6JXSI/AAAAAAAAFm0/-NDMUdCfHKE/341_thumb%25255B9%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="163" align="right" height="128" /></a>flies to keep down some of the chaos-<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-osGh2opOTzA/VA-RhfFM_gI/AAAAAAAAFnA/j_djHeBJIjc/s1600-h/339%25255B9%25255D.jpg"><img title="339" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="339" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-m5JXcBWL7YM/VA-RhklPfZI/AAAAAAAAFnE/4FhF9jX05dM/339_thumb%25255B15%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="97" align="left" height="97" /></a>never again. Butterflies are two fragile. So, the solution was to use fairly long weft bundles-18-24 inches and tie an overhand knot every6-8 inches. <font color="#0000ff" size="4" face="Lucida Calligraphy">Biggest lesson</font> was to make sure that there were no loops in the end of the tail below the last knot. Leaving them in always created a knotted chaos of caught threads every time I pulled the knot through the open shed. I have gone back to using my smallest brassy bob’s that are about 3.5-4 inches long. At this point they are easy to hold in my hand,leaving the point out just enough to use as another finger- but, I am still using long wefts at this point. My hand tires too easily form putting the nob through the shed. </p> <p>Since I was unable to use the side tip of my bobbin to scrape the yarns in I used<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-SrFIp8lsnb0/VA-RiJTs1EI/AAAAAAAAFnM/V-_-L1Xqqvc/s1600-h/DSCN5374%25255B16%25255D.jpg"><img title="DSCN5374" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN5374" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-cZs7Nq0kBhU/VA-RiXx8WxI/AAAAAAAAFnU/cAHucBLL21c/DSCN5374_thumb%25255B18%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="97" align="left" height="125" /></a> the tips of my fingernails to beat in the yarns. My nails started loo<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-esUCQxbLSLk/VA-Ri4CmqvI/AAAAAAAAFng/BZHk3U8yadA/s1600-h/DSCN5373%25255B11%25255D.jpg"><img title="DSCN5373" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN5373" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-A_jMXF96eio/VA-RjaT5zRI/AAAAAAAAFnk/GB-6aRZxveg/DSCN5373_thumb%25255B14%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="91" align="right" height="122" /></a>king like some one had taken pinking shears to the tips.(<font color="#ff0000" size="4">OOPS,</font> I am dating myself-does any one use pinking shears anymore?)  My manicurist made a bundle applying gel nails as I wore down into the nails with the tight warps. I was able to get about 2 weeks from each application and replacement of a gel nail. After talking to my PT specialists I was able to come up with a solution they would damage my nail beds. The Japanese weavers have used this solution for hundreds of years. Most all of my instructors had told me never to use my finger nails to scrape or beat wefts into place because because the pressure of the beating could lift the nails from the nail bed or quick. This is true if it’s done wrong. </p> <p><font color="#9b00d3" size="5">THE MIRRIX  SPENCER-Another new best Friend!</font><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-WG-i2Jc6z-c/VA-RjijvUqI/AAAAAAAAFnw/wl71yLUDxd4/s1600-h/DSCN5348%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="DSCN5348" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN5348" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Y2f4EeRFYps/VA-RkacwsWI/AAAAAAAAFn0/8E0M_FlPcgc/DSCN5348_thumb%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="127" align="left" height="169" /></a>One of the things that made weaving so much easier during this time was that I switched from my regular titter totter treadles to a a new Spencer treadle. It has a sort of  neutral that holds the shed open until I step down and change the shed. Notice the <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-92HwfEhLEWE/VA-RlCNHZ_I/AAAAAAAAFoA/HnbOL2govGw/s1600-h/DSCN0552%25255B14%25255D.jpg"><img title="DSCN0552" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN0552" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-hNT8WnBEAAA/VA-Rly7VjoI/AAAAAAAAFoE/7_MNl-ZmCIA/DSCN0552_thumb%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="184" align="right" height="244" /></a>difference in size between my old treadles and the new Spencer which is under my foot.  Not only does it take less effort the neutral that holds the shed open is really great. So I purchased a second Spencer. It will be so much easier to travel with and pack. I am not getting rid of my old treadles either. the only draw back is that the Spencer needs to be plugged in to electricity, which sometimes isn’t possible  in some of the places I teach.  Perhaps, some one could design a battery pack or a a solar system for it-pretty please!</p> <p align="center"><font color="#0000ff" size="5"><strong><u>THE DIRE AND DEADLY SPRING SPREAD CONQUERED!</u></strong></font></p> <p>I think that I have finally come up with an easy solution to what I <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-IJDuxp3R0i8/VA-Rmd834VI/AAAAAAAAFoM/Ugqk3ScHOoY/s1600-h/DSCN0567%25255B9%25255D.jpg"><img title="DSCN0567" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN0567" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/--HcUNd7WVww/VA-Rm_iqkMI/AAAAAAAAFoY/VM47xuSzpac/DSCN0567_thumb%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="134" align="right" height="104" /></a>call Spring <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-yChXyNWC09c/VA-RnaHzf-I/AAAAAAAAFog/E-4cG-DpUa4/s1600-h/DSCN0570%25255B9%25255D.jpg"><img title="DSCN0570" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN0570" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-43-5tlTk1ls/VA-Rno3DkAI/AAAAAAAAFok/8H2VIRh3dpo/DSCN0570_thumb%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="108" align="left" height="84" /></a>Spread on my mirrix. This is a problem that drives me nuts…Spring Spread is what happens when the springs become older and start to fatigue. One can go from weaving 22 epi to 18 as the spring spreads. The problem with this is it can cause the tapestry ridges to spread and in some cases shrink. It also makes it very difficult to control the edges of the tapestry. <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-2lKcJPdLQ-o/VA-RoITuY8I/AAAAAAAAFow/dpWh41WE7y4/s1600-h/DSCN0564%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="DSCN0564" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN0564" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-QQ3WVGP3lXY/VA-RosoVk1I/AAAAAAAAFo4/gISbSzlvwuA/DSCN0564_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" align="left" height="98" /></a>Note the bulges on the two side edges that I was constantly correcting. </p> <p>So the correction for Spring thread is easy. I always twine when I begin a tapestry and tie a knot at the end at the exact width I want the tapestry <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-XTEjYkTHGGU/VA-RpQcfpyI/AAAAAAAAFpA/kbkdSRzoKuk/s1600-h/img061%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="img061" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="img061" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-yK24rX6c7fg/VA-Rp2RQ5XI/AAAAAAAAFpE/YOPpqj-Csso/img061_thumb%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="123" align="right" height="123" /></a>to be and then space the warps accordingly.So now I am just doing it at the top of the mirrix directly under the spring. I larks head on to the first thread, twine all the way<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-wKA7lcSA5os/VA-RqKebqJI/AAAAAAAAFpM/f2wrGYeke_g/s1600-h/img062%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="img062" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="img062" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-oxTJouM0XIw/VA-Rqoh67XI/AAAAAAAAFpU/s8aJCNzqmhA/img062_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="144" align="left" height="191" /></a> across and tie the ending knot at the exact width of that spring should be or end.Please note that the loom is balanced up side down to do this. Makes it much easier.If you look closely you can see my two twiners.  If I want to turn the warp around the loom then I just pull everything down and around. I can the<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-DTZi67b339o/VA-RrNugX9I/AAAAAAAAFpg/rhHoyiPLFhQ/s1600-h/DSCN5376%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="DSCN5376" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN5376" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-7Z5boVQuaKc/VA-Rrshk43I/AAAAAAAAFpk/4QmP_xn0Heo/DSCN5376_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" align="right" height="184" /></a>en beat the twining at the top back into place along the bottom of the spring channel. Solves the whole problem was Spring Spread!</p> <p> </p> <p>Guess this is enuff for now. Chene is trying to tell me something important and grabbing papers!</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-HLuSa9CPdXY/VA-RsCm_XYI/AAAAAAAAFpw/aD-cxnAoYcE/s1600-h/DSCN0573%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="DSCN0573" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN0573" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-xyBNJHcUGl4/VA-Rsv9cf7I/AAAAAAAAFp0/Mn-OlEhsom0/DSCN0573_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="335" height="258" /></a></p> <p>Cheers and all,</p> <p>kathe</p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09602511849713822619noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724368769805213.post-82129710839999457552014-05-08T17:11:00.001-07:002014-05-08T17:21:55.814-07:00Spring seems to have Sprung And It’s almost summer?<p><font color="#9b00d3" size="5" face="Lucida Calligraphy">This has been an interesting spring</font>. I have been on several major <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-orpSIo7q7rQ/U2wcs5tF2jI/AAAAAAAAFWQ/c_GmSC1v0EQ/s1600-h/orchids4.jpg"><img title="orchids" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="orchids" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-C62VJodjjkU/U2wctTSrz3I/AAAAAAAAFWU/-OS6ixCyijk/orchids_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="202" align="left" height="131" /></a>trips.Sedona, Cincinnati, Tec Nos Pec ,Santa Fee, seen a great many private students, the coast and Bend and numerous points in between. <font color="#ff0000" size="6">BUT,</font> the hardest trip I have been on has been a mental trip of working on a piece about one of my Gramma’s. It was hindering me so badly with unresolved issues-hers and mine- that I decided to<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-9sHHe7Af8v4/U2wctzbqJOI/AAAAAAAAFWg/s4W4PAEYt8c/s1600-h/Granpas-piece-5-8-20143.jpg"><img title="Granpa's piece 5-8-2014" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Granpa's piece 5-8-2014" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-0IVDuBcqSPg/U2wcuTikFMI/AAAAAAAAFWk/FyZCRAyIZ7E/Granpas-piece-5-8-2014_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" align="right" height="212" /></a> shelf it for the time being. I am now working on a piece about my Grandfather and the charmed life I led when I was with them while I was growing up. Someday I’ll reconcile or at least come to terms with my other Gramma, but not now. </p> <p>I have <font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Lucida Calligraphy">another small loom</font> to the side that I am going to be doing some small studies of things I have always wanted to weave, but couldn’t figure out where to put them in larger <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-_5QywOT21g4/U2wcvD_ZD-I/AAAAAAAAFWw/LYDen8wNJBM/s1600-h/DSCN52524.jpg"><img title="DSCN5252" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN5252" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-yztwPuLA66o/U2wcvqb6zMI/AAAAAAAAFW0/y5clFBuFhaE/DSCN5252_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="136" align="left" height="105" /></a>designs. On the same loom I decided to see what would happen if I tried having a piece(s) that world be more of a daily calendar type thing-sort of in the nature of what Tommye,Janette and Jan’s group does. It’s not going well so far. I admire the work they do with calendar type weavings, but in on the calendar pieces. What I am discovering for myself is it gets in the way of the focus  and concentration I need to have on a given piece.It’s almost more of an irritation then any thing else.<font color="#ff0000" size="5"> So,</font> I am going to keep trying and see if I just need an attitude shift in someway or maybe there just not for me to do. I’ll see. <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="455" border="4"><tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="447"><font color="#ff0000" size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting"><font color="#000000" size="6" face="Jokerman"><font color="#9b00d3">Warning- <br /></font> <br /></font>This is going to be sort of an odd blog in 3 chapters or perhaps 4. I found while I was away teaching my “More class” that I really didn’t have the backup materials that I needed for teaching my method of warping a mirrix loom-which is both faster and easier then using the wrap around bar system that many use or try to use  and eccentric weaving. <font color="#9b00d3"><font size="6">So, </font>I wrote to rather long sections on doing both that I am going to publish as blog entries for my students.</font></font> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-KGLXEB6x4YA/U2wcv6dgpZI/AAAAAAAAFXA/XOYnFeq2jjM/s1600-h/DSCN52473.jpg"><img title="DSCN5247" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="DSCN5247" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-XUFGWZQmUK8/U2wcwao_qPI/AAAAAAAAFXE/l2aOPvIa5As/DSCN5247_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></a></p> <p> </p> <p><font size="7" face="Century Gothic">A 3 stage trip-</font></p> <p> </p> <p>Stop 1- <font color="#ff00ff" size="5" face="Lucida Calligraphy">Sedona, Arizona</font></p> <p>I enjoyed teaching in Sedona. The weather was beautiful!  It’s a beautiful place especially out away and into the red rocks where we are at. It was kinda<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-mXuCGha5gNc/U2wcwwgVBnI/AAAAAAAAFXM/_wsu1OvUilA/s1600-h/sedona-red-rim13.jpg"><img title="sedona red rim" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="sedona red rim" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-jragcLC-Bcc/U2wcxNGn6vI/AAAAAAAAFXU/3vDO06wx8OE/sedona-red-rim_thumb14.jpg?imgmax=800" width="156" align="left" height="123" /></a> wild and very natural.One could look out and watch the birds while weaving and teaching, which I really enjoyed. Unfortunately my camera battery refused to stay charged and so I have no pictures   I wish I had taken more photo’s of the area and the class, but I discovered a new allergy complete with runny nose that sort of limited my picture taking. I really enjoyed the group. I am hoping to teach there again in the fairly near future. My  “More” class is fun to teach because it’s based on those skills already learned and pushing those skill  further. </p> <p><font color="#0000ff" size="4" face="Lucida Calligraphy">I did see an interesting show in Cottonwood.</font> It was in the Clarksdale library.My notebook got wet somewhere along the way and the ink ran so I called Carol VanSandt to retrieve the information and she’ll give it to me when she gets moved up to Southern Oregon this month. It was a really great fiber show.The pear and the orange sunset with rocks are done in embroidery floss by Carol VanSandt. Linda Pierce wove the orange sunset. Mary Liggit wove the other small framed piece. The larger wool pieces which are actually much better shaped and squarer were woven by about 12 weavers who were in a group project in the Verdi Valley Guild <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-WZU-n_ERULw/U2wcxuQbPII/AAAAAAAAFXg/zWhGlUhZxpc/s1600-h/DSCN14266.jpg"><img title="DSCN1426" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN1426" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-URU7gpaK54w/U2wcyERS7rI/AAAAAAAAFXk/AAEpPkFDqDU/DSCN1426_thumb8.jpg?imgmax=800" width="78" align="left" height="81" /></a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-o7-R_tsoEE8/U2wcyofMPBI/AAAAAAAAFXw/NCqPyc3Z_ZE/s1600-h/DSCN14275.jpg"><img title="DSCN1427" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN1427" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-8O0y5FomzCc/U2wczC1QysI/AAAAAAAAFX0/M5vemn72QUs/DSCN1427_thumb6.jpg?imgmax=800" width="94" height="106" /></a><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Ei9qCSM2sGk/U2wczlb7VvI/AAAAAAAAFYA/ncM_5w1YsPg/s1600-h/DSCN142912.jpg"><img title="DSCN1429" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN1429" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-f5VZ3Rzy3gs/U2wc0E7dOxI/AAAAAAAAFYE/kVH0t6DNrV0/DSCN1429_thumb13.jpg?imgmax=800" width="82" height="74" /></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Gl9-AtL337s/U2wc0rygxNI/AAAAAAAAFYQ/MiasB6fVJrU/s1600-h/DSCN142815.jpg"><img title="DSCN1428" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN1428" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-JagfDIlrIfc/U2wc1LzDXRI/AAAAAAAAFYU/NEAu0Il-5Y0/DSCN1428_thumb17.jpg?imgmax=800" width="95" align="left" height="108" /></a><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-7mWrkhSiHOo/U2wc1hCV4jI/AAAAAAAAFYg/3ZHE4KZljeI/s1600-h/DSCN14325.jpg"><img title="DSCN1432" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN1432" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-4uX1J8NrJa8/U2wc2Myuz2I/AAAAAAAAFYk/THO0Uk2NW6Q/DSCN1432_thumb6.jpg?imgmax=800" width="185" height="168" /></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-rLhnmuPP9YM/U2wc2t4EXYI/AAAAAAAAFYw/wh0qUgAfJxs/s1600-h/DSCN14345.jpg"><img title="DSCN1434" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN1434" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-CJW-ewZDsWU/U2wc21PhRlI/AAAAAAAAFY0/r28cEx5Z-qU/DSCN1434_thumb6.jpg?imgmax=800" width="139" height="172" /></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-1lVfROJXgTk/U2wc3aJJtmI/AAAAAAAAFZA/N9-U0u-9X1c/s1600-h/DSCN14355.jpg"><img title="DSCN1435" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN1435" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-wY1OzJSIeGA/U2wc31-EjgI/AAAAAAAAFZE/9wMiqk87dQE/DSCN1435_thumb5.jpg?imgmax=800" width="185" height="141" /></a></p> <p>STOP 2</p> <p><font color="#ff00ff" size="5" face="Lucida Calligraphy">Teec Nos Pec, Navajo Nation, Arizona</font></p> <p>Diane picked me up in Cottonwood and we headed out. The country is very different then what I am used to and know. Rock formations just pop up out vast flat areas. Rich colour is everywhere, but not the  vivid greens-created with an entirely different palette.  I am used to.The distances feel greater and vaster. In places the colour is like some one took a large brush and left brush strokes of reds and pinks. We stopped at the Navajo National  Museum in Window Rock.The exhibits were fascinating. I especially enjoyed one called a Beautiful Life.We finally arrived in Tec Nos Pec after taking a very long short cut.</p> <p>I loved visiting with my friend Roy Cady. It was fun <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-CbYV1Za-uw0/U2wc4VvR_YI/AAAAAAAAFZQ/XbmYQzkNE4g/s1600-h/DSCN14394.jpg"><img title="DSCN1439" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN1439" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-V_KvCUdhXW4/U2wc4xCnuUI/AAAAAAAAFZU/RSuC2-8j0xQ/DSCN1439_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="153" align="left" height="118" /></a>talking as weaver to weaver. Our weaving styles and/or philosophy are more similar then dissimilar.I enjoyed talking with several of the older weavers with Arieta as a translator.  Roy is a traditional weaver who enjoys pictorial tapestry, but with his own distinctive style. I love weaving just about anything that is pictorial. I first met Roy at a workshop in Santa Fe that was being taught by Jean Pierre Larochette, Yael Lurie and Phillipe Playier. The piece on the loom he has since finished and it is for sale on his web site. <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-kSWkVEBorng/U2wc5YWIi3I/AAAAAAAAFZg/edk4rZPZR4M/s1600-h/DSCN14384.jpg"><img title="DSCN1438" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN1438" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-xGyLCpoJE7E/U2wc5wI3JNI/AAAAAAAAFZk/U760FwPntEs/DSCN1438_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="134" align="right" height="104" /></a>Roy, of course, is the better weaver because his ends don’t show, but I’ll get better-grin! I promised the “Older One.”</p> <p>This is a detail of the twills  Roy has used so effectively in the piece.I am very fascinated with the contrast between the pictorial and the use of the twills. Roy is a great weaver and makes it look so easy. If I did this right you should be able to see the finished piece and an announcement for an exhibit he has going on. (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Din%C3%A9Navajo-Master-Fiber-Artist-Navajo-Churro-Sheep-Herder/193877327301595">Diné(Navajo) Master Fiber Artist & Navajo-Churro Sheep Herder</a> <i></i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/837737622919552/">Shimá's Gifts-My Mother's Gifts</a>)<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-DhnzXaKGBJI/U2wc6CN5RMI/AAAAAAAAFZw/x1i--sG2P3w/s1600-h/DSCN14605.jpg"><img title="DSCN1460" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN1460" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-zkcUtXd4ZgY/U2wc61DTVsI/AAAAAAAAFZ0/90uxR2hKgbE/DSCN1460_thumb6.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></a><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-_rDPUAWM2Ag/U2wc7C55btI/AAAAAAAAFZ8/j8vmIcqLLgs/s1600-h/DSCN1453.jpg"><img title="DSCN1453" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN1453" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-XHLJZYvqDoM/U2wc7hnqG3I/AAAAAAAAFaA/hSkRphVFF7I/DSCN1453_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="188" align="left" height="145" /></a><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-S5gUOYOC6uw/U2wc8GFCZlI/AAAAAAAAFaM/CkjcKLyOPnw/s1600-h/DSCN1446.jpg"><img title="DSCN1446" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN1446" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-hgAu1yoTzFw/U2wc8oSDfyI/AAAAAAAAFaU/25FgJLlWMRQ/DSCN1446_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="185" height="143" /></a></p> <p>The bag is one that was done by his Shima Mary Clah. The mountain of rocks is I think called Goat Rocks, but to my way of thinking will always remind me of Monkeys because of a story Roy told me about escaped Monkeys, which reminded me of  my Grandmother and her tales of what would happen to children that disobeyed and the drumming of the birds wings.</p> <p>STOP 3</p> <p><font color="#ff00ff" size="5" face="Lucida Handwriting">Santa Fe, N.M.</font></p> <p><font color="#ff00ff" size="3" face="Lucida Handwriting"><font color="#0000ff">This is probably one of my favourite places to travel  and visit. It’s a blending of new and old, traditional and non traditional. The Plaza is one of the few places I enjoy being a tourist.  I love picking up trinkets and needful things(?) such as wind ups and Milagros. I enjoyed talking to   the native American artists that were selling along one walls of the  Old Plaza. I bought a copper torque style and jasper  bracelet that I love . Had a great time talking about copper and where he was from. I stopped in for a few minutes and visited with Rebecca Metzoff in her studio. It was fun comparing a few notes and seeing more of her</font><font color="#000000"> work.</font> <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-AMHMRvrVXuE/U2wc9Ej4ZFI/AAAAAAAAFag/6PoiG5YNoyY/s1600-h/pages-of-notes3.jpg"><img title="pages of notes" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="pages of notes" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-9WOQxAay3nU/U2wc9fLhUSI/AAAAAAAAFak/fsCgjTy-gHw/pages-of-notes_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" align="left" height="183" /></a></font></p> <p>Two of the 20 pages of notes that I am  still sorting through on everything that I saw, tried to absorb, and talked about with others. While trying to have a good time hanging out with friends Tony and Diane. The business cards are Rebecca Metzoff’s. They are beautiful little works of art that I liberated from her studio. The wool samples are all of the various wools used in the area by regional weavers in Arizona and New Mexico. It also notates to different weaving groups that I want to research as I saw some of their weavings in different shops and galleries. </p> <p><font color="#0000ff" size="4">From there-Santa Fe</font>-I took a train  home-2 days of reading writing and sleeping and watching the world change from one eco system to another-one life to another. </p> <p>STOP 4, 3-weeks later</p> <p><font color="#ff00ff" size="5" face="Lucida Calligraphy">Cincinnati, Ohio</font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#ffffff">This was a  very anticipated teaching trip that had been planned years in advance.  Sometimes guilds schedule 2-3 years in advance and this was one of those. <font color="#9b00d3" size="4">Again,</font> I was teaching my “More” class, lecturing on designing tapestries and loving it. The lecture I gave for the guild is one of my favourite</font><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-sF2VW8dtfjk/U2wc98kJjnI/AAAAAAAAFaw/g9AVIloFXZA/s1600-h/IMG_06384.jpg"><font color="#ffffff"><img title="IMG_0638" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="IMG_0638" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-gb6LCXUlcNA/U2wc-bGa9bI/AAAAAAAAFa4/hG1V1IU6ZJk/IMG_0638_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="86" align="left" height="115" /></font></a><font color="#ffffff"> lectures to do because the skills involved can be used to plan any project-whether it be regular weaving, tapestry or even silver. Then emphasis is on the fact that there are no tapestry police and never dumb it down just because it might be difficult!</font></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#ffffff"><font color="#0000ff" size="4" face="Lucida Calligraphy">Best of all</font> I would be spending any spare time I had with my Good Friend Cathie Beckman and her husband Ed. </font></font></p> <p><font color="#ffffff" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">There were extra days planned around it for talking, sharing and site seeing. There were also very heavy rains, lightening storms, a wonderful bird feeder with crazy squirrels and not quite spring.</font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#ffffff">There were 16 or 17 people signed up for the class and many different levels of weaving skills.  The workshop was held in a beautiful old house that belongs to the Cincinnati Guild. The questions and wants of the class were exceptional and unique-never a boring minute. We covered optical blending, hatches and a dozen other things-just touching on soumack. The content</font><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-SGP_IssJl-4/U2wc-60k9KI/AAAAAAAAFbA/nRDFh2OLidw/s1600-h/DSC_02094.jpg"><font color="#ffffff"><img title="DSC_0209" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="DSC_0209" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-3v3hLx1vLd8/U2wc_hVTTEI/AAAAAAAAFbE/9rA2gjr__1Q/DSC_0209_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="100" align="right" height="149" /></font></a><font color="#ffffff"> of the class is determined by a questionnaire prior to the class and subject matter for the class is created from the questionnaires.  </font></font></p> <p><font color="#ffffff" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">I am <font color="#ff0000"><font size="5" face="Jokerman">excited </font>and </font><font size="5" face="Jokerman"><font color="#ff0000">will be even more</font> <font color="#ff0000">excited</font></font><font color="#ff0000"> </font>to see what comes out of the class in the next year.  It’s already in the plans for me to teach in 2015 or 2016. I have been asked back, but the date is still up in the air. The class will probably be Soumack and friends+more of More! One of the things that came out of all of the classes was the need for me have better or more support materials for eccentric weaving and more detailed notes for warping Mirrix looms my way. </font></p> <p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#ff0000" size="5">One last thing About the Cincinnati workshop-</font><font color="#ffffff"> To the person  in the corner with the short blond hair whose name escapes me that I was talking to in the class about Zentangles.  I apologize that I am so bad with names.  I can totally </font><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-pJLoTphIKyI/U2wc_5eAz0I/AAAAAAAAFbQ/1OydjsNQk_c/s1600-h/img0544.jpg"><font color="#ffffff"><img title="img054" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="img054" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-FyRfdoK7nt4/U2wdAji20bI/AAAAAAAAFbU/OKKvJjLZOAc/img054_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="92" align="right" height="89" /></font></a><font color="#ffffff">envision you what you were and our conversation, but not your name. This is the book that to be me always reminds me of Zentangles, but are drawn more from nature then Zentangles. It was edited by Christian Stoll and is a Dover book, which means it comes from a book that was published in 1906 so you should be able to use any of these designs with out worrying about copy right or needing special permission to use them.</font></font></p> <p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#0000ff" size="5" face="Lucida Handwriting">In the process of roaming</font> <font color="#ffffff">around the city of Cincinnati with Cathie B. and sometimes Ed, there was way</font><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-iYtPBrlkxYM/U2wdBW5_EvI/AAAAAAAAFbg/VrY1sicKqkM/s1600-h/IMG_04745.png"><font color="#ffffff"><img title="IMG_0474" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="IMG_0474" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-YCuFFDZJNDk/U2wdByIHFHI/AAAAAAAAFbk/6m1R49ZbOiE/IMG_0474_thumb8.png?imgmax=800" width="92" align="left" height="61" /></font></a><font color="#ffffff"> more then  one can see in a day or two. Two of the many places we went to really stood out to me.  We went to the </font><font color="#ff80ff" size="5">Taft Museum of Art.</font> <font color="#ffffff">We/I made some incredibly discoveries. One was Called the <u>Threads of H</u></font><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-ulPTIPKyH0o/U2wdCa3g57I/AAAAAAAAFbs/MZJGjfosybw/s1600-h/dragon-lay-out-as-woven3.jpg"><font color="#ffffff"><img title="dragon lay out as woven" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="dragon lay out as woven" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-NGiL7zSuLYk/U2wdC2IvJ0I/AAAAAAAAFb4/M_krtQMXJcM/dragon-lay-out-as-woven_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="99" align="right" height="244" /></font></a><font color="#ffffff"><u>eaven- Silken legacy of China’s last Dynasty</u>. The exhibit was probably a third tapestry-Dragon Robes, lesser</font><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-y9qWGsd4Af0/U2wdDYPtmeI/AAAAAAAAFcA/hTn0Gdkfoug/s1600-h/dragon-in-colour3.jpg"><font color="#ffffff"><img title="dragon in colour" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="dragon in colour" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-tQDcZ3qiEY4/U2wdD3WtWqI/AAAAAAAAFcE/mEJcEEIEVmQ/dragon-in-colour_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="85" align="left" height="244" /></font></a><font color="#ffffff"> robes and pockets, shoes and purses. I am still sorting out my notes that I eventually wrote in my journals. BUT, here is what I consider to be a remarkable, happy, serendipitous, curious find. It has both eccentric weaving, pick and pick and probably</font><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-LF8zihgj4xA/U2wdEV0FxaI/AAAAAAAAFcQ/Sui4kg2sl7Q/s1600-h/BW-dragon4.jpg"><img title="BW dragon" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="BW dragon" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-7jZbepNaITc/U2wdFCI6HvI/AAAAAAAAFcU/8zLYUnRlDPk/BW-dragon_thumb6.jpg?imgmax=800" width="197" height="244" /></a> <font color="#ffffff">eccentric pick and pick. AND, best of all the pieces had not been cut apart  from the way they had been woven initially and not cut apart. It allows one to see how they were actually woven and the fillers that were were used.  It’s a whole ensemble of accessories-fan cases, pockets, eye class case colour and various purses.</font></font></p> <p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-5JeGrW7T4cE/U2wdFoXvmaI/AAAAAAAAFcg/oaPOhfQ9RmA/s1600-h/adoration-of-the-magi4.jpg"><img title="adoration of the magi" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="adoration of the magi" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-A7cyFj91K0g/U2wdGRCD9iI/AAAAAAAAFck/qW9_DsT2ECQ/adoration-of-the-magi_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="189" align="left" height="201" /></a><font color="#ffffff">I</font><font color="#ffffff"> feel a little like a</font><font color="#ff0000" size="5"><font color="#ffffff"> </font>fair huckster</font><font color="#ffffff"> by saying—AND, if that is not enough there was a small devotional tapestry called the Adoration of the Magi woven in Brussels in the first qtr. of the 16th century. It is less then a square yard35 3/4 inches by 33 1/4 inches with wool silk and silver wefts at 24 epi. I have pages of weaving notes to sort out. Unfortunately,  it was in a space that was fairly dark and one wasn’t allowed to take pictures and it was mounted a little too high for some one as short as me. <font size="5">But,</font> it did open up another line of research for/and of  small</font> devotional tapestries. </font></p> <p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#9b00d3" size="5" face="Lucida Calligraphy">At the Cincinnati art Museum</font><font color="#ffffff"> there was an exhibit called <u>Genius and Grace-Francois Boucher and the generation of</u></font><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-EYYwT4AFmHo/U2wdG4ReHLI/AAAAAAAAFcs/XFe_-m_mGiE/s1600-h/Genius-and-Grace-cover4.jpg"><font color="#ffffff"><img title="Genius and Grace cover" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Genius and Grace cover" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-wHNzbIv37HA/U2wdHP3lrjI/AAAAAAAAFc0/ByXDkiuHwlk/Genius-and-Grace-cover_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="147" align="left" height="182" /></font></a><font color="#ffffff"><u> 1700.</u>Many of the drawings in this exhibit-Genius and Grace- were done by artist who often designed for tapestries of this period-Boucher, Fragonard, Coypel, Oudry and 29 other possible tapestry designers. By looking at the drawings you can see how they relate to the cartoons and tapestries that were being designed and woven in the 1700. The drawings are incredible to see close up. And made me want to pull out any books I might own on tapestries woven in the 1700’s.</font></font></p> <p> </p> <p><font color="#0000ff" size="6" face="Brush Script MT">And then again-</font>A Fabulous exhibit of Jewelry designed by Art Smith. Also part of this exhibit were pieces of jewelry by artist such as Calder. It was totally fascinating to me, but I am finally getting to the point that I can look a piece and have a small understanding of how it was done. </p> <p>From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith February 22, 2014 - May 18, 2014 Organized by the Brooklyn Museum of Art, this exhibition features 24 pieces of silver and gold jewelry created by African .... - See more at: <a href="http://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/explore/exhibitions/current-exhibitions#sthash.IsdAVDj8.dpuf">http://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/explore/exhibitions/current-exhibitions#sthash.IsdAVDj8.dpuf</a></p> <p><font size="6" face="Lucida Calligraphy"><font color="#ff0000">And</font>,<font color="#9b00d3"> on that note,</font></font></p> <p><font color="#9b00d3" size="6" face="Lucida Calligraphy">it’s time for me to finish </font></p> <p><font color="#9b00d3" size="6" face="Lucida Calligraphy">up and post this before it </font></p> <p><font color="#9b00d3" size="6" face="Lucida Calligraphy">gets any longer.</font></p> <p><font color="#9b00d3" size="6" face="Lucida Calligraphy"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-n0ZVMw9tRKg/U2wdHrL-vHI/AAAAAAAAFdA/VS_gUdT7onk/s1600-h/DSC_043710.jpg"><img title="DSC_0437" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="DSC_0437" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-QZiswAExWjM/U2wdIBUbCeI/AAAAAAAAFdE/hSIG2D-9oxU/DSC_0437_thumb7.jpg?imgmax=800" width="388" height="268" /></a></font></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09602511849713822619noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724368769805213.post-40715589107495558412014-05-08T17:07:00.001-07:002014-05-08T17:07:01.990-07:00Eccentrically yours-<p><font color="#0000ff" size="4" face="Lucida Calligraphy">I promised my class in Cincinnati that I would do some writing about eccentric weaving. So this is for you all.</font></p> <p> </p> <p><font color="#9b00d3" size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting">I am not fond of eccentric weaving for so many reasons.</font> Which is the reason that I have written very little <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-KAxSTqpl7ts/U2wbwjpKPeI/AAAAAAAAFPs/tLRdHGaFTKU/s1600-h/DSCN523824.jpg"><img title="DSCN5238" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN5238" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-PGGYmfvqsfE/U2wbxOswJSI/AAAAAAAAFPw/K3LRUxRsKIk/DSCN5238_thumb21.jpg?imgmax=800" width="157" align="left" height="121" /></a>about it in my different books. I will occasionally use it as a very fine eccentric pass if I want the texture of the long loopy look instead of a soumack line note light edges of rose. But, for the most part I find eccentric weaving not appropriate technically and or visually to my designs. I like my designs to lie flat and be the shape that that I create with straight edges<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-8pty2iTQ8L0/U2wbxuZ24BI/AAAAAAAAFP8/IJYSWELO5rw/s1600-h/eccentric-woven-shape3.jpg"><img title="eccentric woven shape" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="eccentric woven shape" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-5bwSdUiY3ZM/U2wbxztBsUI/AAAAAAAAFQA/1XBls_zijCM/eccentric-woven-shape_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" align="right" height="58" /></a>. I like to be in control. I never feel in control when I weave eccentrically. With those caveats here are my thoughts about eccentric weaving.</p> <p><font color="#ff0000" size="5" face="Brush Script MT">First a definition-</font> Eccentric weaving and Eccentric passes are woven areas or passes that run up, over and down another shape and then back. <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-6D9rm2DFpew/U2wbyfWuPoI/AAAAAAAAFQM/ulUNtLtR2Wk/s1600-h/img0384.jpg"><img title="img038" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="img038" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-bTtwhq83UCo/U2wby-TJ2kI/AAAAAAAAFQQ/ryGcHPu7KVs/img038_thumb6.jpg?imgmax=800" width="157" align="right" height="69" /></a>The wefts are not perpendicular to the warp, but move at an angle to the warp, thus they are called eccentric. </p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-mQVewaoRaeI/U2wbze5kzXI/AAAAAAAAFQc/urFHVImyNhU/s1600-h/img0405.jpg"><img title="img040" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="img040" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-6nrMT0Khz2A/U2wbz46fcHI/AAAAAAAAFQg/mVB40Pjt4UA/img040_thumb8.jpg?imgmax=800" width="69" align="left" height="80" /></a><font color="#0000ff" face="Lucida Calligraphy">It is not my favourite technique</font>-mainly because it is rarely done well-myself definitely included.<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-yNTOJVnPWyM/U2wb0Xl4JYI/AAAAAAAAFQs/HEmYGq1PJ3M/s1600-h/wedge-weave-sampler4.jpg"><img title="wedge weave sampler" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="wedge weave sampler" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-WEF8KgomxdQ/U2wb00Q0SaI/AAAAAAAAFQw/nyKUpYWgxsQ/wedge-weave-sampler_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="113" align="right" height="104" /></a> I have very few examp<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-aHpDqXF0a6c/U2wb1fsUPqI/AAAAAAAAFQ8/ii45zofWFqg/s1600-h/afhani-raised-medellions4.jpg"><img title="afhani raised medellions" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="afhani raised medellions" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Igxq2AZUrSQ/U2wb14E5NsI/AAAAAAAAFRA/ym2o-B792-s/afhani-raised-medellions_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="125" align="left" height="97" /></a>les of things I have woven eccentrically over the last 36 years. When it's not done well it creates all sorts of tensioning problems, warp distortion, blisters, scalloped edges and wedge weave like constructs. I wish that I had taken pictu<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-09kKnuruVEo/U2wb2adGFOI/AAAAAAAAFRM/_hXi1yN6f9g/s1600-h/eccentric-outlining-and-hatches4.jpg"><img title="eccentric outlining and hatches" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="eccentric outlining and hatches" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-hhb1udmQA2o/U2wb2iEPOoI/AAAAAAAAFRQ/M_D6GRXPh2o/eccentric-outlining-and-hatches_thum.jpg?imgmax=800" width="142" align="left" height="108" /></a>res of<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-GBn_Q1FQhOw/U2wb3GL7H8I/AAAAAAAAFRc/XqqQ5C9qHNo/s1600-h/eccentric-pick-and-pick5.jpg"><img title="eccentric pick and pick" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="eccentric pick and pick" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-UGHt9B45UR0/U2wb3kPw1VI/AAAAAAAAFRg/1CTVmJ_6ohg/eccentric-pick-and-pick_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="104" align="right" height="100" /></a> all of the eccentric weaving problems I have seen over the years. I am now looking for examples. These are a few of the ways of using it as raised medallions, a sampler of raised blisters and scalloped edges, Raised dots, zigzag edges, hills and valleys, raised dots, to outline an eye in smaller threads with eccen<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/--7ohETZxm70/U2wb4O4qXXI/AAAAAAAAFRs/eC07BaIzR_Y/s1600-h/eccentric-haalf-pass-and-eccentric-o.jpg"><img title="eccentric haalf pass and eccentric outlining" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="eccentric haalf pass and eccentric outlining" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-9mkUmHsLQ2c/U2wb4RcjdmI/AAAAAAAAFRw/7EwrAC35DXs/eccentric-haalf-pass-and-eccentric-o%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="164" align="left" height="69" /></a>tric hatches, <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-2un1HnnHYVw/U2wb4zzgOgI/AAAAAAAAFR8/MA5kbaFwyLo/s1600-h/chinese-half-pass-eccentric-and-gold%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img title="chinese half pass eccentric and gold" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="chinese half pass eccentric and gold" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-efUEsRZa2U8/U2wb5SlV1cI/AAAAAAAAFSA/JtJkHIhGznI/chinese-half-pass-eccentric-and-gold.jpg?imgmax=800" width="88" align="right" height="132" /></a>out <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-SpVrQjDTMI8/U2wb55turrI/AAAAAAAAFSM/b4OB3Iepfaw/s1600-h/DSCN52414.jpg"><img title="DSCN5241" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN5241" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-tT1Rl-Qcb4c/U2wb6XOk4OI/AAAAAAAAFSQ/iyes9EChYts/DSCN5241_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="128" align="left" height="99" /></a>lines a full <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-XqtnP6hHzmA/U2wb60YWyLI/AAAAAAAAFSc/pRF8fwf1Y5g/s1600-h/eccentric-outlining5.jpg"><img title="eccentric outlining" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="eccentric outlining" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-7BAOMM6KNnM/U2wb7XTcYkI/AAAAAAAAFSg/dMZrE0EugoE/eccentric-outlining_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="97" height="95" /></a>pass and half a pass, outlining flowers with silk and gold threads in kesi, eccentric pick and pick,  outlining wings and creating longer weft overs to change texture, just to name a very few. </p> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="421" border="4"><tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="413"><font color="#ff00ff" size="4" face="Jokerman">There are some great exceptions</font> of weavers who do it really well-Christine Laffer, Connie Lippert, Silvia Heyden, Michael Rhodee, Shelley Socolofsky( in her last piece-Trade…) to name a few and none of these are beginning weavers. All these weavers have a web presence so Google them or got to pinterest and take a look. What they can do is totally fascinating. </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p><font face="Chiller"><font size="7"><font color="#ff00ff"> </font><font color="#8000ff">For some reason</font></font></font> </p> <p><font size="3" face="Tahoma">eccentric weaving holds a fascination for beginning weavers who see<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-HtYTzwEvgYQ/U2wb7mpLSCI/AAAAAAAAFSs/vunySqznI3k/s1600-h/first-tapestry3.jpg"><img title="first tapestry" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="first tapestry" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-ZvrFO9h8bjA/U2wb8b_1XmI/AAAAAAAAFSw/lFDXfpVR534/first-tapestry_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="114" align="left" height="244" /></a>m to like the idea of the long pass that goes over anything in its path. Perhaps it’s just breaking out of the pattern and feels like it’s breaking the “rules.” Interestingly enough to me I found that I had even attempted it in my very first tapestry. What they don't understands is the inherent problems it can create. An advanced weaver who can control its eccentricities can create incr<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-lfm37ZUuaGI/U2wb8_j2myI/AAAAAAAAFS8/66IVK2d09as/s1600-h/coptic-mine6.jpg"><img title="coptic-mine" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="coptic-mine" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-NPTl7kd4bIg/U2wb9bZLn-I/AAAAAAAAFTA/U-ZDPlC9JwQ/coptic-mine_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800" width="158" align="right" height="186" /></a>edible shaped tapestries and 3-d weavings or even flat wedge weaves with scalloped edges and imbricated feather like shapes, shapes can used it produce. In Coptic, Turkish, Afghani and Navajo weavings eccentric passes can be used to produce blisters, raised  medallions and scalloped edges, and <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Bym4nJ8yL3c/U2wb9kYG2SI/AAAAAAAAFTM/UyVwCTkZfk0/s1600-h/img0408.jpg"><img title="img040" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="img040" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-6Gjeapp0rM0/U2wb-PFLrEI/AAAAAAAAFTU/bE6rzpuCAJo/img040_thumb9.jpg?imgmax=800" width="113" align="left" height="244" /></a>changes in weft structure. </font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Tahoma"><font color="#ff00ff" size="5" face="Lucida Calligraphy">Raised medallions</font> can be made by pulling the eccentric weave at the top and the bottom tighter,  but usually the act of beating down on the diamond shape in the middle is enough to pucker the center diamond by tightening the eccentric weaving. The Afghani medallions look flat but are actually blister and rise li<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-bAHmJw82EDk/U2wb-3rd9PI/AAAAAAAAFTc/2rTcNnGg7dQ/s1600-h/afhani-raised-medellions9.jpg"><img title="afhani raised medellions" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="afhani raised medellions" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-IHqoisRitCw/U2wb_cTsprI/AAAAAAAAFTg/V-ayDeRXXAU/afhani-raised-medellions_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800" width="156" align="right" height="121" /></a>ke small mountains in the center of the salmon pink shapes. At the bottom in the blue the dark dots with white centers are also puckered with eccentric weaving to make them rise a bit from the surface.</font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Tahoma"><font color="#ff00ff" size="5" face="Lucida Handwriting">Wedge weave</font> by using an eccentric line that is tighte<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-0f4mKO7fO-Q/U2wb_wjio3I/AAAAAAAAFTs/dGCuq8GSjOc/s1600-h/img0434.jpg"><img title="img043" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="img043" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-H7jxmUBd6RE/U2wcAZBzgiI/AAAAAAAAFTw/8-XVAMjvqK8/img043_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="64" align="right" height="93" /></a>r then the base weaving can also produce a scalloped edge<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Z5M0Z2eHgzw/U2wcAxY3qSI/AAAAAAAAFT8/11RSK3YzTsQ/s1600-h/diagram-wedge-weave4.jpg"><img title="diagram wedge weave" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="diagram wedge weave" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-dxF8OJO0skM/U2wcBYv3AHI/AAAAAAAAFUA/6E3pFGXc0mg/diagram-wedge-weave_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="67" align="left" height="78" /></a> on a tapestry. More complete directions for doing wedge weave are in The <u>Line and Tapestry</u> book that I wrote</font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Tahoma"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Tahoma"></font></p> <p><b><u><font color="#ff0000" size="7" face="Chiller">BUT, Unintentionally,</font></u></b></p> <p>Usually beginners come to eccentric weaving unintentionally. The problems can be caused by—</p> <p>A. using too little weft in the bubble over time in a given area or two much weft in another area that forces the warps closer together in another area</p> <p>B. unequal tension on the warps(loose tension sinks and tighter tension rises because it doesn’t pack down as well as the area of lesser tension</p> <p>C. turns that pull tighter or looser because when the weft turned around the warp it pulled the half pass it was weaving over tighter.</p> <p>D. by the way the weft is packed down or beaten unevenly in different places. </p> <p>E. as the fell line becomes more eccentric the weaver doesn’t correct and the problem or tries to correct it by filling in and pulling the top warps on the eccentric line together tighter because there isn’t enough weft . </p> <p>The passes along the fell line sink and or rise becoming a form of eccentric weaving as they follow the uneven fell line, OR If the problem isn’t dealt with overtime the problems increase and increase creating havoc as it begins to <font color="#ff0000" size="4">distort</font>. The warps becoming too close together, or too far apart, massive pull in and/or pullout that may or may not be close to where the original eccentrics are woven and you’re weaving at an angle.</p> <p><b><font color="#0000ff" size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting">So lets think about how eccentric weaving works.</font></b> In a perfect world one creates a base of valleys, hills, or an angle.<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-3AUlC3QzYXs/U2wcBta0meI/AAAAAAAAFUM/hDi9Ptqt8JM/s1600-h/eccentric-woven-shape7.jpg"><img title="eccentric woven shape" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="eccentric woven shape" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-rAUUsZeH1mc/U2wcCJr_WPI/AAAAAAAAFUQ/IWAx_kab3i0/eccentric-woven-shape_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" align="left" height="58" /></a> One just weaves across, over and down and continues on weaving- feeling in the valleys and creating more eccentric shapes. <font size="3" face="Lucida Handwriting">Sounds easy!</font> One does this and<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-aptFhJnJXo0/U2wcCqNLbGI/AAAAAAAAFUc/n1-k9M5E6hI/s1600-h/img0388.jpg"><img title="img038" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="img038" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-xTBswjlUZTE/U2wcDE5TcZI/AAAAAAAAFUg/tXKNbQwRKQc/img038_thumb7.jpg?imgmax=800" width="157" align="right" height="69" /></a> eventually strange things begin to happen-sides pull in for no apparent reason , warps begin to pull out of position or become too close together. The fell line does strange things-dips and rises no matter how hard you try to get it to weave perpendicularly to the warps and fell line. <font color="#9b00d3" size="4">To simplify</font> eccentric weaving can and will cause severe pull in and warp distortion. It’s what it does.   The only <font color="#9b00d3">possible correction</font> is to use a great deal more weft in the weft bundles then used on a normal fell line. If you’re using a 45 degree angle in your bubbles you may need to change that to 75 percent, but in the long run it still may not be enough. <br /><u></u></p> <p><u><font color="#ff0080" size="5" face="Brush Script MT">It basically breaks down to cause and effect.</font></u> </p> <p>If you don't have enough weft in the bubble and you weave on top of a <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-9WXGdqDeUo8/U2wcDfXtnFI/AAAAAAAAFUs/qInPZ1kDDzg/s1600-h/img0443.jpg"><img title="img044" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="img044" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-qnoVgiem4u4/U2wcEIECZmI/AAAAAAAAFUw/bODwMpdsRw4/img044_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="118" align="right" height="151" /></a>pass the weft has to pull weft from somewhere as weft is beaten down in to the valleys. It takes more weft to weave at an angled then on a straight fell line more the the normal 45 decree angle. </p> <p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-TTSA_drkxnw/U2wcEssSSnI/AAAAAAAAFU8/cz9tS3yRh-U/s1600-h/longer-loops-and-flow-of-lines4.jpg"><img title="longer loops and flow of lines" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="longer loops and flow of lines" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-PUiB-VCnExc/U2wcFOqDmvI/AAAAAAAAFVA/GtL7rS3X0Oc/longer-loops-and-flow-of-lines_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="124" align="left" height="104" /></a>Visually and structurally the further the weft travels  between warps the greater the weft length on the surface of the tapestry. <br />Which will automatically change the look and the hand of the tapestry.  Done in fairly large areas the hand of the fabric can be a great deal softer in the eccentric areas and stiffer in the non-eccentric areas.</p> <p>The eccentric area can create areas that will snag easier. The extra has to come from somewhere. If the extra weft isn't to be had it gathers up warp and fell line moving everything closer together. Perhaps, If you are experienced enuff to handle this you can control it and make it do what you want it to do and use it as a design element. If not you have a couple of major problems to deal with. <br /><font color="#0000ff" size="4" face="Lucida Calligraphy">So if you like the look of eccentric lines and shapes these are the possible solutions to making it look good. ---</font></p> <p>A. more weft in the bubble in  the passes.</p> <p>B. Try not to weave eccentric lines from side to side in one pass. Break up the pass into smaller passes. This will keep the distribution of the weft from being distorted quite so much and controlling smaller areas. </p> <p>C. use more bobbins that travel less distance along the eccentric fell line. It will still look like  single pass, put will have more give and be less likely to pull in at the very edges of the tapestry. Test the line by weaving a few passes on top of the eccentric pass and beat down. Watch for warp distortion and still use more weft in the bubble</p> <p>D. Instead of using an over and under passes, use dot or line soumack dependin<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-b-4qsbq6WTA/U2wcFjU3_AI/AAAAAAAAFVM/0Sula-byF1k/s1600-h/eccentric-soumack4.jpg"><img title="eccentric soumack" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="eccentric soumack" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-0mVKfhyxSeg/U2wcGGMxQCI/AAAAAAAAFVQ/c1WcQRU01q0/eccentric-soumack_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="132" align="left" height="102" /></a>g on the look you want. I would still put a break in the line of soumack every couple of inches just to give the line more give. Mostly this works because the soumack looping doesn't  move up and down the weft-or at least very little and generally the soumack loop only pulls the area around each loop or warp and the stays where put. You still need to make sure to use plenty of weft, because the greater the angle between soumack loops the more weft that is needed between the two warps and wraps. </p> <p>E. When all else fails twine and pull the edges out. If you’re in the middle of a piece and you don’t want to take it all out and start fresh before the problem occurred, you can sometimes weave the fell line as flat as possible by filling in. Twine all of the way across the tapestry. Pull out and tie the twining on each side and hopefully the twining will re-space the warps.(see Tapestry 101 page 97) </p> <p><font color="#ff0000" size="4" face="Lucida Calligraphy">Short Time solutions for moving and repositioning warps</font> as you weave eccentrically. These are also solutions that can be done slightly eccentrically and always a long a flat fell line to re-space warps.</p> <p>First trick-Where ever the warps are two tight add extra weft in the bubble then in the area where the warps are too far apart don’t use a bubble. The<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-hReJk4X3yiw/U2wcGdMqdFI/AAAAAAAAFVY/rIOYdgWCxH0/s1600-h/img0343.jpg"><img title="img034" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="img034" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-7MHiH10mz2k/U2wcGyD8eHI/AAAAAAAAFVg/E2vluCCKGMs/img034_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="320" height="99" /></a> extra weft will force the warps apart and move into the space where the warps are too far apart. Always do this sooner than later. It’s much easier to fix a problem as soon as you see it happening when it can be correct by one or two passes. </p> <p>Second trick- Whenever possible Fill in sinking areas as quickly as possible with short passes so passes don’t become eccentric and pull at the edges.<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Q7mbYEJ-AZ0/U2wcHdWhgyI/AAAAAAAAFVs/fmT7S65pX84/s1600-h/img0364.jpg"><img title="img036" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="img036" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Xf0oZgfT708/U2wcH5rAxEI/AAAAAAAAFV0/WAt_AwjdcTw/img036_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="336" height="123" /></a> </p> <p>3<sup>rd</sup> trick- Twining can be your friend. You can use it to respace warp or use it to pull out the sides of weaving to where they belong. Twining is a neutral shed like soumack. It doesn’t change the over and under pattern if you weave <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-_PAa02IBwMc/U2wcIsY-W-I/AAAAAAAAFV8/FHF59LN1NDU/s1600-h/img0354.jpg"><img title="img035" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="img035" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-H2SfLUzKH_w/U2wcJEY4FmI/AAAAAAAAFWA/VXo1yy2H8xw/img035_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="320" align="right" height="121" /></a>over it. No lice to deal with later!(Lice is a play on words about those little annoying white dots that sometimes appear when warps are accidently left exposed in the weaving process.) Twining can be picked out easily when the weaving is finished. </p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09602511849713822619noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724368769805213.post-84962265098057709452014-05-08T17:03:00.001-07:002014-05-08T17:03:22.997-07:00Threading the Mirrix my way and everyone “ new and sometimes not so new”seems to want to do eccentric weaving.<p><font color="#ff0000" size="5" face="Brush Script MT">The easiest, fastest, foolproof way to warp a mirrix loom.</font> </p> <p>1.<font size="4"> <font color="#0000ff"><strong>Forget everything you know</strong></font></font> about using the silver accessory  bars supplied by mirrix as warping accessories to warp around. They are too big to be practical with this method of warping. So you can save them for perhaps  a very dim very future time.</p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-IYKuLlMgj-c/U2wa-IwZXoI/AAAAAAAAFKc/Zd0Puc_YLMU/s1600-h/rods-and-shiska3.jpg"><img title="rods and shiska" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="rods and shiska" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-37mqVSW0GG4/U2wa-jb4nfI/AAAAAAAAFKg/tmqNRMfGvmA/rods-and-shiska_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="80" /></a></p> <p>(notice the size difference of mirrix silver bars, skewer and metal rod<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-LdZFZeubgAw/U2wa_Bm1kOI/AAAAAAAAFKs/SDPTZkeQzXM/s1600-h/6-inch-thing-on-all-screw3.jpg"><img title="6 inch thing on all screw" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="6 inch thing on all screw" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-mQQFfXaB62E/U2wa_nnXVsI/AAAAAAAAFKw/N8PeV3AFPeU/6-inch-thing-on-all-screw_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="76" align="right" height="244" /></a>)</p> <p>2. Normally this would be done before any weaving or warp is on the loom, but all my looms already had weavings started. So just pretend a bit. Set the loom up so there is at least  6 inches of all thread above the wingnuts on the sides. You won’t be able to see this 6 inches because they are<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Ouk5bJ29WsQ/U2wbAC2GxQI/AAAAAAAAFK8/Mjo5rAeGpWk/s1600-h/measuring-side-and-small-upshift-in-.jpg"><img title="measuring side and small upshift in center" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="measuring side and small upshift in center" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-fEJB4_Ied44/U2wbAhWBNjI/AAAAAAAAFLA/DvK1dWzKq7Q/measuring-side-and-small-upshift-in-%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="160" align="left" height="142" /></a> inside  the copper bar tube.Measure the distance on the all thread to make sure the distance is equal on each side of the loom.   </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>3. Remove heddle  bar to be reattached at a later time.<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-P-nUTaJ3XkM/U2wbBGxsJQI/AAAAAAAAFLM/lv1MPWMbuBE/s1600-h/mirrix-without-heddle-bar5.jpg"><img title="mirrix without heddle bar" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="mirrix without heddle bar" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Hrp2h6Mt3EU/U2wbBrJGxtI/AAAAAAAAFLQ/KXBCRPqveyo/mirrix-without-heddle-bar_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="107" align="left" height="126" /></a> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>4<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-jKpZWUKElDE/U2wbCN8Z5bI/AAAAAAAAFLc/3K_xe_gGbio/s1600-h/DSCN52054.jpg"><img title="DSCN5205" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN5205" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-5sgF4HAZato/U2wbCvE2uvI/AAAAAAAAFLg/41LmveRgJes/DSCN5205_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="134" align="left" height="104" /></a>. <font color="#0000ff">Optional-</font> Place blue tape either across the front of the beam or the inside of the beam marked off in .5 <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-1Az0MUZ4MoA/U2wbDbPPt5I/AAAAAAAAFLs/TSiWRrHb1A8/s1600-h/DSCN52035.jpg"><img title="DSCN5203" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN5203" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-5uTGREmb2Jc/U2wbD39PMjI/AAAAAAAAFL0/WqrJa-YGHA4/DSCN5203_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="125" align="right" height="100" /></a>or 1 inch.This helps with the spacing of the warp threads as you wrap the warp and helps keep the turns perpendicular.  Either placement of the tape is correct depending on if you are using a bottom spring or no bottom spring. note blue tape on center inside beam and on outside  of beam under beginning of tapestry</p> <p>5.  Tie off a warp ball  or spool of warp at one side of the loom at the bottom or top. The knot will basically hang out in the middle of the beam. Circle around the loom being careful to place each  warp in the proper slot o<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-jNVhFIFIoSg/U2wbEQB4G4I/AAAAAAAAFL8/vMNMw1P0lUE/s1600-h/DSCN51975.jpg"><img title="DSCN5197" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN5197" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-WjOCEEqawqA/U2wbE5hyjnI/AAAAAAAAFMA/tYHfJtBZWYE/DSCN5197_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="115" align="right" height="160" /></a>f the spring at the top and the bottom(Bottom spring is optional. Just be careful if your not using a bottom spring not to cross the  warps as you go around the bottom beam.)  Circle the two beams of the loom continually until the allotted width is <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-HmuITFQYZ9g/U2wbFZ9buSI/AAAAAAAAFMM/jZB1sTU5D3A/s1600-h/circular-warping-on-a-mirrix3.jpg"><img title="circular warping on a mirrix" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="circular warping on a mirrix" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-sRgEUwqHMkQ/U2wbF_BNIvI/AAAAAAAAFMQ/5NTy7wtz4wY/circular-warping-on-a-mirrix_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="69" align="left" height="244" /></a>wrapped or warped. It’s really important that when doing the circular warping that you put things-Warps- side by side and don’t cross the warps. Tie off warp either at the top or bottom beam. That warp and knot also will hang out in the middle of the beam. Both of these warps on each side are not woven on. They can be used to check spacing and pull-in or pull out. (For later-The main importance  or job of these two warps is for tying on and off if you are going to weave a larger tapestry that can be pulled around the bar as you go. What this means is your not stuck with a static fell line. The fell line and the tapestry can be lowered and moved around the beam allowing you to weave a greater distance and larger pieces on a smaller loom.) Even if you don’t turn the warp around the beam since they like to hang out in the middle they can distort  or curl the edges of your weaving as they try to escape the weaving in back to being in the middle of the beam if they are woven on or in. </p> <p>6. Tighten up the warp a bit on both sides to begin to tension the warp and also make it more difficult for the individual warps to move around as you finishing finish warping and placing the heddles</p> <p>7. Now that you’ve warped the loom in a circular fashion, it is the time to put the heddle bar back in place.  Heddle rods that the heddles attach  should be on the top and the bottom-not in the middle. <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-AD1V48EddTg/U2wbGXDCs-I/AAAAAAAAFMc/oXmLfjVDLTU/s1600-h/DSCN52075.jpg"><img title="DSCN5207" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="DSCN5207" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-eu5yir0IGtk/U2wbGwiqMyI/AAAAAAAAFMg/itTkEa0iTbw/DSCN5207_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="164" height="129" /></a></p> <p>8. Put metal bar through spring to hold warps in place on top spring and bottom spring if you have using an optional a bottom spring. </p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-ztCemZtXw94/U2wbHP1irKI/AAAAAAAAFMs/qbtrlJZGolc/s1600-h/bar-inside-top-spring4.jpg"><img title="bar inside top spring" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="bar inside top spring" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-C7DbefbkNQU/U2wbHgIvn6I/AAAAAAAAFM0/8VL9G9VnlMA/bar-inside-top-spring_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="103" height="156" /></a></p> <p>9. I like to use texsolv heddles. They are reusable and I am one of thos<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-NEELBtgzTu4/U2wbIQ5Db9I/AAAAAAAAFM8/T53NIpvks1Y/s1600-h/texsolv-heddle5.jpg"><img title="texsolv heddle" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="texsolv heddle" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-ecA3OK8ZzqI/U2wbI5Dbj9I/AAAAAAAAFNA/ItKHY03-WUQ/texsolv-heddle_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="123" align="right" height="119" /></a>e persons who can never consistently tie square or granny knots. Texsolv heddles just saves a lot of time, energy and tears. Unless, of course you are one of Gods gifted and can always be consistent then feel free to take the time to create a jig and tie the heddles. To me the extra cost is well worth the saved time and effort of tying the heddles. </p> <p>10. Heddles should be folded in half, partially encircle not completely circle the warp and both end loops should be pierced by the heddle bar.It’s nice to get the ends of the heddles close to the rod not the center Then later you don’t have to worry about those ends tangling with warp  or their being to near their brethren warps and not shedding properly. </p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-zASlnZkkiv8/U2wbJEd3GeI/AAAAAAAAFNM/4NaE17Clzqo/s1600-h/heddle-placement-at-top-and4.jpg"><img title="heddle placement at top and" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="heddle placement at top and" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-PymOypEX9M8/U2wbJqesR7I/AAAAAAAAFNQ/jBgNUoGMb6o/heddle-placement-at-top-and_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="181" align="left" height="104" /></a></p> <p>11. Carefully, place heddles on every other warp. Double check constantly. One off and the rest are going to be off and twisting in to the wrong sheds when you try to use them. <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-gU3YefmzTYg/U2wbKAFirHI/AAAAAAAAFNc/DRS08-SxLNI/s1600-h/heddles-split-in-center4.jpg"><img title="heddles split in center" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="heddles split in center" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-6qBvcHWzSIM/U2wbKkvdNrI/AAAAAAAAFNg/p5HMzo5LBGo/heddles-split-in-center_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="139" align="right" height="108" /></a> When you get to the middle be very careful about where half is. Make sure the heddles will pull at a 90 decree angle-continue until complete. </p> <p> </p> <p>12.  This is where a really common error occurs and can really narrow the sheds-<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-1L4a4iiFrLk/U2wbK240HyI/AAAAAAAAFNs/IZ3Ip36xm30/s1600-h/best-bar-hangout-pic4.jpg"><img title="best bar hangout pic" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="best bar hangout pic" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-LKTZvn9sqn4/U2wbLtcMY0I/AAAAAAAAFNw/CKs4mRrxqME/best-bar-hangout-pic_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="98" align="left" height="78" /></a>reducing them to nothing.  Be very careful that the rod d<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-ss0-5KKcDKQ/U2wbMOKJuOI/AAAAAAAAFN8/Qy1zdV3hPAE/s1600-h/where-the-edges-of-bars-should-be4.jpg"><img title="where the edges of bars should be" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="where the edges of bars should be" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-XajomhFe08U/U2wbMq8yaQI/AAAAAAAAFOA/-9IKovH11HU/where-the-edges-of-bars-should-be_th.jpg?imgmax=800" width="123" align="right" height="89" /></a>doesn't go past the hole and catch  on the heddle bar brace when turned. Tighten all the end screws with the hex wrench. Note the difference in the two photos. You shouldn’t be able to see the rod end.</p> <p> </p> <p>13. Do the bottom roll of heddles. Be very careful that your doing the other half of the warps and every other warp. Only one warp thread allowed per heddle. Again when you reach the middle make sure the heddles split on the half way mark at a 90 decree angle. This might be a good time to see if half way is matching up on both bars. There is a very good  reason for this.  You don’t want to create a gap in the heddles in the middle or have the heddles pulling across other heddles when you shift the shed. hat little doohickey in the middle that the rod goes through can split the wefts and warps apart creating crossed heddles between the two sets of heddles or pull them in such away to create a gap between warps as you weave. </p> <p>14. <font color="#9b00d3" size="4">And to repeat-again!</font> Be careful where the rod begins and ends when you tighten the h<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-_h5rN5GzM4o/U2wbNFAQ_PI/AAAAAAAAFOM/qy2FcJAMlsI/s1600-h/bar-conflict-to-far-out4.jpg"><img title="bar conflict to far out" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="bar conflict to far out" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-emYrteslkpk/U2wbNk0ydyI/AAAAAAAAFOU/bIjPS7YmIDo/bar-conflict-to-far-out_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="139" align="left" height="89" /></a>ex bolt. This  is where a really common error occurs and can really narrow the sheds.  Be very careful that the rod doesn’t go past the hole and catch  on the heddle brace when turned. Tighten all the end screws with the hex wrench. (see photos on 12)</p> <p> </p> <p>15. Cut a weft 4 times the width of the loom or weaving area. Weave across. Open first shed and place weft in open shed. Close Shed. Change shed and weave across-Do this 3 times to partially begin to keep and space warps in <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-jp13pRKP8xM/U2wbOBUDpgI/AAAAAAAAFOc/YycSqm_wDZg/s1600-h/DSCN52204.jpg"><img title="DSCN5220" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN5220" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-0WRN628F1Ow/U2wbOroo3UI/AAAAAAAAFOg/oMGdVq3QvHI/DSCN5220_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="191" align="left" height="147" /></a>place. </p> <p>16. Place a small metal rod or shiska skewer(bamboo or metal) in the next shed. I clip off the pointed ends of the skewer if there are any. Also<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-ZmZL-i-EgWw/U2wbO3g01iI/AAAAAAAAFOs/_WjeClKoptU/s1600-h/rods-and-shiska9.jpg"><img title="rods and shiska" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="rods and shiska" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-z1TU-MnntK4/U2wbPUfIPtI/AAAAAAAAFOw/GiWAkzEhurA/rods-and-shiska_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800" width="111" align="right" height="45" /></a> if your using metal bars use small ones no bigger then the ones that go through the springs. If  the rod is too large it’s almost impossible to get the two sheds to come together when you begin to weave and twine. These metal rods can be purchased at a machine shop and cost a dollar or two and last forever. Usually you can buy them the right length off the shelf or have them clipped for free to the right size. Bamboo shiska’s can be purchased at almost any super market for very little.  If I am more likely to turn the piece around the loom as I weave or place another in the opposite shed. One caveat if you are turning the piece around the loom make sure they will fit between the legs of the loom when turned. Beat down as tightly as possible  to the bar. There will be some spring up for about a half inch of weaving up-note center of weaving.</p> <p>17. Do several more rows of weaving to help set the sheds smaller then then the rod or skewer.</p> <p>Note the order of weaving a couple of rows of weaving(Blue and green), skewer, at least two passes and then the twining and knotting  to the exact size of the weaving</p> <p> </p> <p>18. Cut a piece of warp 3 times the width of the weaving surface. Larks head to the second warp on each side ignoring the warp that is hanging out in the middle on each side. Twine across the rows of weaving. At exactly the width of the weaving tie a knot. Do this even if it is to wide or too small. You should know before starting how many warps there are to an an inch and how wide<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-8PmY8WbcaYk/U2wbP20Ne3I/AAAAAAAAFO8/mXzmlQVDkdg/s1600-h/twining-fell-line-copy3.jpg"><img title="twining-fell line copy" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="twining-fell line copy" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-yHIIw_et5Ss/U2wbQUfQi1I/AAAAAAAAFPA/Hp-vfvzWf0Q/twining-fell-line-copy_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" align="left" height="107" /></a> the piece will be. So if a piece is 10 inches wide and you are working at 10 epi you have 100 warps. </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>19. Now space the warps with a proper pointy tool  into the proper position. The twining and knot will keep the proper width and the warps can be manipulated into place if necessary as you space the warps.  You are less likely to need to much spacing if you use a bottom spring. My bottom springs are not glued to the mirrix frame but tied in place so I can shift them around the bar as I turn the piece. </p> <p>20.<font color="#ff0000" size="4"> If tension feels uneven or even</font> if it doesn’t over tighten the warp tighter then you can possibly weave. Make sure you tighten the wing nuts on the side the same distance.  Please use the mirrix wrench to do this.<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-S7g1k5u1aZc/U2wbQ8W8UdI/AAAAAAAAFPM/5xITw3iC5uk/s1600-h/wrench-mirrix3.jpg"><img title="wrench mirrix" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="wrench mirrix" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Qmm83qQ9mN0/U2wbReWG2gI/AAAAAAAAFPQ/j2aZPw0T0r4/wrench-mirrix_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" align="left" height="75" /></a> Yeah, that funny looking flat thing that comes with the loom is an incredible wrench. Looks odd,  but nothing works better and it saves the hands and fingers… After a few hours loosen to a good tension for weaving. Check to make<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-MGvQ6CAhsoo/U2wbR9yP9sI/AAAAAAAAFPc/aHt-4rwmrCo/s1600-h/DSCN52059.jpg"><img title="DSCN5205" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="DSCN5205" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-ySRet23XSJU/U2wbSWkNbfI/AAAAAAAAFPg/fxqKvP8oIak/DSCN5205_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800" width="110" align="right" height="85" /></a> sure everything is square and equal.Same distance on both sides between the top and bottom  cross beams.  Remember  the warp should sound like a musical instrument and not displace when strummed. Generally the tighter the warp the easier it is to weave with fewer problems.  </p> <p><font color="#ff00ff" size="5" face="Jokerman">21. Sew on your cartoon and weave!</font></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09602511849713822619noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724368769805213.post-86717032541118363182014-02-14T18:04:00.001-08:002014-02-15T12:55:24.554-08:00Nonce Words.Nonce season. 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<span style="font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: x-large;">Winter</span> is always odd for me an almost un real period-Things done, but not repeatable or even wanting to be repeated. A period of waiting for the reality and often much milling around. Many things get done.Many goals are accomplished, but not the ones that make one feel like one has accomplished something or are-at least moving towards a p<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-wL76AP7Qjf8/Uv7KueUr08I/AAAAAAAAFEE/8FihNeoaUq0/s1600-h/20120407194214%252521Jabberwocky%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="20120407194214!Jabberwocky" border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-hYwAK5QeH3o/Uv7KvOZz_ZI/AAAAAAAAFEM/NcWXVSvF2mc/20120407194214%252521Jabberwocky_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" height="244" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="20120407194214!Jabberwocky" width="165" /></a>articular goal.Things feel/are so disjointed <span style="color: #9b00d3; font-size: large;">My next pieces</span>- actually two pieces of both of my Grandmothers. <span style="color: red; font-size: large;">AND,</span> no, it’s not seasonal light disorder thingy, because I am a true <b>pluviophile</b>. <br />
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The images I want to weave are just out of reach. Milling around –waiting, elusive, a pile of images, nightmares, dreams, drawings and things, floating looking for an anchor point in the design. At this point it all seems to be in a language not my own and It’s all jabberwocky speak…It seems.<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-se5eXkVG0xs/Uv7KvpYCamI/AAAAAAAAFEU/9F5Gsoea7OY/s1600-h/DSCN1403%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSCN1403" border="0" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-vjy4rpT1CZo/Uv7KwOHg_5I/AAAAAAAAFEY/h7MhVs_AZlo/DSCN1403_thumb%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="244" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1403" width="228" /></a><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: large;">Dad’s piece almost finished.</span>Will be done by tomorrow so I can take it on my travels.<br />
<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Jokerman; font-size: x-large;">AND-</span> I leave next week to <br />
teach in Sedona, AZ.<span style="font-family: Jokerman; font-size: x-large;"> <span style="color: magenta;">AND, I</span></span> will get to spend a couple of days with my friend Diane Kennedy just looking at stuff, visiting and perhaps a bit of weaving. I will definitely make it over to Santa Fe for a day or so. I am returning by train. The snow should be beautiful in the Mountains. I am so ready for a break and so tired of waiting for the other shoe to fall. It’s all so tax season. Spencer works from 8AM to 9PM+ during peak times. He did remember I was alive to day. I found a huge bouquet of flowers on my door step. Doesn't get better then that on Valentines Day. The smell is incredible and best of all doesn’t smell like construction smells.<br />
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<span style="color: #ff0080; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: large;">Two amazing Things</span>-Hellebore's and Pansies- that don’t realize that they were just covered with 18-24 inches of snow and ice. <br />
<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-uGC-C9xx7Sw/Uv7KyyU2UfI/AAAAAAAAFE8/DAXswQwB8mQ/s1600-h/img013%25255B12%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="img013" border="0" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-yKgqG-HwUYw/Uv7KzEik9bI/AAAAAAAAFFE/LuaaAW6UhjA/img013_thumb%25255B10%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="84" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="img013" width="89" /></a><span style="color: red; font-family: French Script MT; font-size: x-large;">Fortunately and Sometimes unfortunately,</span> everything(time included)else is moving on. The house is almost insulated-what can be done from the inside. We decided after the freaking cold Nov. and Dec that it would probably be a good idea. Of course, not counting on a<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-COrFZnicVyk/Uv7Kzjyi46I/AAAAAAAAFFU/JhsbS672tr8/s1600-h/DSCN1398%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSCN1398" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-5q64n1RKny4/Uv7K0NbVrsI/AAAAAAAAFFY/ZrAzt0afdYo/DSCN1398_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="84" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1398" width="108" /></a> snow and ice storm that made it virtually impossible to work outside.Anything that can be insulated from inside was finished yesterday. The outside blow-in of insulation has been started and stopped-2/3rds- because of heavy snow fall, ice and now really heavy rains-almost here.<span style="color: red;"> MORE! </span>Added <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-mGRs7i8NHfk/Uv7K0hOIVGI/AAAAAAAAFFk/3f0iPPxTTk4/s1600-h/photo%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="photo" border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Qmz_0idqklY/Uv7K1OsHZuI/AAAAAAAAFFo/l_ROAJ2jrcs/photo_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="102" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="photo" width="133" /></a>hours because the snow and ice pulled off the eaves troughs. Of course, that’s what happens when a house is built with square nails and no screws in the 1880’s. I have learned more about<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-AL7pXSDcLsQ/Uv7K1TOtRGI/AAAAAAAAFFw/3pxjMP-aJoY/s1600-h/photo%25255B26%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="photo" border="0" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-aTOKwr43gVA/Uv7K2P5gCkI/AAAAAAAAFF0/5Vg4wLg4QN4/photo_thumb%25255B16%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="122" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; src: "file:///C:/Users/kathe/AppData/Local/Temp/WindowsLiveWriter1286139640/supfiles79EB1F8/photo%5B5%5D.JPG";" title="photo" width="159" /></a> construction then I ever wish to know-especially antique vs. new construction. These pictures were taken before the next 8 inches fell. <br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: large;">It’s definitely time for a break-</span> The first one happens next week. I will be teaching in <br />
Sedona, AZ. After the workshop I’ll be around the area and will then visit with friends in Santa Fe and other places. My itinerary and schedule will be rather freeform and very loose.<br />
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<tr> <td valign="top" width="475">My lecture “The life and times of me myself and I”-will be after the Verde Valley Weavers meeting <a href="http://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/">on February 20, 2014</a>. At St. Andrews Episcopal church, located at <a href="http://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/">100 Arroyo Pinion Dr. in Sedona, AZ.</a> Meeting starts <a href="http://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/">at 10:00 AM</a> and should be over by <a href="http://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/">11:00</a>. With warping looms after lunch, then come back to the church to warp our looms the next three days will be My Tapestry workshop <span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Jokerman; font-size: large;">More!</span> starting <a href="http://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/">at 9:30 AM</a>. If you need instructions or would like to join the class to either of these places, please call <a href="tel:928-639-2781">928-639-2781</a>.</td> </tr>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: x-large;">Another break</span> I will be taking will be teaching in Cincinnati and the class has been opened up for registration of non-guild members.Around the last of March I will be teaching my<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Jokerman; font-size: large;"> More!</span> workshop in Cincinnati. It’s one of my favourite classes to teach because it builds on what the student knows technically and how to use those skills and add to those skills to create complexity and detail to their designs. That class has now been opened up to people outside the guild to register. There are only a couple of spaces left. I will also be giving a presentation called “The life and times of Me, Myself and I.” It includes a portion on my design process. <br />
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Workshop-<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Jokerman; font-size: medium;">MORE!</span> April 3-5, 2014 More is about taking beginning tapestry techniques, or not so beginning to the next level and discipline the technique achieve the effects you want in your design.Class covers bobbin blending, hachures, hatching, soumack, combining all of the techniques together as needed, a little design and many other techniques and techniques that the participants would like to focus on. If your interested in taking the workshop contact-Cheryl Muckenfuss; e-mail <a href="mailto:spin.weave.cheryl@gmail.com">spin.weave.cheryl@gmail.com</a> or myself.</td> </tr>
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<span style="color: #800040; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: x-large;"> One more thing- before </span><br />
<span style="color: #800040; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: x-large;">I get to </span><br />
<span style="color: #800040; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: x-large;">the tapestry techie stuff!</span><br />
<span style="color: #800040; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: small;">I love Tapestry history. One of things that rarely <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-6l3KImYts20/Uv7K2X0R3ZI/AAAAAAAAFGA/L9NzGu4EI_0/s1600-h/IMG_0852%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="IMG_0852" border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-_dnAWYj5XXM/Uv7K2-kcysI/AAAAAAAAFGI/0FmdtJCz54o/IMG_0852_thumb%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="153" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0852" width="120" /></a>happens is for someone to write on historical technique or tools or there usage.<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-_0hdbeBX5kE/Uv7K3ZIOVHI/AAAAAAAAFGU/2pLrK273Hu8/s1600-h/IMG_0853%25255B3%25255D.png"><img align="right" alt="IMG_0853" border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-6Ck4EXgAzFM/Uv7K3yAw62I/AAAAAAAAFGY/rkPAIgZ82M4/IMG_0853_thumb%25255B1%25255D.png?imgmax=800" height="128" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0853" width="166" /></a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Lucida Handwriting;"><span style="color: #800040;"> This is a very interesting article on the history of bobbins and how they are used. The Cover was borrowed from an outline of one of my tapestry. The article is well illustrated with many historical examples and less historical pictures of my using bobbins on my tapestry And He…I was extremely pleased to be able to supply a bit of information on contemporary usage of bobbins. It’s a fascinating article and the research that MS. Nutz has done to produce the article make it well worth reading. IF your interested in reading the article and having trouble finding it let me know and we can work. Something out. </span> <br />(</span><span style="font-family: Aharoni; font-size: xx-small;">There will eventually be a url to the article, but it’s beyond my capabilities. So Pat graciously agreed to help me figure it out tomorrow.)</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Handling slits. Decisions that can really be tough in Tapestry</span>.</span><br />
Consideration What am I willing to tolerate? <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-GdOPndai2UY/Uv7K4WG81pI/AAAAAAAAFGk/to_CFPczP7E/s1600-h/toothing%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="toothing" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Yctc6vCDqcI/Uv7K42yqACI/AAAAAAAAFGo/2xPx3gtkPX4/toothing_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" height="244" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="toothing" width="87" /></a>How do I want to handle a slit-toothed, stair-stepped or smooth?The handling or weaving is the easy part, but design wise there are a lot of choices one needs to make-especially when weaving small format small scale work.On a large format tapestry viewers stand far enough away from the tapestry that your brain will perseverate and basically see what it thinks it should see. In the case of slits the toothing that runs between the two join<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-6-DTXjKe5v8/Uv7K5KtUM9I/AAAAAAAAFGw/usMkkun9-P4/s1600-h/multiple%252520joins-sampler%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="multiple joins-sampler" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-rk8kMIfqywY/Uv7K5ux_ddI/AAAAAAAAFG4/y2INdhTK2l0/multiple%252520joins-sampler_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" height="181" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="multiple joins-sampler" width="244" /></a>need sides of the slit will be seen as a smooth line simply blending one tooth into another because your brain is insistent on seeing what it wishes to see in redundant repetitious things. Trouble is with small format’'/small scale work people just stand to close to examine the work. This may or may not be a thing that is related to optical blending- The reason a chene will blend into one colour instead of many. This is one of those things that drives me bonkers. Traditionally when you wanted to get rid of long slits the design was turned sideways so that <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-UFy2kRQMnsI/Uv7K6A4_fII/AAAAAAAAFHA/JlwC43HpQhI/s1600-h/dragon%252520toothed%252520join%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="dragon toothed join" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-5vgSkDbepjk/Uv7K6xxWCbI/AAAAAAAAFHE/WG-v6uzSS1Y/dragon%252520toothed%252520join_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="171" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="dragon toothed join" width="168" /></a>major slits would not happen, but most would fall between or along the fell line or verge. Well-maybe in a perfect world, but it never seems to happen with my designs major slits run both directions in almost all of my tapestries. So, it usually breaks down to which direction to I prefer<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-DTEAeLy3vcA/Uv7K7X5sd0I/AAAAAAAAFHQ/kK0p0TMMHOc/s1600-h/eagle-pulled%252520slits-feathers%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="eagle-pulled slits-feathers" border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-hgOYFEatrAw/Uv7K7wRAcDI/AAAAAAAAFHc/reV2eJsnfjw/eagle-pulled%252520slits-feathers_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="129" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="eagle-pulled slits-feathers" width="154" /></a> to work the design and how can I manipulate it to my advantage- Note the dark toothed line used as an outline in the dragons head. Or the pulled slits to create shadows and textures in the eagles.<br />
I<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-b2Qd6WVTjQQ/Uv7K8rzTgeI/AAAAAAAAFHg/xSDt1ESAkQ8/s1600-h/IMG_0921_edited-1%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="IMG_0921_edited-1" border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-hGlZIok8maY/Uv7K89rkojI/AAAAAAAAFHo/vzt_XRkE0w0/IMG_0921_edited-1_thumb%25255B10%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="153" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0921_edited-1" width="130" /></a>Possible traditional reason for sewing slits on the other hand the top bar shows another reason you might not want to stitch, but perhaps as likely just a weaves choice. Not the toothing on the top bolt and the unsewn edge on the bottom bolt. Note single line of sewn wrap on eagles bill and the toothed joins where the yellow and red come together on the neck. <br />
There are a lot of things you can do with slits. They can be overlapped. Silvia Hayden's works has great<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-LkDhws7vV-s/Uv7K9ZQQCbI/AAAAAAAAFH0/FNMAqA4xCa0/s1600-h/eaggles%25252C%252520face%252520with%252520cross%252520over%252520sttiching%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="eaggles, face with cross over sttiching" border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-WTene-pm3ww/Uv7K96CIFEI/AAAAAAAAFH4/xk7pfu6ANa8/eaggles%25252C%252520face%252520with%252520cross%252520over%252520sttiching_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="131" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="eaggles, face with cross over sttiching" width="170" /></a> examples of that or they can be pulled. I dislike sewing slits because they always seem to eventually show or work their way to the surface even though I have some very good ways to sew slits. <br />
<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-sBU-BEqN6-o/Uv7K-QPlqhI/AAAAAAAAFIE/gEuY2bC0_1c/s1600-h/img014%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="img014" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-o9yZbOpSbvs/Uv7K-_2etGI/AAAAAAAAFII/gfQl5hbWX7g/img014_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="197" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="img014" width="178" /></a><br />
<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/--6gFVPzQv8I/Uv7K_Yf1p4I/AAAAAAAAFIU/9Y-LRJJpgHo/s1600-h/right%252520side%252520of%252520truck%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="right side of truck" border="0" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-omxOJ1B0X2M/Uv7K_3b5aeI/AAAAAAAAFIc/y3E7btexgS0/right%252520side%252520of%252520truck_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="125" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="right side of truck" width="156" /></a><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: large;">So Why is this on my mind?</span> I always have a critique of my finished weaving and things that I might have, could have, or should have done better. <span style="color: red;">Basically,</span> about deciding if I like what I did or will I change my approach on the next piece. <br />
On my Dad’s piece I had 3 major areas of slits or not having slits and lots of areas where I need to determine how to to treat the edge of a slit as a structural design element. <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-3mQRa5kAZLw/Uv7LBSPeSPI/AAAAAAAAFIk/LP4bk6uPlkQ/s1600-h/DSCN1404%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN1404" border="0" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-H1aoe9EHnM0/Uv7LB-s_xII/AAAAAAAAFIo/gN9dJYex03w/DSCN1404_thumb%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="158" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1404" width="172" /></a><br />
So the determining factors in the direction that I wove this tapestry were the trestle itself and the feather quills.-Which direction would any stair stepping be less noticeable. <span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">And,</span> of Course the uprights on the truck cab-but less so.<br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: x-large;">Things to be aware of when weaving long slits-</span><br />
1. first and foremost for me is the toothing and stair-stepping. IT determines whether I sew,which joins I use and the detail of the techniques used around the slit.-Laced edge pulled edge, overlapped edge, fine line between slits(sewn with a contrasting colour for fine line or left open to create a shadow, toothed joins or which joins to use. <br />
2. Long slits can distort and stretch the warp with over use. The buckle is caused by the stretching and when it stretches one can get more passes in a given area that won’t shrink back as the stretching lessens over time. This use can make the slit longer then the area around it. So it buckles the tapestry in the area between two slits.<br />
3.Occasionally the slit edges will roll along the edge of the slit. When ever possible make the edge of the slit on a valley thread. <br />
Not always possible. And/or change the direction the weft is traveling every .5 inches or less depending on the warp sett. It’s just a pigtail loop to the the other side, pigtail and take off weaving in the opposite direction.<br />
4. The turns even when weaving way above the normal fell line should be exactly half of the distance between the two warps.So that they won’t distort the line of the slit . <br />
5. Measure the width constantly and correct as soon as possible- if a problem is starting.. In long slitted areas. It’s very easy to begin to use too big of a bubble or not a enough bubble. Watch that the fell line doesn’t curve up or down. Both indications of too little or two much weft. Remember the old seam gauges with the sliding metal mark thingy. Works wonderful to measure areas and the movable edge doesn’t slide so you don’t have to constantly try and remember how wide or something was suppose to be.<br />
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7 Needles can be left hanging while weaving and picked up as needed by tying a small knot around the needles eye.<br />
8. Watch the colour you sew the slit with. in time there is always a small amount of movement of the weft up and down the warps. Choice neutrals and usually not white. Sew when ever possible like to like. Never pierce a warp thinking it will stabilize the slit. <br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: x-large;">of my blogs. Chene and I are off to read a book.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09602511849713822619noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724368769805213.post-20865853275530971192014-01-07T15:27:00.001-08:002014-01-07T16:16:38.724-08:00No Regrets-left. My last years list of resolutions is completed and things ended and new things begun. The future is here and everything else is the past.Last years epiphany has now become reality.<b> <table border="4" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="width: 473px;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;">I do have real resolutions.</span> Mine are to let the past stay in the past because it's over and done with and keep on <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-erGSzqxJuKo/UsyNF1QF3uI/AAAAAAAAExk/7kjYnlH3Uh8/s1600-h/DSCN1010%25255B11%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN1010" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-0YwzpdVOz4A/UsyNGfuKTlI/AAAAAAAAExo/8IOkasTDJSQ/DSCN1010_thumb%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="157" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1010" width="117" /></a>moving. Get rid of the Detritus in my life and just be me-a tapestry weaver. Find more weaving time by saying no. Become the storyteller I want to be and do it. Do more teaching in my studio. And, last, But not least a whole lot more journaling and writing at least 30 minutes a day. (Reflected images at the coast!)<br />
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<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Yy5IkryYrsw/UsyNG_JSk2I/AAAAAAAAExw/Mro3Y2it6aA/s1600-h/DSCN1106%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img alt="DSCN1106" border="0" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-rZ3PCsOCe08/UsyNHiG0HgI/AAAAAAAAEx4/D8bRbH7LI-4/DSCN1106_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="114" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1106" width="147" /></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: x-large;">In December</span> Cathie Beckman came to weave with me for several(4) days. It was a great time. One on one teaching is wonderful.<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-3ctvWsBS-94/UsyNIBAJRlI/AAAAAAAAEx8/KmcU9u5jksg/s1600-h/DSCN1103%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSCN1103" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-KwgFWIM4s0Q/UsyNISruZjI/AAAAAAAAEyI/kxaAs5OpNCs/DSCN1103_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="114" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1103" width="147" /></a> both of us learned to watch the negative and positive spaces as the dining room chair morphed into Georgia’s Chair.<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Jokerman; font-size: large;">Sp</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Jokerman; font-size: large;">encer and I spent Christmas at the coast at Yachats.</span> Doing those things we love<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-_Dp2PRXvUe8/UsyNJ0Z4IsI/AAAAAAAAEyg/pd-GvBj1tXM/s1600-h/DSCN1170%25255B14%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSCN1170" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-MxRZgKDJZYo/UsyNKEw768I/AAAAAAAAEyo/R9WPzbw9O54/DSCN1170_thumb%25255B11%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="133" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1170" width="174" /></a> to do. Chene’s favourite perch to watch the trail along <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-pGtsQyJ13FY/UsyNKtGn-eI/AAAAAAAAEyw/PvsA7-xE_g0/s1600-h/DSCN1139%25255B10%25255D.jpg"><span style="color: red; font-family: Jokerman; font-size: large;"><img align="left" alt="DSCN1139" border="0" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-NRlVoIzTY_s/UsyNLFC6_eI/AAAAAAAAEy4/NLTMMOC8RFM/DSCN1139_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="73" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1139" width="95" /></span></a>the rocks. Chene and I wandered for hours along the rocks and a trail that has been in existence for 15,000 years give or take.<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-MNIlg1tR-g0/UsyNLQhlmXI/AAAAAAAAEzE/p5p1dFxAUVI/s1600-h/DSCN1113%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN1113" border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-RiykOReltZE/UsyNLw-e4aI/AAAAAAAAEzI/jaWMcYo9pEI/DSCN1113_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="152" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1113" width="198" /></a> Spent time at the Purple Pelican looking for rug samples and pop up book at my favourite book store in Bandon.</h3>
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<span style="color: #ff0080; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;">AND, Finally to the weaving part.</span><br />
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<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-nXyoLxsrOUY/UsyNOG1R6gI/AAAAAAAAEzw/_wQJ7evHMcY/s1600-h/DSCN1230%25255B1%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN1230" border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-DqfFJXGrULY/UsyNOjlz5WI/AAAAAAAAEz4/2yud4oktqJc/DSCN1230_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="125" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1230" width="157" /></a>Rebecca Mezoff sent me one of her Grandmother’s Marian Mezoff for my collection of bobbins. They are way large to work with on any of the looms I work on, but I really like the shape of the barrel. It’s concave rather then curving out. I have been thinking about doing a smaller riff on the bobbin. What I like is the way my fore finger naturally rest in the concave area. I think it’s a more<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-lom9Ud5iABY/UsyNOzrl-7I/AAAAAAAAE0A/hBpA6E5_IKg/s1600-h/DSCN1240%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSCN1240" border="0" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-wLlkhgf1bHA/UsyNPQBvzjI/AAAAAAAAE0I/7F3LZL2MbAE/DSCN1240_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="152" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1240" width="192" /></a> natural and better ergonomically for arthritic fingers. Notice that the fore finger rides naturally to the side and not on top of the bobbin. <span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Anyway,</span> what I meant to say is -Thank you Rebecca for the gift of your Grandmother’s bobbin. (you can see more of Rebecca’s blog post about her Grandmother at <a href="http://rebeccamezoff.blogspot.com/">http://rebeccamezoff.blogspot.com/</a>) I am going to talk to my bobbin maker and see if we can come up with a scaled down version to try.<br />
<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-size: large;"> Beatriz Nutz</span> has written an article that is being published even as I write on bobbins and such things ”Weaving Pictures. 15th Century Tapestry Production at Lengburg Castle.Archeological Textile Review; issue # 55. I am excitedly anticipating what she has to say about an historic find of bobbins. Haven’t seen the article, but I understand it has pictures of me using bobbins. <br />
<span style="color: #ff0080; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;">Materials in this new piece.</span><br />
I have been switching back and forth and combining sewing thread and embroidery floss.<br />
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I can easily use 6 threads in my weft bundle at 20-22 epi and not have any trouble covering. The main thing I need to watch for is that embroidery floss has a<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-vtdwHUBh6Es/UsyNPxEKytI/AAAAAAAAE0Q/4gaXMCVSo8g/s1600-h/DSCN1249%25255B13%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN1249" border="0" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Rvd6t66coMU/UsyNQQAfmXI/AAAAAAAAE0Y/jL92UCTpKps/DSCN1249_thumb%25255B10%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="149" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1249" width="115" /></a> slightly more matte feeling in the weaving. After the debacle with the the silk embroidery floss I learned that using shiny things in tapestry is difficult effect because of the small length weft<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-6XaIcejBj0k/UsyNQoY4KtI/AAAAAAAAE0k/a_Diz1rG84U/s1600-h/DSCN1246%25255B12%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSCN1246" border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-txwTKQcsR8E/UsyNROwRClI/AAAAAAAAE0o/H1XdPgSDpb8/DSCN1246_thumb%25255B10%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="119" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1246" width="149" /></a> that can be seen at any given time before plunging behind the next warp. I have been experimenting with changing and floating the silky threads over 2 warps. Haven’t decided if I like the effect. Have also been experimenting using floating soumack on the surface over two warps. This is a bad photo of both the long jump soumack and the silk/rayon going over two warps and under two warps<br />
It’s like <span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">the difference</span> between old mercerized sewing thread and more modern sewing threads. The cut off for old style seems to be in the 70’s between the old processes and the new processes of fiber and technique used in producing dressmakers threads. This is purely anecdotal information based on my weaving. The older threads-prior to the 70’s- are slightly shinier and silkier then the matte like effect and coarseness of the modern <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-ZmWAt0_Zo-M/UsyNRgiyj5I/AAAAAAAAE0w/bEeNVnpGu94/s1600-h/DSCN1237%25255B11%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN1237" border="0" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-_QLvyh-mZGE/UsyNSA3kq5I/AAAAAAAAE04/LHBBWyX1RUI/DSCN1237_thumb%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="91" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1237" width="112" /></a>dressmaker threads. In the modern threads one needs to be aware of the loft in the spinning of the thread. A fuzzy dressmakers thread even on the same spool can have areas without loft that can completely change the value of the thread as the light inter-reflects in the loft—making it appear lighter or darker when woven depending on the amount of fuzz or lack of fuzz. <br />
<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-size: medium;">One of the things</span> have noticed when using embroidery floss is cost. I had to make a trip Joanne Fabrics when I ran out of the greys I was using. I am still suffering from sticker shock. A skein now cost 40-45 cents- a very large jump from the 3-5<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-OpNZtjRDNC8/UsyNSilOJCI/AAAAAAAAE1E/2a5_4Mi-Abg/s1600-h/DSCN1238%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSCN1238" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-SUHZ68pVdcI/UsyNTKqfstI/AAAAAAAAE1I/KjkRaAq3oDg/DSCN1238_thumb%25255B10%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="143" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1238" width="260" /></a> cents I paid up until I was in Academy in the early 60’s-I know I am really dating myself.<br />
I<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: small;"> rarely</span> buy embroidery floss new. I have discovered by hanging out at estate sales I can buy it for almost nothing still in the boxes and skeins that it came in originally. Right is a picture of my last score this weekend at an estate sale over 300 skeins of rayon and cotton embroidery floss for around 20.00. I could have waited a couple of hours and possibly gotten it at 50% off put was to afraid someone else would purchase it.<br />
PS grey is probably the hardest colour to find at estate and garage sales. <br />
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<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-JViSJ0DvfXk/UsyNUVrpYyI/AAAAAAAAE1g/fxrQMXAJ7rU/s1600-h/img011%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img alt="img011" border="0" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-7NBbryGwJmU/UsyNU6qh5NI/AAAAAAAAE1o/ffk14EbOELE/img011_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="127" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="img011" width="89" /></a><span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: medium;">Lacing up a slit</span><br />
<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;">Cavendoli knotting---I</span> know that some will say this isn’t cavendoli knots, but this is what is described in Victorian needlework book form the 19th century, but the name is unimportant. Normally this knot goes <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-QsyajQK88yM/UsyNVF632JI/AAAAAAAAE1w/L_PHxVf3JUs/s1600-h/img012%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img alt="img012" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-0CzNVZsQXF0/UsyNVjxhhrI/AAAAAAAAE14/rbt6H-uqKI0/img012_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="109" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="img012" width="66" /></a>up one warp and creates a twisting ridge that can be moved to the back and stitched to keep in place or be fine enough to stay between two warp threads.<br />
<span style="color: #9c85c0; font-size: medium;">First lacing up a slip</span>. It has a tendency to be toothy depending on how fine of a lacing thread one uses.<br />
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start with a larks head<br />
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<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-QkeEmWUE9zY/UsyNW9MXLuI/AAAAAAAAE2Q/U5a1ym236ME/s1600-h/DSCN1254%25255B14%25255D.jpg"><img alt="DSCN1254" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-MwprmTP5dCM/UsyNXTAWvOI/AAAAAAAAE2Y/cuAuuhpqPC4/DSCN1254_thumb%25255B14%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="113" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1254" width="114" /></a>wrap around warp every pass or two. The size of the vertical lace line can be varied by the amount of threads in the wrap. Usually as a slide tooth, which can vary by the amounts of passes between the wrap or lacing thread.<br />
<span style="color: #9c85c0; font-size: medium;">Cavendoli knots on one warp</span><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-kv06vXvJA2E/UsyNXu71raI/AAAAAAAAE2g/lmuMPRxwcP8/s1600-h/DSCN1264%25255B17%25255D.jpg"><span style="color: #9c85c0; font-size: medium;"><img align="left" alt="DSCN1264" border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-lY3IipvRVqg/UsyNYH-BxYI/AAAAAAAAE2o/_jDm_jXDgHw/DSCN1264_thumb%25255B19%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="164" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1264" width="100" /></span></a><br />
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If you look closely you can see the ridge on the left side of the knots going up this warp. I have straightened because it<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-j8N37igzupk/UsyNYTGyFwI/AAAAAAAAE2w/w9jpcn3yngU/s1600-h/img012%25255B11%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="img012" border="0" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-lPfjIvNo-38/UsyNYx5wiaI/AAAAAAAAE24/ci2DILFeTUk/img012_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="85" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="img012" width="52" /></a> has a tendency spiral. This can be pulled to the back and stitched in place. It makes a nice solid line up one warp that will not slide up and down as a regular wrap around the warp thread does. Compare to diagram of the process above. note ridge on left of in diagram. My camera sucks for taking close ups! Think it’s time to gift myself with a close up lens.<br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Combined Cavendoli and lacing</span><br />
To begin it is larks headed under the first pass and the cavendoli is done on <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-s-c7epRnMHY/UsyNZYMD6lI/AAAAAAAAE3E/L7tJibdE-2Y/s1600-h/DSCN1269%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN1269" border="0" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-AeE5R13Udao/UsyNZ63RlnI/AAAAAAAAE3I/22PfT5v4TTk/DSCN1269_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="140" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1269" width="177" /></a>the first warp on the edge of the next pass. Again the line of knots can be sized by the amount of wefts in the knotting bundle. The knot can be made small enough that the line or ridge can be made to fit within the distance of half of the space between two warps and then stitched in place just as you would stitch in the ditch to close a slit. IT creates a very fine line up the edge of a slit. <br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Jokerman;">Silver</span><br />
I am back to working on my silver. I am revisiting some partially finished pieces, because my goals have changed for the box I was trying to build. I am <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-3bxOMvJpKoE/UsyNaKJ5kYI/AAAAAAAAE3Q/OVZWGlb7qJA/s1600-h/DSCN1226%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN1226" border="0" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-ood0cQsAsd8/UsyNajH8twI/AAAAAAAAE3Y/8jSugtodyFk/DSCN1226_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="130" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1226" width="169" /></a>going do a filigree box instead. So what you see are the pieces from the box, the start of a necklace and bracelet made of Malachite and Brazilian opal, and a small broken silver and amber spider that I am repairing. I have finally had the time to actually build a small c<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-du0KWjabmTo/UsyNbPIYmxI/AAAAAAAAE3g/vEdIBUltDn4/s1600-h/DSCN1251%25255B8%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSCN1251" border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-lhhV_n_DI6w/UsyNbrcPFvI/AAAAAAAAE3o/bm_upHHqN44/DSCN1251_thumb%25255B10%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="135" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1251" width="244" /></a>orner place to work on silver and arrange it into a usable space.<br />
I have spent part of the money I inherited from my Dad for some tools I wanted and needed and a proper jewelers work space.<br />
Last things to do are fix my chair and buy another fire extinguisher. This is a place I don’t have to put things away and out of sight before a piece is finished. Before you ask-no I haven’t taken up the piano. The piano stool; holds my repousse’ dish. Makes the process easier because it turns and will stand between ones legs.<br />
Enuff-I am seriously into my weaving time.<br />
tell next time!<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-UFl6udTXwgw/UsyNb6uBwuI/AAAAAAAAE3w/-Ep9Cn5cdyk/s1600-h/DSCN1124%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSCN1124" border="0" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-eGzE6YcW6k4/UsyNcczjvhI/AAAAAAAAE34/NpPO3RW3N04/DSCN1124_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" height="244" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1124" width="184" /></a><br />
katheAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09602511849713822619noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724368769805213.post-75965731681620903742013-12-06T18:49:00.001-08:002013-12-07T11:22:25.231-08:00Beginnings and ending And not so much-yet<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;">I wish</span> I could figure out how time can be the slowest thing in the world o<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-EEP6kpt6-4M/UqKMXSwoSFI/AAAAAAAAEko/3tHKE7TMLN4/s1600-h/800px-Ambre_Dominique_Moustique%25255B11%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="800px-Ambre_Dominique_Moustique" border="0" height="115" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-1QKkwc2Ch68/UqKMYDwrUcI/AAAAAAAAEkw/btZZrhi6APA/800px-Ambre_Dominique_Moustique_thumb%25255B9%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="800px-Ambre_Dominique_Moustique" width="161" /></a>r the fastest-the speed of light(186,000mph) and or like the slow dripping of molasses and/or amber(mpgh-miles per best guess an hour) on a cold day-sometimes with the ability to happen simultaneously. <br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Jokerman; font-size: large;">I am better then a fourth</span> done with my next piece. It’s at the stage that it’s becoming fun to weave. The decisions have been made and it should work out just fine. I usually hold my breath until I get this <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-GpK2imxmIQg/UqKMY4KznRI/AAAAAAAAEk4/Cod3X2WNT-8/s1600-h/DSCN1077%25255B9%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN1077" border="0" height="144" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-NTEVYpr5SWE/UqKMaUuuCvI/AAAAAAAAEk8/tBWNQfBrKA4/DSCN1077_thumb%25255B12%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1077" width="244" /></a>far. The second loom is warped and ready for the smaller pieces. Sometime this weekend I’ll spend time warping a loom for a student that is coming to stay for a few days to study here in the workshop. <br />
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These two smoky sunset pictures were taken by Trish Heath a friend of mine who generously lent them to me for use for cartoons. My camera was <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-b8HuDi0lm3M/UqKMa5OBMMI/AAAAAAAAElE/NRx9ePIas1g/s1600-h/1209207_10200712010465781_802649779_n%25255B13%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="1209207_10200712010465781_802649779_n" border="0" height="87" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-BfsVw-mhi3k/UqKMbWdS0EI/AAAAAAAAElQ/5UdrGI9QmSI/1209207_10200712010465781_802649779_n_thumb%25255B16%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="1209207_10200712010465781_802649779_n" width="71" /></a><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-EiY-9pwXvJ0/UqKMcPRbukI/AAAAAAAAElU/__HK01hCJrU/s1600-h/1185594_10200712009065746_947326968_n%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="1185594_10200712009065746_947326968_n" border="0" height="74" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-b7z_R9hFmls/UqKMcaabyZI/AAAAAAAAElc/KOnvAd0kjD0/1185594_10200712009065746_947326968_n_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="1185594_10200712009065746_947326968_n" width="95" /></a>packed and I couldn’t retrieve it in time. So I didn’t get any shots of this incredible sunset.These will be the bases for my 3 inch by 3 inch series called Elements<br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Brush Script MT; font-size: large;">Nice surprise today. It’s snowing!</span> <span style="color: #0080ff; font-size: x-large;">AND,</span> sticking around for a bit. I guess winter really is here and autumn is gone. Snow is little bit of a rarity in the part of Oregon I live in-especially to accumulate 4-6 inches<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-0o5xk_3froQ/UqKMcxupY5I/AAAAAAAAElo/CEAGSFPDL7o/s1600-h/DSCN1075%25255B11%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN1075" border="0" height="142" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-f3N3oEbesr8/UqKMdZ51_MI/AAAAAAAAEls/UqYhFw-PI_c/DSCN1075_thumb%25255B11%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1075" width="79" /></a> and hang around a bit. Biggest surprise-Chene loves the<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-J5-ILqOpONU/UqKMd1u_zmI/AAAAAAAAEl0/gAN7PqZ-gSc/s1600-h/DSCN1074%25255B12%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSCN1074" border="0" height="133" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Tek4j_gAe24/UqKMeaYDJWI/AAAAAAAAEl8/uQag-4sYPHk/DSCN1074_thumb%25255B9%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1074" width="99" /></a>e snow. He wandered all over the yard and side walk, jumping through 6-7 inch drifts. Didn’t even whine about his cold bear belly. He has a six inch square bald spot between his back legs and on his abdomen that he tries very desperately to keep warm and dry most of the time. So does this mean I have to climb up on a letter and remove the snow from the solar panels?<br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: French Script MT; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>“Small” aside-</strong></span> </span><br />
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<tr> <td valign="top" width="418"><span style="color: blue; font-family: French Script MT; font-size: large;"> <span style="color: red;">Rebecca Metzoff</span> has a very interesting blog on her Grandmother’s bobbins. It started out with an entry for October 4 and her new blog has some interesting pictures and text from a pamphlet -Rug Weaving, Dryad Leaflet No. 85, Dryad Handicrafts, Northgates, Leichester. Printed in England by the Blackfriars Press Ltd, Leicester.</span></td> </tr>
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<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;">Beginnings and endings-</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">First,</span> the logic of even needing to do anything with ends and tails-<br />
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<strong><span style="color: blue;">Double sided or not.</span></strong> The difference-ends on the back o<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Dlq3XqPVasw/UqKMfo5CUtI/AAAAAAAAEmU/78SKQRsUkQo/s1600-h/DSCN1078%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSCN1078" border="0" height="93" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-7_-Ytnf6a5M/UqKMgEGmCsI/AAAAAAAAEmc/Y8iZEcazJtQ/DSCN1078_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1078" width="70" /></a>r double sided or both. Left is a photo of the back of one of my pieces with the ends left hanging. Right is a very fine double sided tapestry-probably used as a wall to divide up space. in a large room. It may be Scandinavian-maybe. <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-n5dlchPYIP0/UqKMgqwwnYI/AAAAAAAAEmo/VFSn4mbH86s/s1600-h/DSCN1070%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img alt="DSCN1070" border="0" height="78" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-szLemcuuNsM/UqKMhMPLnSI/AAAAAAAAEms/RxlFUN5z2Iw/DSCN1070_thumb%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1070" width="117" /></a>The third and or clinker is a rya edge that has purposely been woven or tied or knotted so the ends could hang out and the tapestry has the ends hanging off the back side. <br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><strong>Secondly</strong></span>,Some materials need to be secured more then others or you're going to have weft ends where you don’t want them hanging off edges or on the front of the tapestry.<br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;"> Tradition and Romance<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;">-</span></span>There is a whole thing about damp castle walls and wear naturally felting the ends and protecting the back of the tapestry from wear. Occasionally rumoured or hinted at on the opposite end as a protector against wear on sand.<br />
<strong><u>Does it work?</u></strong> Who knows? But, I probably won’t live long enough to ever find out if it worked on one of my tapestries. So I rather error on the side of doing too much instead of too like. I pig tail everything. There are many weft materials that do not have enough fuzz or loft or along enough staple to do this even over time. The rayon's, silks and embroidery floss and dressmakers threads I use will not felt/full or stay put.<br />
There are basically<span style="color: red; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: large;"> 5 traditions maybe 4 depending</span> on whose logic is applied for finishing weft beginnings and endings.So this is what I think.<br />
1. Leave the weft hanging on the back of the tapestry and do nothing.<br />
2. The overhand knot to secure ends left hanging. Can be done with a pigtail or without. If I am using a lot of slick yarns in my weft bundle. I will sometimes do both. I was taught this by one of my Gobelin instructors, but I am not sure if it is really part of the Gobelin tradition.<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/--JkRzXj8NEU/UqKMhtF4U2I/AAAAAAAAEm0/5LHWzrSPMes/s1600-h/DSCN1047%25255B17%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN1047" border="0" height="148" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-KlyXFbA7Ca4/UqKMiFSxNQI/AAAAAAAAEm8/n7ZqXKIvTSM/DSCN1047_thumb%25255B18%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1047" width="140" /></a><br />
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Overhand knot. Use the tip of the bottom to snug it up tight against the back of the tapestry. Can be done from the front or the back when your weaving<br />
3. Gobelin style using a pig tail or an overhand knot to keep the weft ends on the back of the tapestry and then cut short.This can be reversed so that one can do it from the front of the tapestry, which is what the diagrams are portraying. <span style="color: blue;">MAINLY</span>--because I now work from the front and teach people to weave from the front. But I used this same technique to weave from the back for over 10 years. Ends trimmed to about .5 inches after the tapestry is finished or while still on the loom as you go. Pig tails can easily done for the front or back of a tapestry.<br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;">That said</span> What I have found when I am teaching is that pigtails are either the easiest thing in the world to do or the hardest.<br />
The diagram below is of pigtails reversed from working on the back to how to do them from the front. <br />
The trick<em> have found </em> is to remember that you always need to be aware of whether the warp thread is a hill or valley. If the pig tail is going to be on a hill thread it goes behind 2. If it’s going to be on a valley thread it goes behind one warp.<br />
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note this one goes behind one warp thread<br />
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This is behind two warp threads<br />
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3. For double sided or reversible tapestries or just to anchor the weft threads. This is the wispy weft thingy where ends are graded at an angle and laid with the ends or tails on each other. Doesn’t really have a name. It’s all done as one weaves. Related to Navajo and some Middle Eastern cultures. Some have hypothesized that this technique might have been brought to the America’s by the Spaniards. Usually by those who forget that there was already a tapestry weaving culture in the America's long before Europeans arrived. <br />
<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-4tb1Jrtdc2A/UqKMm-lLbMI/AAAAAAAAEoE/Qeav3W5OrSI/s1600-h/DSCN1051%25255B8%25255D.jpg"><img alt="DSCN1051" border="0" height="104" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-AXjOoi7H2qU/UqKMnMEzZ4I/AAAAAAAAEoM/M8yf1VNbJMw/DSCN1051_thumb%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1051" width="135" /></a>Ending Threads on the fell line are tapere<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-jnh52kdGtwU/UqKMnmMiTxI/AAAAAAAAEoU/0J7bpFbGuzg/s1600-h/DSCN1054%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSCN1054" border="0" height="115" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-mSeML1dZsOQ/UqKMoH17QxI/AAAAAAAAEoc/1KCVD8xoFKg/DSCN1054_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1054" width="149" /></a>d and or graded at an angle. Weft bundle is cut at an angle or graded.<br />
<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-jGf0bE5KWss/UqKMoWwrMoI/AAAAAAAAEok/rFZAR6BLQoU/s1600-h/DSCN1055%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img alt="DSCN1055" border="0" height="101" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-wbgaSsVEVE0/UqKMoyww04I/AAAAAAAAEos/AXgHIL-__og/DSCN1055_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1055" width="130" /></a>Weft threads are laid on top of of tapered wefts on fail line in the same shed.<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-FFtARBMeKf4/UqKMpa1cEkI/AAAAAAAAEo0/2USYe8cdKEo/s1600-h/DSCN1058%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSCN1058" border="0" height="126" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-B0f7GzUAqlI/UqKMp-KZnAI/AAAAAAAAEo8/2Rm8LwJel00/DSCN1058_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1058" width="167" /></a><br />
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Woven over weft holds the ends in place in place.<br />
This can also be done by snapping or pulling a singles thread between your fingers instead of using scissors<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-z6kKCg7BUfw/UqKMqNn-RJI/AAAAAAAAEpE/wtIpVB2ENoA/s1600-h/DSCN1059%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN1059" border="0" height="113" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-n7l7qP16yjg/UqKMqgkqihI/AAAAAAAAEpM/7sYzapGRBdA/DSCN1059_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1059" width="146" /></a>. The two ends of the singles yarn will fuzz out and taper out to nothing.<br />
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note the two tapered ends are laid in the same shed and then beaten down.<br />
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4. Weft ends are needled in down the warp channel that’s created by the over and under of the weaving process. Probably a Scandinavian tradition of beginnings and endings in Aklae and Rolakken.<br />
<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-EGaIb_UBSd8/UqKMtRwNe0I/AAAAAAAAEp4/7WVHDtJJ-4A/s1600-h/DSCN1040%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img alt="DSCN1040" border="0" height="178" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-D8CKkmN8NQU/UqKMuoVRCnI/AAAAAAAAEp8/IGgjud-2GVA/DSCN1040_thumb%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1040" width="142" /></a><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-X1LAmK-QOSE/UqKMuwNI1OI/AAAAAAAAEqE/_iFUobCBccs/s1600-h/DSCN1043%25255B9%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN1043" border="0" height="147" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-hijsTCN2Ms4/UqKMvQAASeI/AAAAAAAAEqI/2VSkCQ3SO5U/DSCN1043_thumb%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1043" width="132" /></a>The needle with the weft end being needled down through the channel by the warp<br />
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In real life I probably would have gone down several more wefts and all trace of the black would have disappeared when beaten in. This can be done while weaving or when the weaving is finished on or off the loom depending on personal preference.<br />
5. There are two variations of this one. I really wish I had photos of both these processes, but I don’t. <br />
The <span style="color: blue;">first</span> is to leave the ends hanging on either the front and back. AND, then fulling the tapestry by washing machine, beating it on a rock with mild soap and water.( Fulling is a process that increases the compactness of a woven woolen fabric by subjecting it to , moisture, heat, friction until the fabric shrinks between 2-5 percent or more.Shrinkage should occur in both the warp and weft.) This traps the ends. One then comes back and trims the ends to the surface of the tapestry. If you brush the wool surface gently all of the fuzzy will disappear into the surface. This works best on woolens. Less so on worsted wefts. Not at all on Cottons, Silks and Rayon's and linen threads.<br />
The <span style="color: blue;">second variation</span> is Turkish and before you react with stunned disbelief(my first reaction) I do have a DVD of this process. Everything is the same until the fulling is finished. It was first place into a centrifugal spinner with soap and water. The tapestry is laid out wet on a hard surface. More soap and water are applied. A very brushy, sooty, orange/red flame thrower is then used to scorch the surface of the tapestry. It burns off the ends turning the surface of the tapestry black. The tapestry is then thoroughly rinsed of all residue of soap and scorch. The torching doesn’t affect the original colour and the black rinses off.<br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;">All that Said-</span>Here are my reasons for securing the weft ends with a pigtail or a knot or even using a fulling process or a needle process to control and ends.<br />
1. Tails have a tendency to move to the surface of a tapestry or come loose, hang out as a thread on the surface and look funky and if just cut off will leave a little puff of weft ends on the surface. It most often happens in an exhibit or when you photograph a piece. Very embarrassing . It’s an unspoken law of the universe you never catch them until it’s too late and way to embarrassing.<br />
2. If a loose end is cut off it can unravel back past the next warp and change the design.<br />
3.If not taken care of properly sometimes an end will wiggle loose enough to leave a small loop on the surface of a tapestry and snag.<br />
4. There’s always the one client who will take an unclothed vacuum to the surface of a textile and suck out an unsecured tail.<br />
3. Sometimes you want to make sure that a half pass or a demi duite maintains it’s integrity as every other thread when ending a line of demi duite<br />
Last, but not least. I have found some new samples of the soumack and brocading techniques. They are beautiful Iranian rugs. I am getting a huge stack of new to me techniques to learn about and study. I’ll be writing more about these later.<br />
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This rug is 48 inches by 48 inches with a tapestry woven back ground. All designs are soumack or brocading. <br />
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The two bottom photos are the end detail and the central portion of a 9 foot by 2 foot runner of some sort. It is tapestry woven with soumack and brocading.<br />
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That’s more then enough for now!<br />
I kept my promise to several students about beginnings and endings and the elusive pigtail.<br />
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Chene’s<br />
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Bye for now,<br />
katheAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09602511849713822619noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724368769805213.post-28975597859761778092013-11-10T19:13:00.001-08:002013-11-10T19:24:11.859-08:00At Last Autumn is here<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-6U2A8lUO7Lo/UoBLNQ5LBpI/AAAAAAAAEeQ/-95J6HEE0CY/s1600-h/DSC_0378-219.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0378 (2)" border="0" height="166" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-LsZCBQFaZF0/UoBLN5NVgDI/AAAAAAAAEeU/k_8ZuFvZJeY/DSC_0378-2_thumb16.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0378 (2)" width="111" /></a><span style="color: red; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: medium;">Autumn is here. Autumn is magic.</span> One day Everything dissolves into fire and light and then disappears into the wind and rain the next. Leaving only the most tenacious waiting for the next storm to finish the job. To me the light is often more intense then a clear sunny August day. On a tr<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-6AfG3ScGbO8/UoBLObfMYfI/AAAAAAAAEec/scNQmXKSMuQ/s1600-h/DSC_0338-25.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSC_0338 (2)" border="0" height="168" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-ieplxwQ5RlM/UoBLOzB2jTI/AAAAAAAAEek/feFnM2lrY7k/DSC_0338-2_thumb6.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0338 (2)" width="126" /></a>ip to Sisters-and, yes that is the name of a town not a trip to siblings- and over the Santiam Pass the colours were so intense often reflected against a deep green of the ever greens or from areas gone grey and then green from past forest fires. By the time we came home, i felt that my eyes had been burned out and needed to rest in a dark room for a week. <span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Brush Script MT; font-size: large;">Every time</span> I closed my eyes I was left with and after burn/ after image of the opposite colour. An interesting phenomena that happens when one stares at a given colour too long. You perceive it's opposite on the colour wheel.(see box below for a real scientific explanation that isn’t based on emotion) I want to memorialize the colours and use them in a tapestry mixing them into incredible Chene's and mélanges-bobbin blending at it’s best... <br />
<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-nEcc5w7bqWs/UoBLPBJ9KAI/AAAAAAAAEes/7eoqXt-B98A/s1600-h/DSC_0355-25.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0355 (2)" border="0" height="157" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-QX938yD2VWo/UoBLPslrpbI/AAAAAAAAEe0/U8jZYF-9F-0/DSC_0355-2_thumb5.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0355 (2)" width="189" /></a>There is a particular <span style="color: red; font-family: Jokerman; font-size: large;">red</span> that i have been trying to achieve for what seems like a million years. A cool red that darkens into a a deep <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-X9u7If4Yyr8/UoBLQMbm3kI/AAAAAAAAEe8/0Pl5DeIvFcc/s1600-h/DSC_0340-28.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSC_0340 (2)" border="0" height="244" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-B1rih0juILs/UoBLQXZfQAI/AAAAAAAAEfE/aZZtqQlsSac/DSC_0340-2_thumb11.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0340 (2)" width="152" /></a>maroon or purple with a hint of a Deep turquoise green and a hint of <span style="color: #ff8040; font-family: Jokerman; font-size: large;">salmon.</span> <span style="color: red; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: large;">Actually,</span> who am I kidding there is also a salmon colour that dissolves to yellow-green. I haven't been able to capture.And, the list goes on to several other almost unrepeatable colours. I have more luck i think with the optical blending using bobbin blends then a dyer has trying to create the colours in dying the yarns for my wefts. My bobbin blends don’t turn to muddy colours like some dyes do when trying to copy these colours. Should try to be less smug about it, but optical blending on a bobbin is pretty cool.<br />
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<tr> <td valign="top" width="467"><span style="color: red; font-family: Jokerman; font-size: medium;">THE WHY OF IT</span>. Negative afterimages are caused when the eye's photoreceptors, primarily those known as cone cells, adapt from the overstimulation and lose sensitivity.[1] Normally, the eye deals with this problem by rapidly moving small amounts (see: microsaccade), the motion later being "filtered out" so it is not noticeable. However, if the color image is large enough that the small movements are not enough to change the color under one area of the retina, those cones will eventually tire or adapt and stop responding. The rod cells can also be affected by this. <br />
When the eyes are then diverted to a blank space, the adapted photoreceptors send out a weak signal and those colors remain muted. However, the surrounding cones that were not being excited by that color are still "fresh", and send out a strong signal. The signal is exactly the same as if looking at the opposite color, which is how the brain interprets it.[citation needed] <br />
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<span style="color: #8000ff; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: large;">Working on clarity and specifics-</span> It was time to journal again and create goals. <br />I am<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-oTZcXI4JkTo/UoBLQ5e20GI/AAAAAAAAEfQ/PbdfTNx4k-c/s1600-h/DSCN09476.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN0947" border="0" height="124" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-bThtrm-7C94/UoBLRWlVHpI/AAAAAAAAEfU/KvtFNGEmOq4/DSCN0947_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN0947" width="91" /></a> at a time in my life like no other. So, Pat and I spent a couple of days at the coast along with Chene. Whose only concerned was and where is next treat was coming from and with not getting his feet and belly wet needlessly. After all it is Autumn at the coast. Some times distance and solitude are needed to put things into proper or even a new light and a time to figure out what is dross and should be allowed to fall away. It' was also a time of getting away from the clutter that has occurred mentally over the last year and to define a new mental space when the old rules and things are no longer applicable because life has radically altered for me-once again. <br /><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Q6qBiRZFu3U/UoBLRnisDfI/AAAAAAAAEfg/umAT48qEJMg/s1600-h/IMG_05704.jpg"><img align="right" alt="IMG_0570" border="0" height="102" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-oK-wPSVomxE/UoBLSNwWKgI/AAAAAAAAEfk/inV-HVPTIOM/IMG_0570_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0570" width="133" /></a> It was a good time to revamp and create a new workable schedule-My weaving time was always disappearing as I worked down lists of relevant needful things to do that were eating in to my non scheduled weaving times. Give me list and I’ll work it through until it’s finished no matter what I really want to do. <span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">So,</span> Monday is silver, Tuesday is Fine Fiber Press book wo<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-2_M2tlMA5gE/UoBLShFJtoI/AAAAAAAAEfs/Dsln20v_NDI/s1600-h/IMG11.jpg"><img align="left" alt="IMG" border="0" height="102" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-cQouCXe5nRc/UoBLS1HQc9I/AAAAAAAAEf0/IWIjuzl9h30/IMG_thumb8.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG" width="79" /></a>rk, lunch for updating the week and writing projects with Pat, Thursday afternoon is Gallery Calapooia and i have scheduled my weaving time, which always works for me. It allows me to say no and tell all to go away so I can weave and do those things necessary for my weaving. This new schedule should allow me 4-8 hours a day for weaving. Sort of reminds me of my grandmother’s embroidered tea towels with something for everyday. We all knew which day she was doing what. <br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Jokerman;">I am now at a place to begin my new tapestries-Hallelujah, etc etc. </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Britannic Bold;">But first- Now</span></span> is the time when I spend a little- a lot of my thought process analyzing what I think I could have done better or maybe not so much better-- as should have/could have done differently. I finished the forever<br />
"7 times 7..." <span style="font-family: Chiller;">almost dog piece</span> and photographed it in <br />
time for entering the ATA <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-LQC_cf1ivg4/UoBLTZqmJBI/AAAAAAAAEgA/7UBgNnqa1xw/s1600-h/DSC_032613.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0326" border="0" height="144" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-aOfeUFP_rYk/UoBLTpdyz3I/AAAAAAAAEgE/eliny8giMtI/DSC_0326_thumb16.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0326" width="109" /></a>exhibit. I was a very doubtful that i would get it finished and<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-XfPHHwgOvTY/UoBLUPKTXWI/AAAAAAAAEgQ/ylTuMAZfN7k/s1600-h/DSC_030310.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSC_0303" border="0" height="93" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-T9AnNuLOwFA/UoBLUjjPN-I/AAAAAAAAEgU/U9aNovoF3dA/DSC_0303_thumb12.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0303" width="74" /></a> photographed in time. Perhaps doubtful it will even be juried into the show, but I needed a deadline to work towards. I like the design and it's well woven, but there are things in it's weft construction I probably won't do again. <br />
It was almost impossible to get a decent photo because of the high amount of silk and rayon in it. I took the photo's over 12 times. Let alone the same amount of times or more for the details. My Nikon Color pix couldn’t deal with the silk and weave structure at all. My<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-kTZohWK861A/UoBLVGhxzAI/AAAAAAAAEgg/sg7FdDrxCIM/s1600-h/rayon%252520floss%252520and%252520silk%25255B9%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="rayon floss and silk" border="0" height="105" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-h0Ur0bHbYz4/UoBLVmnHCxI/AAAAAAAAEgk/5LmrOGA5X1k/rayon%252520floss%252520and%252520silk_thumb%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="rayon floss and silk" width="95" /></a> larger Nikon D-60 did slightly better, but had a tendency to darken all of the colours and moiré.They-rayon/silk- have this thing that they do better known as the "moiré effect" that happens with a higher rate of frequency the more silk and rayon that is mixed in with the cottons and embroidery flosses in the weft bundles. This piece seemed to be darker when photographed. I was hoping for lighter and a sheen from the rayon and silk. Didn’t happen!<br />
One of the things I discovered in this piece is I am not particularly fond of the effect of silk and rayon in the tapestry weave process. At 20 epi the distance over a warp thread to the under the warp thread isn't large enough to maximize the visual effect that rayon and silk have over a longer distance. Instead of shiny reflection one gets a hard look in some cases an almost straw look. I discovered this also happens when using the thin cut layers of silver used in obis and saganishiki for weaving into tapestry. And ,then ,of course almost worst but in a different way are the moiré pattern that are created digitally when photographed. The bobbins were a nightmare. Always tangling. Handling the weft bundles was best done by not putting them on a bobbin and tying an over hand knot every 8 inches. <br />(see section below that i wrote on bobbins) <br />
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Moiré patterns are often an undesired artifact of images produced by various digital imaging and computer graphics techniques, for example when scanning a halftone picture or ray tracing a checkered plane (the latter being a special case of aliasing, due to under sampling a fine regular pattern).[1] This can be overcome in texture mapping through the use of mip-mapping and anisotropic filtering. <br />
…The lines could represent fibers in moiré silk, or lines drawn on paper or on a computer screen. The nonlinear interaction of the optical patterns of lines creates a real and visible pattern of roughly parallel dark and light bands, the moiré pattern, superimposed on the lines.[2] <br />
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<br /> <br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Jokerman; font-size: large;">AND NOW FINALLY THE NEW PIECES!!!</span><br />
<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Ftuv9HInsoc/UoBLWDMzpJI/AAAAAAAAEgw/jDspNHmMOto/s1600-h/DSCN1000%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN1000" border="0" height="105" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-8TZaW_p466A/UoBLWt88AkI/AAAAAAAAEg0/89ZwdLt5Cxw/DSCN1000_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1000" width="136" /></a>The design is now together and I started w<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/--iciBh-jHsc/UoBLXOQ1g6I/AAAAAAAAEhA/2n09fZAbfVw/s1600-h/caution%252520tape%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="caution tape" border="0" height="101" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-OTlRhuxDtQw/UoBLXgVYBhI/AAAAAAAAEhE/tkNCC3DzAZc/caution%252520tape_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="caution tape" width="149" /></a>weaving a piece that will be 12 x 12 inches. IT tells'/has a didactic feel and memorializes some thought that I had about my Dad’s life .Perhaps, a narrative about my fathers life. I wanted to use some caution tape, but didn't have any pieces to work from. Came home one day and found the contractor had tied off th<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-YZ2SwQ22etY/UoBLYF0-tAI/AAAAAAAAEhQ/QyJgFb6PzbU/s1600-h/DSCN1001%25255B16%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSCN1001" border="0" height="125" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-GUzIoO65hM4/UoBLYoXplzI/AAAAAAAAEhU/V9Ie9dxlV5Q/DSCN1001_thumb%25255B13%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN1001" width="162" /></a>e sid<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-K6dd8Rmzku4/UoBLY4rnn_I/AAAAAAAAEhc/NMePFs76n4Q/s1600-h/truck%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="truck" border="0" height="87" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-ao3tpw-15is/UoBLZUXfqsI/AAAAAAAAEhk/VS2fOl1aBO4/truck_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="truck" width="72" /></a>ewalk to keep people away from the scaffolding they were using while working on the soffits. So I have lots of pictures of draping caution tape.If you look carefully you can see the image of the truck and the caution tape on the cartoon behind he warp.<br />
I am also working on a series of small tapestries. The series is going to be called elements. Most will be about 3 inches x 3 inches and/or 2 x2 inches just be bits and pieces of things I like, but really don't need to put into a larger tapestry. <span style="color: red; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: medium;">But,</span> Have Always wanted to weave just for the fun of it. <span style="color: red; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;">Another reason-not the real reason</span> for doing them-just part of the nagging thought process of why not and what for this series is. Since i have been at Gallery Calapooia i am being asked if I do less expensive pieces for the beginner collector. One of the conclusions i came to while going through my journals is that I have oodles of small drawings, and photos of what i call bits and pieces that I would love the challenge myself with weaving, but never fit in to any particular design. So why not? Just for the shear pleasure and fun of doing or weaving bits and pieces that take smaller amounts of time. <br /><span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy;">BOBBINS-</span> <br />
On the tapestry list the subject of bobbins circles around about every other year. There's always the discussion of why use them, why choose specific <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-d5I1SXRCaVI/UoBLZpRHt0I/AAAAAAAAEhs/p0s1t5aAEI4/s1600-h/bobbins%252520and%252520such_edited-1%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="bobbins and such_edited-1" border="0" height="155" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-IyrSZntMdxM/UoBLaB9a4VI/AAAAAAAAEh0/uhLTlR60yBk/bobbins%252520and%252520such_edited-1_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="bobbins and such_edited-1" width="153" /></a>ones , how do you use them, why not needles, are they worth cost,appropriate size, etc, etc, etc. <br /><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">SO</span> I thought I would list the reasons, show examples of bobbin shapes and sizes, needles, and a few do's and probably nots, etc. <br />reasons for using a bobbin- <br />When i compile a list such as this, I wish people would understand their are no tapestry police. There's no right or wrong only what works and what is comfortable to the individual. NO ones going to demand that you stop weaving tapestries just because you don’t do it in a specific way with specific tools and looms. <br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;">So here are the reasons I use bobbins--</span><br />
<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;">PRO’s</span> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">1 And, let's get it out of the way. Bobbins ARE not a butterfly or a needle. hallelujah! I am butterfly challenged and hate needles. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> 2. Bobbins organize weft bundles.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">3.Bobbins</span><span style="font-size: small;"> help keep the weft bundles cleaner. Less likely to pick up oil from the fingers, debris and dust then when weft is long and hanging from the fell line. <br />4. protects the weft bundle as it is drawn through the warp. Less wear on the weft bundle. <br />5. I</span><span style="font-size: small;">n advanced tapestry weaving -it allows you to twist the weft bundle to produce different densities of colour by twisting the weft bundles tighter or looser between the fell line and the bobbin. <br />6. Saves time.Less chance of tangling yarns and needing to untangle. Unless of course your working with multiple wefts of silk or rayon, which will tighten down on the wrapped threads on a bobbin and tangle in a whole new way when you try to get more weft from the wrapped bundle. <br />7. Ergonomically easier on the hands then a needle or a butterfly. Your fingers are not grasping and pulling small elements that can hurt the hands over time. <br />8. Bobbins will not accidentally pierce a warp.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">9.Less wear on the weft as great amounts of it are used or pulled through the sheds. Wool and delicate threads will wear, become fuzzy and become less(wear) when pulled or unwoven over and over. <br />10. Point of the bobbin can be used to place weft, pull down the bubble, <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-YjXEzM4CZ6Y/UoBLalu4iaI/AAAAAAAAEiA/sy6wcfGkk5g/s1600-h/DSCN0331%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN0331" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-ObWlzSIL5XQ/UoBLbHqHdrI/AAAAAAAAEiE/Fiq-zJOm3C4/DSCN0331_thumb%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN0331" width="244" /></a>hold a weft in place or move a warp. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">11. The side of the bobbin can be used to very effectively scrape a weft bundle into place along a fell line. <br />12 .Bobbins helps control the loopies and unevenness that can occur in weft bundles left hanging and then picked up to be woven. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">13. Once you get used to them you can weave faster.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">14. Bones-a type of bobbin without a point are less likely to fall through low warp looms and all of the above applies when using bones.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">15. Bobbins are faster because you can change the direction with one hand and you only need to use one tool to move the weft along. Instead of several. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">16. If you really get into large amounts of thread on a bobbin there are machines that can feel the bobbin-depending on the size of bobbin used. I have found though that my Swedish Bobbins will hold about 1.5 yards of 4-5 strands of wool. More then enough even on my largest pieces that <br />I have woven on.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">17 the smaller the bobbin down to a certain size the faster you can push it through the shed and turn for the next half pass or demi duite. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: x-large;">Cons- </span>1. The right size for the hand or the loom can be difficult to find-Fine Fiber Press is a good source for different sizes. <br />2. Tips aren't meant be used to pry with and can be broken. New tips can be sharpened, use an awl, or get a brassy bob. Expensive, but you really only need one-or two-not all brassy bobs or a small palm awl will also suffice. <br />3. There usage is a learned skill. AND, people who use needles are often relating back to already learned skills and aren’t interesting in attempting to take the time to learn a new skill. Or, occasionally, in some cases find it easier to manipulate because of lack of strength or other hand issues. I find that using needles exasperates my hand issues. <br />4. Pointed bobbins don’t work really well on low warp looms-Point falls though easily-use bones or flutes that are meant for low warp looms. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">5. Need to learn to use bobbins in a specific way to make them practical-nob always goes through shed first. going point first grabs warps from the other shed.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">5. Bobbins can run away. Learn the trick of hitching over the knob and it all stops</span> <span style="font-size: small;">and you can easily pull the thread off the bobbin for weaving.</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;">HOW DO TELL A GOOD BOBBIN FROM A BAD BOBBIN</span> <br />.<br />
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1. Check out where the spindle that the weft will be wrapped around. It needs to have a bit of substance. Yes, those bad bobbins are beautiful and graceful looking, but are not built to function over the long term. Plastic bobbins are cheap, but extremely fragile and not terribly practical over time and most of the tips suck because they are the wrong shape to go between the warps easily and who wants to stay in contact for long hours with plastic. Check where the spindle attaches to the barrel. It has to be attached in such away that it’s not fragile and can stand up to being pulled on and with stand pressure from the fingers.<br />
2 It needs to be hard wood. Soft woods break easily and wear with weaving. Best bets are cherry, oak or maple-all hard woods.<br />
3. If the tip of a bobbin breaks, don’t chuck it repoint with a jack knife or carving knife.<br />
4. Stay away from heavily oiled and treated woods. Remember they will be in contact with your hands and the wefts for long periods of time. Finishes don't stay on long. They wear off with use.<br />
5. Stay away from endangered rain forest woods. Don’t create a market for the woods. Usually hard woods from the rainforest are dense and heavier then oak, maple or cherry. If a tip breaks they are hard to repoint and save.<br />
6. If someone tells you the bobbins are from recycled woods, ask the person if the woods that were recycled were ever painted or were from marine salvaged wood. Lead based paints and other not so chemicals can be found on recycled woods.Know where those recycled woods came from before you buy.<br />
7. If you are just starting don’t go out and by several dozen bobbins just because those are the ones your instructor used. Buy one of several different sizes until you find the one that works for your hand. Companies such as FFP will allow you to trade them back for the ones that do work for you. Once you’ve found the one that feels good buy them by bulk. Usually there is a substantial discount. Or go in with a friend.<br />
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katheAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09602511849713822619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724368769805213.post-89489042982910952312013-11-07T10:37:00.001-08:002013-11-07T10:37:58.211-08:00test<p>test</p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09602511849713822619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724368769805213.post-85465081808097362592013-09-20T21:34:00.001-07:002013-09-20T21:55:40.359-07:00of Cabbages and kings-nonce words and neologisms-and multi tasking"The time has come," the Walrus said,<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-lotaDxkeoUk/Uj0hSd60UAI/AAAAAAAAEQI/sVjMG_NlGWU/s1600-h/DSCN0303%25255B19%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN0303" height="133" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-hSFbjI_R_D0/Uj0hTGB3mDI/AAAAAAAAEQM/YAtEJ2ukiCA/DSCN0303_thumb%25255B16%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="display: inline; float: left;" title="DSCN0303" width="177" /></a> <br />"To talk of many things: <br />Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— <br />Of cabbages—and kings— <br />And why the sea is boiling hot— <br />And whether pigs have wings." <br />
—<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Looking-Glass">Through the Looking-Glass</a><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">There’s got to be a morning after part A</span><br />
<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-E5a4fL_BiMg/Uj0hUsHDjuI/AAAAAAAAEQo/mL3jp5ZUUo8/s1600-h/entry1%25252CTodd-Hooker%25252Ckathe%25252C%252520There%252520has%252520to%252520be%252520a%252520morning%252520afterpart1.jpg"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;"><img align="left" alt="entry1,Todd-Hooker,kathe, There has to be a morning afterpart1" height="180" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-9ANZYIXXjiU/Uj0hVFOchbI/AAAAAAAAEQs/Xf9PFmdycMY/entry1%25252CTodd-Hooker%25252Ckathe%25252C%252520There%252520has%252520to%252520be%252520a%252520morning%252520afterpart1_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="display: inline; float: left;" title="entry1,Todd-Hooker,kathe, There has to be a morning afterpart1" width="240" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">Making a small correction to the Tapestry Topics 2013 Fall issue. Part B was not in the Firestorm Exhibit. The confusion happened when I sent the two jpegs of the pieces to Tapestry Topics for the article I wrote on weaving tapestries in series –A Series of Studies on Changing Light and an exhibition review Cheryl Rinker--Woven Together Firestorm. The two pieces were conceived as a series, but part b was not finished until after the deadline so only part A was submitted and was in the exhibit. They were both used to illustrate the Review of the Firestorm exhibit. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Brush Script MT;">Due Diligence-really!</span><br />
<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Yy1PzXFqBfc/Uj0hVt_1U2I/AAAAAAAAEQ0/3GoNG9zkjFU/s1600-h/DSCN0280.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN0280" height="180" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-0B8RnAtb9oE/Uj0hWY_6AOI/AAAAAAAAEQ8/DNsf36_Sj1o/DSCN0280_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="display: inline; float: left;" title="DSCN0280" width="240" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I should finish this piece by Friday</span>.(<span style="color: blue; font-family: Britannic Bold;">editorial comment-I lied. It probably won’t be finished until I get back from Alaska-too many annoying details conspired against my having any weaving time this week. Even this blog has taken 3 days longer then it should have.</span> ) <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">It feels <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-D4qIGVxmNio/Uj0hW3gOTwI/AAAAAAAAERI/aGzk4m1eWlw/s1600-h/DSCN0288.jpg"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;"><img align="right" alt="DSCN0288" height="180" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/--dk038GEBIg/Uj0hXX8r3pI/AAAAAAAAERM/imPir3GrjbE/DSCN0288_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="display: inline; float: right;" title="DSCN0288" width="240" /></span></a>like I have been weaving on it for ever. Well, maybe I have. I guess it depends on the def. of forever. Long enough-anyway. It’s fast approaching the rank of a <span style="color: red; font-family: Chiller; font-size: x-large;">“Dog on the loom.” </span>My only is excuse is I used the time to finish my remodel and write a legal proposal for ending certain provisions in my Dad’s estate .. .Sounds a little like the dog ate my homework, but even Chene wouldn’t eat this piece. </span></span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-FaHyq2diqmA/Uj0hX3rQPxI/AAAAAAAAEY4/Cs5cOC83uw8/s1600-h/DSCN0298%25255B9%25255D.jpg"><img alt="DSCN0298" height="114" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-BGOwAdPQIwc/Uj0hYgZpozI/AAAAAAAAEZA/QCvfaMmU8ZY/DSCN0298_thumb%25255B10%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="display: inline;" title="DSCN0298" width="113" /></a>There’s only 2 days left of having contractors all over the place. The fence is done. New sign is up. The roof is one-ones soffit with vents and a drain pipe to go. All done before the autumn rains set in. Even though every time we tried to do work that shouldn’t get wet… The rains poured in torrential record breaking amounts. We even struck water when digging the post holes.<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-9dFbvxRY3rU/Uj0hZJek3vI/AAAAAAAAEZI/Ms-8Aeoi-wY/s1600-h/DSCN0297%25255B1%25255D%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN0297" height="105" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-M4EXNh4mhCI/Uj0hZ-YKtCI/AAAAAAAAEZQ/NIbYuL-axZI/DSCN0297%25255B1%25255D_thumb%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="display: inline; float: left;" title="DSCN0297" width="135" /></a> It’s raining again so one day after I come back and they’ll do those and add the two new gates to match the ones I already have. They are being built for the space to match the two that were made by a women welder in Silverton, Or. whose name over time has been forgotten. Only what at the time that I purchased the was remembered was the uniqueness of a women creating and welding whimsical metal gates. How sad to be only remembered by your craft and gender. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">My dad’s estate is over and done with. Sunday I leave for my 45th wedding anniversary cruise that should have happened in Je, but was just too busy to take. Enough with my excuses for being so far behind in my weaving. Life happens. All that said the piece still isn’t done! I need 3 days more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: large;">I have been having a lot of fun with symbols and cultural Icons</span>-first the broken puzzle, maze, the the 7x 7x7x7x7…, feathers, The scientific formula in the background, the rock wall, etc. </span><br />
<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: medium;">But, one of my favourites-- is this symbol.</span><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-1-ys2HcKS2g/Uj0haW5JgBI/AAAAAAAAER4/-BiaSk-NZq8/s1600-h/DSCN0291%25255B9%25255D.jpg"><span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: medium;"><img align="left" alt="DSCN0291" height="180" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-sHtOsJZdJIk/Uj0ha4jSR7I/AAAAAAAAER8/6tHSjQE9t_Q/DSCN0291_thumb%25255B10%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="display: inline; float: left;" title="DSCN0291" width="240" /></span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">According to one page source on the internet on iconic symbols in modern comic books it defines the moment of death, or of passing out of an idea, when drawn over the head of a comic strip character. It is an ideogram or icon used to convey an idea, a phantasy, or a wish a dream that is suddenly annihilated or destroyed by an <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-KdYGgq3eOo0/Uj0hbM7NH6I/AAAAAAAAESE/MDACa1sqYyM/s1600-h/clip_image001%25255B5%25255D.gif"><img alt="clip_image001" height="80" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-wwUd4057k_Y/Uj0hbnCKrQI/AAAAAAAAESM/XvJXZJiMYdE/clip_image001_thumb%25255B2%25255D.gif?imgmax=800" style="display: inline;" title="clip_image001" width="33" /></a>instant awakening or realization or perhaps an AHA moment.</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Jokerman; font-size: large;">With this piece I wanted to use more silk and rayon.</span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"> I was looking for- hoping for a little bit of a shimmer-Different then the way the cotton threads reflected or inter-reflect light. I also wanted</span><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-U50hCzoAWWs/Uj0hcK14sAI/AAAAAAAAESY/wtezd1Yo5CE/s1600-h/img003%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"></span></a><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-U50hCzoAWWs/Uj0hcK14sAI/AAAAAAAAEZY/nYFMpZejeV8/s1600-h/img003%25255B9%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="img003" height="172" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-CAYI1Q26_M4/Uj0hck8BUjI/AAAAAAAAEZg/FFpcH22mplE/img003_thumb%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="display: inline; float: right;" title="img003" width="141" /></a></span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"> to see if I could find away or a bobbin that would make the process easier. Well, I can tell you it certainly isn’t easier with using European style bobbins or bones. I Still end up with this-</span><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-UtN4zexUCP8/Uj0hdF__s9I/AAAAAAAAESo/DasFySuNdPE/s1600-h/DSCN0289%25255B9%25255D.jpg"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"></span></a><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-UtN4zexUCP8/Uj0hdF__s9I/AAAAAAAAEZo/EEe6EuAfnvE/s1600-h/DSCN0289%25255B10%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN0289" height="184" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-V8cz1BL5Kog/Uj0hdqv1RZI/AAAAAAAAEZw/NzPiNNkmSKk/DSCN0289_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="display: inline; float: left;" title="DSCN0289" width="240" /></a></span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">SO I am back</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">So I am back to tying over hand knots every 8 inches in the weft bundle. It’s a clumsy system as the hanging silk/rayon wefts tangle. It cuts down on speed as I sort through to find the one I wish to use. I have also discovered that I should always cut the loops of the weft bundles where I double back or fold the strands when doing the colour bundles. The loops catch and tangle everything I have tried wrapping the bobbin with the wefts that are knot, but they always make a mess of the silk or rayon when they unwind when I use my over the know trick so the bobbins don’t escape. (see page 30 in Tapestry 101 for how to use a bobbin)</span><br />
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<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-r0ZXVCCtGio/Uj0heOWfmKI/AAAAAAAAEZ4/c9CxIxsQ-98/s1600-h/JapaneseTapestryShuttlesChanged%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img alt="JapaneseTapestryShuttlesChanged" height="126" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-3-UVdyTyQaE/Uj0heQzaUPI/AAAAAAAAEaA/85dVqUNwRsg/JapaneseTapestryShuttlesChanged_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="display: inline;" title="JapaneseTapestryShuttlesChanged" width="240" /></a><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I am trying to use these Japanese tapestry shuttles instead of the Swedish bobbins I prefer to use in my weaving.. They are taking a little time to get use to, but perhaps they will work on the rayon and silk weft bundles. They just feel awkward because I am not used to using them-yet.</span> <br />
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<span style="color: red;">Cheri White</span><span style="font-family: Jokerman; font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">one of weaving buddies who comes to the studio just finished this tapestry. It’s fast becoming one of my favourite tapestries.Here it is just off the loom-not it’s official portrait-yet. Just a snap maybe some day she’ll write an explanation that I can share with everyone. I am totally in love with the imagery.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: x-large;">It’s fire weed season.</span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I have decided to plant some in my yard. Fireweed always makes me thing of Edith Miller. I did a small wool tapestry of this in 1979(20x30inches and sold it to Edith Miller along time friend. She is the last pe</span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">rson left alive in the group of 20 on going <img alt="DSCN0200" border="0" height="120" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-e-kBo90Z0ko/Uj0hfxcnabI/AAAAAAAAETY/rvNOmwXXgBg/DSCN0200_thumb5.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN0200" width="120" />students from the 80’s that I taught in Corvallis for years and years starting in 1982. She’s now in her mid 90’s. She was also one of the original founders of the Corvallis hand weavers guild in 1948 the year I was born. She is now in a nursing care center for Alzheimer patience.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Astoria Coastal Fiber Exhibit 2013</span> <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-7R--bz8paUs/Uj0hgsKGbYI/AAAAAAAAETg/FAufW_zw57Q/s1600-h/PaxCheneand-Blankie-copy---Copy13.jpg"><img alt="PaxCheneand Blankie copy - Copy" border="0" height="170" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-CS3Dd-fsQSU/Uj0hhfz9qoI/AAAAAAAAETk/xdOah9V_vco/PaxCheneand-Blankie-copy---Copy_thum.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="PaxCheneand Blankie copy - Copy" width="214" /></a><span style="color: #8000ff; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: small;">Pax Chene received an ATA award of excellence in the Astoria Coastal Arts Textile Exhibit this summer. It as one of two pieces of mine that were in the exhibit. The other was “And He…” These photos were some I snapped at the opening. <span style="color: red;"><u>They are just meant to give the feel and general layout of the exhibit-not highlight specific works. </u> </span>There was one wall that I was unable to photograph I couldn’t get a shot of the two walls of the structure my pieces were hanging on. The opening was well attended. I could never find a space clear of people so that I could take a photo. There were some amazing tapestries in the exhibit. Jan Austin, Rebecca Metzoff, Su Eagen, Audrey Moore, Nicki Blair, Terry Olsen, Diane Wolf and several other tapestry weavers whose names I know I missed. One of the major awards went to a tapestry weaver from back east whose name I failed to write down. But, They are just to the left of my birthday scarf from Pat Scarf t which was also in the exhibit.</span> <br />
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<tr> <td valign="top" width="645"><span style="color: red; font-family: Britannic Bold; font-size: large;">So this is a pet peeve and a rant. <span style="color: red; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">I</span></span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;">gnore it if you wish. </span>I am grateful that this show was done and acknowledge the amount of great work that went into it. It’s not just this exhibit but it seems to be a standard practice in every show I have been in in the last few years. Both my pieces were mounted in “Salon Style”and in away that did neither of the pieces justice. Every small format tapestry in the exhibit was hung one above the other.It always feels so disrespectful of the work. It made it really difficult to view some spectacular Small Format work that was in the exhibit. While larger pieces were given a space and hung in away that made them much easier to view and not double hung. Art work should be hung at eye level for the best view of a work of art. Not so high it can’t be seen or so low you have to stoop to see it. The argument is always it’s away to crowd more work into a smaller space. SO why do the small format pieces have to bear the brunt of crowding and bad spacing? I think its like saying the small format tapestry work isn’t important enough to have it’s own space. So be grateful it’s in the show no matter how it’s hung so we can have a proper look for the large format work. It feels like “ yeah, you can participate, but the small format work isn’t deserving of being viewed properly and so go sit in the back of the bus.” It always feels so disrespectful of the work-not just mine but all</span></span> small format tapestry weavers.</td> </tr>
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<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: x-large;">One of the many wonderful things I got to do this summer</span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">was visit the Cloisters after I taught at MAFA. I have around 200 detail shots of the tapestries not just the Unicorn tapestry. I am doing a lot of studying of those details and gleaning a lot of useful information from those shots. I am hoping to start organizing the materials in my journal when I get back from My Alaskan cruise. Those things that look hatches and hachures are not. They are woven i n the direction the warp travels. The tapestries were turned sideways when woven creating a sort of vertical hachure. Now that my remodel is done I am going to be offering classes in the studio. The first one on “Soumack and friends” will take place on November 2-4th of this year. The second one will be on Jan31-February 2 will be on colour blending and the use of Hatches, Hachures and their Cohorts</span>.<br />
Here’s a few of my favourite shots and details.<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: x-large;">I have a plan</span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;"> for I am weaving next. I wanted to be free to start the pieces when I got back from Alaska-one involves a truck not making it through an under pass 2 blocks </span><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-q4yQiXng9nE/Uj0hvy-jo2I/AAAAAAAAEXA/yvFMGGaiaMU/s1600-h/DSC_0217%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;"></span></a><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-q4yQiXng9nE/Uj0hvy-jo2I/AAAAAAAAEbo/oBLMQD6yzdk/s1600-h/DSC_0217%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0217" height="244" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-gLLiFs1rqI8/Uj0hwr3RbAI/AAAAAAAAEbw/HFtPklOKns4/DSC_0217_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="display: inline; float: left;" title="DSC_0217" width="161" /></a></span><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-l7WEGK3ndoU/Uj0hxBAplII/AAAAAAAAEXM/Knx0GI5FhmI/s1600-h/DSCN0243%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;"></span></a><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-l7WEGK3ndoU/Uj0hxBAplII/AAAAAAAAEb4/Mqc05gH-z7E/s1600-h/DSCN0243%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img alt="DSCN0243" height="184" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-l5swWjCK1sk/Uj0hxSb4_MI/AAAAAAAAEb8/r-VXPeF3yNA/DSCN0243_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="DSCN0243" width="240" /></a></span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">from my home with crochet lace and Jacob roses. What could be better a turquoise truck to match my fingernails.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">The other incorporate black tree branches that looked lace in several pictures that I took near Hardin, Montana and photos that Trish Heath took that </span>evening generously said I could use in my colour studies took of a smoky sunset in Albany with incredible colours that you don’t often see in Albany Sunsets. My camera was still packed at the time.<br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: x-large;">Still working on my research on soumack--</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I have been scurrying through all my books and notes again because of a statement by a member of a list I am on. His comment was to the effect that the raised outlining and surface texture on many Coptic weavings was actually needlework that was applied after the textile was woven.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">SO I quickly went raced back to several of my books to see if it was possible I had made a mistake. When I was teaching myself to do it I studied 4-5 fragments in the OSU collection and decided it had to be done as woven because the wraps never pierced a warp or weft and it always seemed to be controlled by the placement of the warps. The our other names for the flying shuttle technique are French Arrondiment and Ressaut or ressort. One book called it ressort and related it back to crappaud(Mary Rhodes book Small Woven Tapestries). All of the other books-The Coptic Tapestry Albums by Hoskins, Woven Structures, by Mallert and a new book The threads Course in Tapestry by Mette Lise Rossing. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I first read about the technique in Tapestry Mirror of History by Thomsen in the late 70’s and have had an ongoing fascination with it every since. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">My research and theirs seem to verify that it was done by wrapping around warps as woven. Of course , they are mostly makers and not not museum curators. What I did note was that several major museums referred to it as an embroidery technique, but never said if the embroidery was applied after or as woven. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Flying Shuttle- The technique of carrying an extra weft thread of contrasting color on a supplementary shuttle, to create fine internal lines or pattern details. The flying shuttle thread is secured at intervals by catching it under a warp thread. A technique that appears unique to Coptic weaving.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><b>Soumack:</b> A supplemental, decorative stitch used for surface decoration and texture on Coptic tapestries. The soumack thread is wrapped around each warp, or group of warp threads, usually on a diagonal. Used to define lines, or create outlines.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;">I have run out of time again.</span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"> So, hopefully, in 2 weeks I’ll be able to do another blog entry and have more information on my research into soumac</span><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-UiGoqsOYSbU/Uj0h1eJCvSI/AAAAAAAAEYQ/h7z7qZ5ll9E/s1600-h/DSCN0232%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"></span></a><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-UiGoqsOYSbU/Uj0h1eJCvSI/AAAAAAAAEc4/w9ySjEnQE_E/s1600-h/DSCN0232%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSCN0232" height="184" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-u92hOyRSiWQ/Uj0h121wPMI/AAAAAAAAEdA/LoxkbdmVmpM/DSCN0232_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="display: inline; float: right;" title="DSCN0232" width="240" /></a></span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">k and it’s friends and my new woven samplers. The two pictures are from a recent day trip to eastern Oregon. The mountain in the background is Mt. Washing a mountain I climbed many times when I was much younger. My Fascination was to climb the rock cliffs to the top and and boot ski the scree to the bottom. </span><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-UDA_SnTv8as/Uj0h2f57fZI/AAAAAAAAEYc/3altaXjliCo/s1600-h/DSCN0223%25255B14%25255D.jpg"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"></span></a><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-UDA_SnTv8as/Uj0h2f57fZI/AAAAAAAAEdI/ovXZ612G_lY/s1600-h/DSCN0223%25255B15%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN0223" height="184" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-nNMNiUs4goY/Uj0h272al2I/AAAAAAAAEdQ/aUrUINfCp4k/DSCN0223_thumb%25255B12%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="display: inline; float: left;" title="DSCN0223" width="240" /></a></span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">The there is a photo of Chene as we tried to convince him to get out of the air conditioned car to walk on the pumice beds. Finally ended up packing him around. Smart dog! It was really hot that day. I ended up with blisters. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Cheers and all,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Kathe</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09602511849713822619noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724368769805213.post-54459344421582532013-06-18T14:07:00.001-07:002013-06-18T14:10:50.416-07:00In Search of UFOS(unfinished objects in studio)<b>Sometimes event(s) conspire to create storm and debris surges and an overload of UFOS’s. Believe me there has been more then enough of this conspiring going on for the last 9 months in my life. </b><br />
<b><span style="color: #8000ff; font-size: medium;">What is a Storm/debris Surge?</span></b>A storm surge is a mound of water produced when a hurricane moves across a large body of water. Driving wind “pushes”<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-8f2-R5wylt4/UcDL6QhLWZI/AAAAAAAAEB0/2sxGL5htdvY/s1600-h/DSCN5113%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN5113" border="0" height="139" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-DWkOTDubVH8/UcDL6rAud_I/AAAAAAAAEB8/dF3AuQdc0cg/DSCN5113_thumb%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN5113" width="76" /></a> the water and debris so quickly that it “piles up” on the water in front of it, producing a mound of water and debris that is higher<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-YYmz-U-LDng/UcDL7GKTCmI/AAAAAAAAECE/5fmRkTm2K4E/s1600-h/IMG_1048%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="IMG_1048" border="0" height="91" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-eeVsjs8zLPU/UcDL7nbrluI/AAAAAAAAECI/JUJCAcWWqlk/IMG_1048_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1048" width="99" /></a> than normal sea level. An apt description of my last months 9 months. <br /> The storm surge can be pushed up the beach and deep into inland areas carrying everything in its path to places that seem or have seemed impossible to be. It arrives as a rush of water or an event and can be capped by large, strong, pounding waves. Storm surge flooding i<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-vfu4EMR3GBM/UcDL8M2u9-I/AAAAAAAAECU/Fqot7fGwQ_A/s1600-h/ike-debris%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="ike-debris" border="0" height="143" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-_-kIr1iD4x0/UcDL8U8TqpI/AAAAAAAAECc/_tNlSgA6KoU/ike-debris_thumb%25255B9%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="ike-debris" width="144" /></a>s often the most deadly and damaging impact of a hurricane that and what it leaves behind…<br />
<span style="color: red;">reality and what it actu<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-BxwtmXcChzM/UcDL8nJ5nUI/AAAAAAAAECk/ENivAcZCby0/s1600-h/DSCN5127%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN5127" border="0" height="108" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-UL4LqjIUKyw/UcDL9E48hXI/AAAAAAAAECs/-kivj-gathw/DSCN5127_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN5127" width="135" /></a>ally isn’t, but feels like</span><br />
<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Brush Script MT; font-size: large;">Storm surges always lead</span> to events such as UFOS an acronym for Unfinished Objects in studio. <br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Chiller; font-size: large;">“Anecdotal studies”</span> by this - - - - - - (-please fill in blank--researcher, me, weaver, instructor) have established that the majority of UFOS observations are misidentified conventional objects or natural phenomena and are most commonly <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-LsP-7iuPZa0/UcDL9gKRZQI/AAAAAAAAEC0/EDdjZr5upGw/s1600-h/DSCN5126%25255B12%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN5126" border="0" height="91" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-hg56uQl_ujU/UcDL9xFPY6I/AAAAAAAAEC4/-Kbb0rmMKTE/DSCN5126_thumb%25255B9%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN5126" width="118" /></a>interrupted needful projects put on the back burner by debris and storm surges with a small percentage even being hoaxes.<sup><a href="http://www.blogger.com/">[8]</a></sup> After excluding incorrect reports, however, most investigators and seekers have acknowledged that<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-HtUvdAVkPEo/UcDL-D2BZoI/AAAAAAAAEDE/AVvM7L7GJp0/s1600-h/DSCN5097%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSCN5097" border="0" height="102" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-VzbhyKzVkZg/UcDL-iuF1hI/AAAAAAAAEDI/0n8WXlkUFB0/DSCN5097_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN5097" width="132" /></a> between 5% and 20% of reported sightings remain unexplained, and therefore can be classified as unidentified and unfinished in the strictest sense. Many of these reports are deduced visual accountings from observers. Some involving simultaneous sittings by trained(?) observers-husbands, co-conspirators, other involved partners, arm chair quarter backs and <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-fUofJp9eNo0/UcDL-xdvTzI/AAAAAAAAEDU/pazBpbUOaO4/s1600-h/IMG_0981%25255B11%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="IMG_0981" border="0" height="176" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-eFmlSUxSUaA/UcDL_KAISEI/AAAAAAAAEDY/KxHnnEFpa4w/IMG_0981_thumb%25255B11%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0981" width="118" /></a>sideliners. Proponents of the extraterrestrial hypothesis suggest that these unexplained reports are of alien UFOS’s though various other hypotheses have been proposed.(<span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;">with a little help from Wikipedia and my vivid imagination)</span><br />
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There has been some debate in the home, Calapooia Brew Pub, within cars and other unnamed places about whether any scientific investigation into UFOS sightings is warranted, but all agree they should just be termed hazardous materials and disposed of in a safe way.<br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: large;">SO what have I been doing since I last wrote.</span> There have been Workshops and trips to Seattle, D.C. and now in a few hours MAFA in Pennsylvania and a week later a trip to Montana. I won in honorable mention in National Fiber Directions, I finished a <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-mRlnj9U71Lk/UcDMAUtpkvI/AAAAAAAAED0/ZwB6UQJGoIw/s1600-h/Possession_956-600%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="Possession_956-600" border="0" height="126" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-_HnQIyjJqUg/UcDMAk6XJEI/AAAAAAAAED4/m5wBoF2iW-E/Possession_956-600_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Possession_956-600" width="84" /></a>piece for the Firestorm exhibit and I am finally ready to finish up “And He.. that will be in the NW Coastal Fiber Arts 2013. and a Piece in the ATA small format exhibit opening in Tacoma.<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-_OiwAqw49rI/UcDMBA9TzxI/AAAAAAAAEEE/81As_kRO7Mg/s1600-h/DSC_0347%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSC_0347" border="0" height="244" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-FJ84QV7hv20/UcDMBXMOoCI/AAAAAAAAEEI/WQThnjVAInA/DSC_0347_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0347" width="165" /></a> I have finished all the paper work on my Dad’s estate and attended Troy my oldest Grandson’s high school graduation and have become involved in the Calapooia arts Gallery a co-op Gallery in down town Albany, Or…I now own one of my favourite tapestries by Linda Rees. Spent a whole day looking at 4-5 tapestries <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-KRPzT8d2RGA/UcDMBxnTNwI/AAAAAAAAEEU/VMwhZX6lh2k/s1600-h/DSC_0336%25255B10%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0336" border="0" height="244" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-fTV1xx8HWHk/UcDMCLuaGbI/AAAAAAAAEEY/KCgN6VguoTA/DSC_0336_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0336" width="165" /></a>in the national art Museum and taking photo’s for future use.<br />
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Part B of “There has got to be a Morning After!” Part A of course was the fire piece.<br />
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Of course, I would love to show them together sometime, but for now I am just really glad they are finished and at least one is showing in the<span style="font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: small;"> <span style="color: red;">Woven together Firestorm Exhibit</span></span> in Colorado Springs. . <br />
<span style="font-family: Chiller; font-size: x-large;">Which Again leaves me seeking more UFOS in my Studio!<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-XwQpB5Tm2d8/UcDMEhhHxpI/AAAAAAAAEFU/MVMiiCdCwdc/s1600-h/DSCN5129%25255B8%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSCN5129" border="0" height="244" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-xyA-hmV0SMY/UcDMFPBo5nI/AAAAAAAAEFY/RqgXltdBlJ8/DSCN5129_thumb%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN5129" width="184" /></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">I have managed to weave about an inch more in the last month of so on this piece. It seems to be the biggest most outstanding UFO in the studio. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">After I come back from from Montana my plan is to work a week or two and then head for Santa fee to do some weaving with my friend Diane and maybe a couple of other things that haven’t been planned yet. So this will be my constant companion until finished. </span><br />
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<b><i>The Losers</i></b><b> [1.4] </b><br />
<b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/">Marshall Teller</a></b>: Eerie, Indiana, day 94. You wouldn't believe how easy it is to lose stuff here. I mean stuff that was there a minute ago would just vanish the moment you turn your back. Gone, disappeared, lost forever. I figure, Eerie is caught in some electromagnetic vortex that messes up the tracking system we humans use to find stuff. Funny, but it seems to be hitting Dad the hardest. <br />
<b> <br />Marshall</b>: Without warning I was on a bumpy slide to the centre of the Earth. I was ready for anything... except what actually happened. <br />
<b>Marshall</b>: I had no idea what hole I'd fallen through to land here, in the Bureau of Lost. But this made Alice in Wonderland look like a day at the beach.<br />
<span style="color: blue;">Wikipedia-synopsis of Eerie. Indiana series</span></td> </tr>
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<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;">Somewhere in the last several months.</span> I have been or have decided to find a way to challenge myself to try and adapt patterning and more different kinds of back ground into my work. I have been perusing the Zen Tangle designs and using them as a text book to help me learn to doodle and be more playful and fill up space. While journaling I have sort of discovered that I don’t really know how to just <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-uJf5Yx01YOE/UcDMFV8mGcI/AAAAAAAAEFk/JDY80y70YJ0/s1600-h/DSCN5110%25255B11%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN5110" border="0" height="244" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-j0bPXnpKRKc/UcDMFhZSyHI/AAAAAAAAEFs/dq3Kvnt7F8I/DSCN5110_thumb%25255B13%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN5110" width="223" /></a>sit and play with drawing for the last several decades my drawings have always been very directed and driven to end goal. I have been spending about an hour a day for the last month just trying some of the design elements-mixing and matching. I have found some almost impossible for me to do because of my Dyslexia. Angles and repeated angled things have a tendency to be difficult for me to draw-reversing and dancing away in the wrong directions. I also have a tendency to skinny things up and not make ends meet together. Here are a couple that I copied and adapted a little from several Zen tangle books. I would not really call anything-the drawings I have done original art work. They are strictly derivative of 2 or 3 Zen tangle books. Just a prod towards a slightly different thought pattern <br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Old English Text MT; font-size: x-large;">Of Soumack and Other Things-</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">For those of you who keep asking me about when I am going to teach another Soumack and Line class in the NW. I am going to teach one in the studio this fall. It will be a 3-4 day workshop. This is a class I love teaching. It’s being changed up a bit. I am adding more techniques that are in the soumack family, but aren't necessarily called soumack-rya, Cicim, brocading, Zilli. I am also beginning to emphasis background and design that these <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-4_y2wJvMKp0/UcDMJWelT4I/AAAAAAAAEG0/s7h2blmcUrQ/s1600-h/DSCN5123%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN5123" border="0" height="130" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-31uCj-VcnMY/UcDMJgf2rWI/AAAAAAAAEG4/1lXQMeHSANc/DSCN5123_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN5123" width="169" /></a>techniques float over and around. I am Adding bobbin blending and hatches. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">If anyone is interested please contact me. I will in the next month begin adding tapestry classes that I want to teach in my studio and accepting more private students. </span> <span style="color: red;"> This is something I had hoped to be begin doing in January, but life got in the way. </span><br />
<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;">Have to go pack. Before I run out time. I am leaving to teach at MAFA in about 6 hours. I am spending 3 days after the conference to go see the cloisters and then race back down to DC to visit with my Grandchildren. Twice in two months. I am blessed!</span><br />
<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;">More later,</span><br />
<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;">kathe<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-4vcnEl3KFGc/UcDMJ4J_qkI/AAAAAAAAEHA/GqyaiYv4zwo/s1600-h/DSCN5093%25255B11%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSCN5093" border="0" height="184" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-9QS_82Ob9zc/UcDMKYw5MxI/AAAAAAAAEHM/KVuSACfPSO4/DSCN5093_thumb%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN5093" width="244" /></a></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;"> </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09602511849713822619noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724368769805213.post-79889650906130844852013-04-06T16:20:00.001-07:002013-04-06T16:24:16.087-07:00Apophenia<b><span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;">Apophenia</span></b> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English">/</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key">æ</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key">p</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key">ɵ</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key">ˈ</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key">f</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key">iː</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key">n</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key">i</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key">ə</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English">/</a> is the experience of seeing meaningful patterns or connections in random or meaningless data.<span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;">Wikipedia</span><br />
<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-x1ehq3x84cU/UWCtXsbHd0I/AAAAAAAAD54/nj0X31B2F9A/s1600-h/Alice_in_Wonderland%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="Jesse Wilcox 1923" border="0" height="169" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-FC11kowlzcM/UWCtX0uC69I/AAAAAAAAD6A/wwqqMV57CCo/Alice_in_Wonderland_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Jesse Wilcox 1923" width="158" /></a><span style="font-family: French Script MT; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">'<span style="font-family: Lucida Handwriting;">The </span></span><strong><span style="font-family: Lucida Handwriting;"><span style="font-size: small;">rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday--but never jam to-day.' <br />'It MUST come sometimes to "jam to-day,"' Alice objected. <br />'No, it can't,' said the Queen. 'It's jam every OTHER day: to-day isn't any OTHER day, you know.' <br />'I don't understand you,' said Alice. 'It's dreadfully confusing!' <br />'That's the effect of living backwards,' the Queen said kindly: 'it always makes one a little giddy at first--' <br />'Living backwards!' Alice repeated in great astonishment. 'I never heard of such a thing!' <br />'--but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways.' <br />'I'm sure MINE only works one way,' Alice remarked. 'I can't remember things before they happen.'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' the Queen remarked.</span><strong><span style="color: #0080ff; font-size: xx-small;">Lewis Carol illustration Jessica Wilcox 1923</span></strong></span></strong></span><br />
<strong><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-TtEijWXrkKQ/UWCtYf346DI/AAAAAAAAD6I/hxmun9DGeW8/s1600-h/theresGotTobeAMorningAfter%25252CTodd-Hooker%25252Ckathe%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="theresGotTobeAMorningAfter,Todd-Hooker,kathe" border="0" height="114" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-GZMdLpsp22s/UWCtYljYapI/AAAAAAAAD6Q/UONMF2NOaNE/theresGotTobeAMorningAfter%25252CTodd-Hooker%25252Ckathe_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="theresGotTobeAMorningAfter,Todd-Hooker,kathe" width="146" /></a>The Small format tapestry I finished yesterday is called “There has got to be a morning after?”, size- 4 inches by 6 inches. I have one more left in this series of 2. I assume a series can be only two much like one can’t become a serial killer until they have killed 3 times.I suppose there does need to be rules about such things. I began working on it today for a few hours. It is a sunrise of a mountain, clouds and the end of a burn. Also, 4 by 6 inches. These 2 pieces are all about something that happened when I was in high school camping with my family and a wildfire that crowned close by. We were trapped for a while and later evacuated. The second is of the breaking daylight over a mountain and it’s uncanny stillness the morning after. </strong><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Jokerman; font-size: large;">I am staring at the keys of my computer keyboard</span> trying to figure out where the start of this blog should be. Not exactly overwhelmed but not underwhelmed either with the time between<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-fRpaqawpQ08/UWCtZFI_kpI/AAAAAAAAD6Y/085B_ld0rcA/s1600-h/3635153138_9ba0f17d86_o%25255B3%25255D.gif"><img align="right" alt="3635153138_9ba0f17d86_o" border="0" height="104" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Nkx-RwmOepI/UWCtZR6kTuI/AAAAAAAAD6g/ECLRci10P78/3635153138_9ba0f17d86_o_thumb%25255B1%25255D.gif?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="3635153138_9ba0f17d86_o" width="78" /></a> this and my last blog. I have been rather ill for the last month. One random event lead to another to create a series of events. To quote one source “Concurrent events that first appear to be coincidental but later turn out to be causally related are termed <i>in coincident</i>.” But according to Jung life is not a series of random events but rather an expression of a deeper order, which he referred to as <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unus_mundus">Unus mundus</a></i>. <span style="background-color: #333333; color: lime; font-family: Jokerman; font-size: small;">On the other hand</span> there is a psychiatric condition called Apophenia which probably really applies to th<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-hl_aefzFJDM/UWCtZuwVHBI/AAAAAAAAD6o/zQMm4aySn70/s1600-h/DSC_0144%25255B8%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0144" border="0" height="244" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-bCvpCbwEaRg/UWCtaLwFtRI/AAAAAAAAD6w/Rk-m6pfYH58/DSC_0144_thumb%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0144" width="213" /></a>is last 6 months.<br />
<span style="font-family: Chiller; font-size: x-large;"> <span style="color: blue;">One</span></span><span style="color: blue;"> </span>of the things that happens when I am spending to much time being sick is I have a tendency to read things that may or may not be nonsensical or very random. <br />
<span style="color: #9b00d3;">still not finished, but further along then last time</span><br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: x-large;">Reading</span> always makes me feel better. <br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Chiller;"> So</span> I have had an<span style="font-family: Chiller;"> <span style="color: #8000ff;">orgy</span></span> of reading for the last month. So some of the books I found to read in the last month are: 4-5 cheap-in the Victorian sense- novels that I refuse/embarrassed to name, Jungs:<u> Man and His Symbols</u>, and<u> Memories, Dreams and Reflections</u>(couldn’t find a copy of <u>The Red book)</u> I am never quite sure if I really understand Jung or if I just enjoy feeling confused like some do feeling scared. Interesting thought comparing Jung to Stephen King. <u> </u> <u>The Black Count</u>(the real count of Monte Cristo) by-Reiss,(I think I have read every book by his Grandson-Alexander) <u>The Burges Tapestry</u> by Staies, Annotated Grimm's Fairy Tale, Persian Carpets by Volmar Gantzhorn(which turned out to be the most interesting of everything I read. It is a comprehensive history of rugs and how the designs influenced other crafts from a slightly Armenian bent.<br />
<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-lXVNQ_yDdq0/UWCtacH2xhI/AAAAAAAAD64/PXu3P5qjyng/s1600-h/IMG%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="IMG" border="0" height="117" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-i8ZSJ-V1ihM/UWCtantFvcI/AAAAAAAAD7A/gC5dL7k_moU/IMG_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG" width="113" /></a> I received a gift of a beautiful book A Passion for roses; The note books of Henri Delbard with Watercolours by Fabrice Moireau(It’s so beautiful <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-xB2rftGhoFg/UWCtbAoDVwI/AAAAAAAAD7I/5nRYrIVQI2o/s1600-h/Don%252520Norris%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="Don Norris" border="0" height="148" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-qm0Hsq4sz_k/UWCtbe_T73I/AAAAAAAAD7Q/Bao6xpVdPP0/Don%252520Norris_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Don Norris" width="116" /></a> <br />I can’t stop looking at it. Thanks Diane K.) <span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">AND</span> a copy from Don Norris of his new book on beginning Silversmithing. (Great job!!!! Don. I am fascinated by it. Don is my favourite silversmithing teacher)<br />
Tuesday I find out if I am well enough/healed enough to go back to exercising and other things that have been held on hold for a month. One of the biggest is finishing up the house re-do and my spring gardening/clean-up. <br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: large;">So Why have I had so much time to read?</span><br />
It all started with my getting my teeth cleaned. Something I do 3 times a year and ends I hope with my being able to get rid of an infection left over from the oral surgery to repair a rather large hole that was punched into my sinus by something that was supposed to be “no big deal”. All because my original Dentist failed to see a rather large cavity on a back molar that she should have been able to see for about 4 years in the 12 times that she supposedly cleaned my teeth at a cost of 268.00 each time. This year has been on surprise after another beginning with my Dad’s death In December. Actually it may have started earlier then that like in September-a long dry hot spell the necessitated a new roof in the middle of terrible down pours-finally settled on just doing the half that was leaking torrents of water into a newly remodeled laundry room from there it’s been one in coincident .<br />
<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;">Found another soumack and tapestry rug.</span> Some of it’s in rough shape, but for <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-2Rp7I1bAeok/UWCtb2_3E4I/AAAAAAAAD7Y/50y0kiNvELc/s1600-h/DSC_0201%25255B9%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0201" border="0" height="109" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-YuEeI8mCpXg/UWCtcHLBseI/AAAAAAAAD7g/PmcOPoFbvG8/DSC_0201_thumb%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0201" width="157" /></a>the most part good enuff to study. Perhaps, I’ll make it into a smaller rug, but for now I sit on the<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-XxAdLRiERHk/UWCtckRUPRI/AAAAAAAAD7o/Q9anHSejBLk/s1600-h/DSC_0202%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><img alt="DSC_0202" border="0" height="100" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Cn8oyvef5RU/UWCtc5sB0eI/AAAAAAAAD7s/CLTjA4gPtYY/DSC_0202_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0202" width="144" /></a> <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-IRzCd-MM-ss/UWCtdepY15I/AAAAAAAAD74/5N_PFlqwfsc/s1600-h/DSC_0203%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><img alt="DSC_0203" border="0" height="98" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-5hL_bh82Iio/UWCtdv4yJdI/AAAAAAAAD8A/vJCMZfZ8ZwA/DSC_0203_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0203" width="140" /></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-9Xn2A-HBFy4/UWCteVirylI/AAAAAAAAD8I/mIBdXDmEDNE/s1600-h/DSC_0205%25255B8%25255D.jpg"><img alt="DSC_0205" border="0" height="120" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-KdBIgVrucO8/UWCteleLtqI/AAAAAAAAD8Q/Av3HSEIZpZ0/DSC_0205_thumb%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0205" width="172" /></a>floor and study it. <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-6ZSUdAdpjRM/UWCte8ltJfI/AAAAAAAAD8Y/T4JAa5Ck1DY/s1600-h/DSC_0204%25255B10%25255D.jpg"><img alt="DSC_0204" border="0" height="111" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-aB46OOy0klo/UWCtfYm-aqI/AAAAAAAAD8g/-srkIECirKw/DSC_0204_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0204" width="159" /></a><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-duIGo_3oCw0/UWCtfrsXXeI/AAAAAAAAD8o/OSUYeWC_wPI/s1600-h/DSC_0206%25255B10%25255D.jpg"><img alt="DSC_0206" border="0" height="107" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-EHtL1LmyUrE/UWCtgEPd58I/AAAAAAAAD8w/a41NZ2P5N_M/DSC_0206_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0206" width="150" /></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-okTyvmhoWSQ/UWCtgpWmvAI/AAAAAAAAD84/K_BXacInGkY/s1600-h/DSC_0207%25255B11%25255D.jpg"><img alt="DSC_0207" border="0" height="108" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-HA1QMlBZPkg/UWCthMacHyI/AAAAAAAAD9A/mHmZqfII1dw/DSC_0207_thumb%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0207" width="155" /></a><br />
There is one part that is totally shredded, but the shredding allows me to see how the technique may have been done. The actual colour of the weft was most likely the colour of the reverse side below, Beautiful colours.What it shows me w<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-lYhnuUDFcoU/UWCthljYRfI/AAAAAAAAD9I/_zLsKbJbWgE/s1600-h/DSC_0208%25255B9%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSC_0208" border="0" height="165" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-4CJbIUDojjk/UWCth9xP4YI/AAAAAAAAD9Q/rLTyQalxvjE/DSC_0208_thumb%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0208" width="244" /></a>hen I look at the shredding is that these particular squares were actually a form of double weave-two warps used as one warp-in a 1-2-3-2-1 diamond shape. The vertical and diagonal lines lines are soumack. The red sample is done in the same way with the exception of the two red and white borders being soumack. <br />
<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-0HGvU1d1huE/UWCtieI1-BI/AAAAAAAAD9Y/NXKyxdjZf54/s1600-h/DSC_0211%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img alt="DSC_0211" border="0" height="142" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-m-oY3gYOYAI/UWCti3gndWI/AAAAAAAAD9g/dttG_Y6m_WU/DSC_0211_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0211" width="205" /></a> <br />
<span style="font-family: Brush Script MT; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: blue;">Teaching in California</span> <span style="color: blue;">at</span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Inland Empire Hand Weavers guild</span> <span style="color: blue;">was so much fun.</span></span><br />
It was so odd to see spring in the flats or almost spring and then look up and see snow on the hills behind us . It was interesting. <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-LCvMGv7e_88/UWCtjHwqQII/AAAAAAAAD9o/fjLYJR6iWZ4/s1600-h/DSC_0148%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0148" border="0" height="105" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-3GGMNlxZOS0/UWCtjj_9ZmI/AAAAAAAAD9w/-4b1LSeQ5vc/DSC_0148_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0148" width="151" /></a>Meant some very interesting people that I would love to run into again. It was a large group 13-14 participants. The highlight of the trip-one of them-was the partial destruction of my computer by the airlines. Good news is I am replacing it. The dent knocked something loose and it wa<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-ZIow7-gTZK8/UWCtj36OQ2I/AAAAAAAAD94/dvS4JBLyU8g/s1600-h/DSC_0149%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSC_0149" border="0" height="114" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-RS4NLzXcCHQ/UWCtkTGD3zI/AAAAAAAAD-A/GwwZJN3OhJQ/DSC_0149_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0149" width="157" /></a>s like it had developed dementia or Alzheimer's. It would loose itself in time and totally mess up whatever program it was working in, I ended up retrieving portions 3 PowerPoint presentations to combine into two lectures. So, much for the airlines being gentle with the carry on they confiscated. Janet Castro had made sure that all of the looms were warped in advance so we were able to cover a lot of ground in the class. It was a mixed level class. The colour blending's were incredibly beautiful that the participants wove especially the mélange and and chene’ samples.<br />
Finally, last put not least-Two of my students work I have pictures of some of !First--Cathie Beckman's work that she did while in the studio(Jacob's Rose-one of the most difficult coloured roses to weave) and two of her calendar flowers. The Jacob’s rose was taken while still on the loom and the other are finished work.<br />
<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Ft5R7opziVk/UWCtk-Q84wI/AAAAAAAAD-I/4eS_j5UHRmQ/s1600-h/IMG_0558%25255B11%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="IMG_0558" border="0" height="138" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-nWd_buYUySE/UWCtlSNdMvI/AAAAAAAAD-Q/f0noJoVUJWI/IMG_0558_thumb%25255B16%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_0558" width="162" /></a><br />
<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-2elxwzjdFio/UWCtl0RWwzI/AAAAAAAAD-Y/hNzEH1wxHCM/s1600-h/tapdays%252520feb%25255B8%25255D.jpg"><img alt="tapdays feb" border="0" height="140" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-NG8U3-t45WY/UWCtmDiR2JI/AAAAAAAAD-c/dogl1lv2GpA/tapdays%252520feb_thumb%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="tapdays feb" width="136" /></a><br />
<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Fm8T9xDRX1k/UWCtmpcy7LI/AAAAAAAAD-o/jhKzGSwTq1Y/s1600-h/tapdiarymarchweavo%25255B9%25255D.jpg"><img alt="tapdiarymarchweavo" border="0" height="140" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-4KbzHsHrly4/UWCtm97KQ1I/AAAAAAAAD-w/HhUycNQ0qvc/tapdiarymarchweavo_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="tapdiarymarchweavo" width="133" /></a><br />
The second student is one of my blog students Patti Kirsch. These are samples that she did illustrating one of the exercises we are doing in on colour theory. I am doing the exercises with her that will be included in the new Colour Theory book that Pat Spark and I are working on.<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-BmyDWeJjXZA/UWCtnA_t8FI/AAAAAAAAD-4/IdQBh2G9Lw4/s1600-h/DSC_0068%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img alt="DSC_0068" border="0" height="126" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/--68-rhbCOro/UWCtngBROJI/AAAAAAAAD_A/qkqMLPSmxR4/DSC_0068_thumb%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0068" width="244" /></a><br />
Time to end! Before I am really late and Chene” becomes to bored<br />
<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-m5hA0uRISH8/UWCtn7poYsI/AAAAAAAAD_I/FdEAMTCuof0/s1600-h/Alice_in_Wonderland%25255B9%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="Jesse Wilcox 1923" border="0" height="211" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-q9i5ZJo_bjI/UWCtoeekHuI/AAAAAAAAD_Q/eGe26oHo3CE/Alice_in_Wonderland_thumb%25255B10%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Jesse Wilcox 1923" width="162" /></a><br />
<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-ke2-tzgFz4c/UWCtovgdIpI/AAAAAAAAD_Y/fGYYaMCyGSM/s1600-h/DSC_0135%25255B14%25255D.jpg"><img alt="DSC_0135" border="0" height="244" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-2nTtA-YJLA4/UWCto1aViGI/AAAAAAAAD_g/9qF6Al362XM/DSC_0135_thumb%25255B16%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0135" width="234" /></a><br />
Cheers and all,<br />
katheAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09602511849713822619noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724368769805213.post-23860652508815443692013-01-26T20:38:00.001-08:002013-01-26T20:38:43.219-08:00Musings on entropy, times arrow, and tapestry<p align="left"><font color="#0000ff" size="6" face="Jokerman"></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#0000ff" size="6" face="Jokerman">Motion</font><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"> is a change in position of an object with respect to time and its reference point.</font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Motion signifies a continuous change in the configuration of a physical system. </font><font color="#ff0000" size="7" face="Jokerman">vs..</font></p> <p align="center"><b><font color="#9b00d3" size="6" face="Jokerman">“Entropy</font></b> <font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">is the only quantity in the physical sciences (apart from certain rare interactions in particle</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Z0GVTbgncUs/UQSvH8Dno9I/AAAAAAAADyc/17tdrXhh4wY/s1600-h/DSCN0521%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0521" border="0" alt="DSCN0521" align="left" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-7KHlbGYvdIs/UQSvIdlQzNI/AAAAAAAADyk/uC1wO3C842s/DSCN0521_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="129" height="175" /></a></p> <p align="center"><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"> physics;) </font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">that requires a particular direction for time, sometimes called an arrow of time. </font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">As one goes "forward" in time, the second law of thermodynamics says, the entropy of an isolated system will increase. </font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="1" face="Comic Sans MS">Loom picture with new work.</font></font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Hence, from one perspective, entropy measurement is a way of distinguishing the past from<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-CnfMdhEYvmY/UQSvI4KaM_I/AAAAAAAADys/ES_OTFWiPnA/s1600-h/DSCN0522%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0522" border="0" alt="DSCN0522" align="right" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-wCpHSsmWijE/UQSvJR_6axI/AAAAAAAADy0/GyA0z4s9Hho/DSCN0522_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="172" height="136" /></a> the future </font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">One of the ideas involved in the concept of entropy is that nature tends from order to disorder in isolated systems- <font color="#9b00d3">or towards possible chaos.</font></font></p> <p><font size="1" face="Comic Sans MS"></font></p> <blockquote> <p><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="1">                                                                                       Detail of new piece-not yet named.</font> </font></p> </blockquote> <p><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">I am weaving this is on my new smaller mirrix. It’s the 12 inch.</font></p> <p><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Perfect with the new regs. on bag sizes-since I need room to get my treadle in the bag also.</font></p> <h3><font size="2"></a></font></h3> <h3>Entropy as Time's Arrow</h3> <p><a href="http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/therm/entrop.html’"><font color="#4f81bd">http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/therm</font></a></a><font color="#4f81bd" size="2">/entrop.html’</font><img src="http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/therm/imgthe/timarr.gif" width="427" height="336" /></p> <p><b><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#9b00d3" size="5" face="Lucida Handwriting">Last time was all about getting started again.</font> </font></b></p> <p><b><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Lucida Calligraphy">The time the next step is movement or creating motion and avoiding the possible chaos of <font color="#ff00ff" size="5">“times arrow”.</font></font> </b></p> <p><strong></strong></p> <p>Movement is happening as to which direction the movement is going or if it is just a product of entropies possible chaos is left to be seen. Can never tell with entropy I know that chaos is rampant in the studio and,<font color="#00ff00"> </font></p> <p><font color="#00ff00"><font size="6" face="Chiller">of course,</font></font> it is tax season. Around here that means Spencer is working 9-9/24-7 at Block. Leaving <font color="#ff0000" size="6">me</font> to try and keep everything organized, flowing and <font color="#ff0000" size="5" face="Chiller">Chaos</font> at bay.  The<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-idRtvwlGjqI/UQSvJ0IYgoI/AAAAAAAADy8/Or_2hM5Sdd0/s1600-h/DSCN05223.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0522" border="0" alt="DSCN0522" align="right" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-pjV9OFBCI9I/UQSvKoWns_I/AAAAAAAADzE/l0H6FQGxa5o/DSCN0522_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></a> good news and showing movement is the solar goes up on the house Wednesday and the heat pumps should go up on Friday in the studio-warmth. The end of the remodel is <font color="#0000ff" size="5"><u><strong><em><font color="#ff00ff">nearer.</font></em></strong></u><font size="3">  <font color="#000000" face="Comic Sans MS">Bad news- I am still clearing out my Dad’s house.</font><strong><em> </em></strong></font></font></p> <p><strong><em><font color="#0000ff" size="5" face="Lucida Handwriting">Good News-I have started another piece. It doesn’t have a name yet. But is based on a smaller cartoon that I blew up to 8.5 by 11 inches.<font size="3"> I am working on the rock wall that I added to the other cartoon.  I have also added a feather as a writing utensil for the lines of the  dismembered or incomplete puzzle pieces. I would really like to have this finished by February 24. Yes, of this year! Doable if nothing else interferes.  </font></font></em></strong></p> <p><strong><em><u><font size="6" face="Brush Script MT">I finished</font></u></em></strong> a small sunset piece that is 1.5 inches by 8.5 inches. Wove four samples for the new book. They are 2 inches by 8-12 inches with the exception of one which is 3/4 inches by 8 inches on value. This tapestry design  is from a photo that I took at Christmas at Yachats hanging on the edge of a side of a cliff while trying to get the brush out of the frame. It’s part of a series of 320 photos that I took 20 seconds apart while the sun was going down. Still  hoping to photograph a Green Flash. The odds of even seeing one the second time are almost non existent, but I keep trying. This is the first time I am seeing the  this direction. It hasn’t been cut from the loom.  Feels really strange. I think I may like it better the other direction. The direction I wove it. </p> <p> </p> <p> <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-6pWbvEJdGuo/UQSvKzAfLlI/AAAAAAAADzM/kM7-AphYDWU/s1600-h/DSCN0524.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0524" border="0" alt="DSCN0524" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-qxY5OReFCFM/UQSvLby4QqI/AAAAAAAADzU/PA8BHNJgCmo/DSCN0524_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="558" height="127" /></a> <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-cmWDwAeRhTs/UQSvLs4UCZI/AAAAAAAADzc/OIS-iBCC6bY/s1600-h/FllashComics_GA_12.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="FllashComics_GA_1" border="0" alt="FllashComics_GA_1" align="left" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-TF5gxv4aZlo/UQSvL7Y0AuI/AAAAAAAADzk/36__G-_leLU/FllashComics_GA_1_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="176" height="244" /></a></p> <p>The green flash is actually an observable phenomena, Not the Comic book character. I saw a green flash about 15 years ago on the Oregon coast near Yachats, but didn’t get my camera turned on in time. </p> <p>Cover to <i>Flash Comics</i> #1 (Jan. 1940) <br />Art by Sheldon Moldoff- DC comics.</p> <p> </p> <p> <table border="4" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="200"><tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="200"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-XbIigsT7Oek/UQSvMRnTXWI/AAAAAAAADzs/zmqW87TRIMw/s1600-h/gflash6.gif"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="gflash" border="0" alt="gflash" align="left" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-LkKWUmeMwdY/UQSvMpBFZJI/AAAAAAAADz0/zOkImkjVdh4/gflash_thumb4.gif?imgmax=800" width="541" height="267" /></a></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-yxlq8Sv9il4/UQSvNPQM9lI/AAAAAAAADz8/7gXhuKW9H88/s1600-h/800px-Inferior_Mirage_green_flash3.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="800px-Inferior_Mirage_green_flash" border="0" alt="800px-Inferior_Mirage_green_flash" align="left" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-ZdVpKrc2Mj8/UQSvNRDY_LI/AAAAAAAAD0E/9Hx9abmsdas/800px-Inferior_Mirage_green_flash_th.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="159" /></a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><font color="#0000ff" size="1">Liberated from Wikipedia photos</font> </p> <p>My line piece was accepted into The ATA3 small format exhibit. Which has left me slightly bemused after seeing 4 examples from the exhibit that were used for advertising the exhibit j-pegs of several pieces that weren’t accepted.  I am not sure how or why my piece is in the exhibit for a dozen different reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of my work. I think I need to see the other 33 or so pieces before I do any real thinking about<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Bjs4vWHY2lk/UQSvNw4p7xI/AAAAAAAAD0M/3oV7rHbwE7w/s1600-h/DSCN052421.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0524" border="0" alt="DSCN0524" align="left" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-vYt5L2MFUbg/UQSvOTdlwrI/AAAAAAAAD0U/5aMzhawuDYg/DSCN0524_thumb25.jpg?imgmax=800" width="172" height="244" /></a> the exhibit. I am rapidly coming to the decision/conclusions that my designs are an anachronism. They just don’t fit anywhere in what’s going on in tapestry at this point in history. I see them almost as pictograph- pictorial narratives as opposed to created  objects or sculptural realization of an image.  It seems more and more that tapestry artist are moving away from the simple telling of a story in pictures or at least the  small format juried shows seem to be.   Doesn’t really matter anymore. I know what I want to weave and how I want to weave my images. I know, I know,  I have been told everything has it’s on story or narrative.  I want mine to read more as  Lakota “Winter Counts)  like the “doodles” or pictographs  my Grandmother kept to remind herself  of important things in her life.(see <a title="http://wintercounts.si.edu/flashindex.html" href="http://wintercounts.si.edu/flashindex.html">http://wintercounts.si.edu/flashindex.html</a>) This is a great exhibition and explanation of Winter counts</p> <p><font color="#ff00ff" size="5" face="Lucida Handwriting">I am really excited about the progress Pat and I are making on the new book.</font> The samples are fun to weave. <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-zCxW0mrX-9g/UQSvO0_y8UI/AAAAAAAAD0c/ru8Ha34exPY/s1600-h/DSC_07854.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC_0785" border="0" alt="DSC_0785" align="left" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-wkRQGxfWsQ4/UQSvPEtM1uI/AAAAAAAAD0k/VSJJO6eUq5Q/DSC_0785_thumb5.jpg?imgmax=800" width="85" height="244" /></a>Written explanations are a little-okay a lot more  more difficult as we combine to very different view points into a cohesive understanding of both.</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Q7q1E-zON18/UQSvPqRUgnI/AAAAAAAAD0s/zo023VAXHbc/s1600-h/DSCN05185.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0518" border="0" alt="DSCN0518" align="left" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-vwziJS-wEfE/UQSvQFT0YLI/AAAAAAAAD0w/JulT8vkm04s/DSCN0518_thumb7.jpg?imgmax=800" width="69" height="244" /></a><strong></strong></p> <p><b>These first two samples/ pictures are depicting what happens when you decide to subtract wefts from the weft bundle. It’s about trying to have more hatches in a given area for finer optical blending in the structural bridge colours of the hatches. The first one with the green was woven from paternayan and started with 4 threads in each weft bundle and moved to 1 thread in the weft bundle. We decided that as a sample it would be too difficult to photograph for the book-not contrasty enough. The second sample was woven with the Norwegian Alv yarns that FFP imports. There were 5 threads in the initial weft bundle. Each section is 1.75 inches tall by 2 inches wide.</b></p> <p><b></b></p> <p><b></b></p> <p><b></b></p> <p><b></b></p> <p><b></b></p> <p><b></b></p> <p><b></b><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-4lslfaYVhn4/UQSvQWkFEvI/AAAAAAAAD08/4GDT7YsFpsU/s1600-h/DSC_07834.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC_0783" border="0" alt="DSC_0783" align="left" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-AR8X4a8zYB0/UQSvQ0wr5MI/AAAAAAAAD1E/-L5aPDzHS10/DSC_0783_thumb6.jpg?imgmax=800" width="165" height="244" /></a></p> <p><b>This third sample is what happens when you mix a chene’ or mélange with hatches. Again with the alv yarns and at 10 epi. Progression is the same 1 thread off one weft bundle and added to the other weft bundle. One always has 5 threads in  the weft bundle. <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-fHRO16W-0Lc/UQSvRHqYExI/AAAAAAAAD1M/EzvbEu6jiRo/s1600-h/DSCN05195.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0519" border="0" alt="DSCN0519" align="right" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-jawKgf7cTFc/UQSvRfsEOqI/AAAAAAAAD1U/wEPe2HA6Hbo/DSCN0519_thumb5.jpg?imgmax=800" width="78" height="244" /></a></b></p> <p><b>The next sample is  a value run that I was trying to weave from light value to dark value.  It actually begins with white and runs into black. Each square is .75x.75 inches. The first problem that I ran into was there are no achromatic greys.  No one company has an even progression from light to dark.So were back to using colour aide papers and preprinted value cards.  Greys are usually produced by greying out or mixing a colour such as green or lavender, etc.. with the complement in the dye process. So I am in a quandary as to how to produce or weave an achromatic progression for the optical blending book Pat and I are writing. </b></p> <p><strong></strong></p> <p>As promised, Kay S. Here’s how I sometimes keep from pulling out my cartoon sewing thread and keep from loosing my needle. It involves a button and a knot.</p> <p><b></b></p> <p><b><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-KFbjVxN3_v8/UQSvRjruB3I/AAAAAAAAD1c/W7E39OWDa2Q/s1600-h/DSC_07909.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC_0790" border="0" alt="DSC_0790" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-DGvdPY2N7fE/UQSvSFrxMCI/AAAAAAAAD1k/YReRvnwm27I/DSC_0790_thumb6.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="165" /></a><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-wMrur5Vl1Y4/UQSvSj_v63I/AAAAAAAAD1s/mh_JFlQ7CiY/s1600-h/DSC_07926.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC_0792" border="0" alt="DSC_0792" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-4ZMZ9z5qseA/UQSvS6ICr1I/AAAAAAAAD10/V01xe-YYdO0/DSC_0792_thumb3.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="165" /></a>Hopefully you can see that the button is tied to the end of the thread and knotted as is the thread knotted at the base of the eye of my curved needle. The knot is pulled really tightly and is really no thicker then the needle. The knot slips right through the tapestry as I sew the cartoon to the back of my tapestry.</b></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-xZ3KDJWanjE/UQSvTc9Qz8I/AAAAAAAAD18/M910SEYsVpg/s1600-h/DSC_080717.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC_0807" border="0" alt="DSC_0807" align="right" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-dj-J6BG4sWc/UQSvT29_FTI/AAAAAAAAD2E/i3wWfY9og-I/DSC_0807_thumb14.jpg?imgmax=800" width="506" height="341" /></a></p> <p><b></b></p> <p><b></b></p> <p><b></b></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-lEkEutIGQio/UQSvUKFt9sI/AAAAAAAAD2M/GwpveQSMSIw/s1600-h/DSC_0810.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC_0810" border="0" alt="DSC_0810" align="right" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-mlEHGaMwgQE/UQSvUiDmapI/AAAAAAAAD2U/3YOKFT7BG8M/DSC_0810_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="387" height="384" /></a></p> <p> </p> <p><b><font color="#ff0000" size="4">Time to go</font>. Wry made the mistake of using Chene’s water bowl and food dish. Chene’s making sure Wry doesn’t do it again and ignoring the quiet command. Very related to one of my favourite tapestry by Pat Williams. </b></p> <p>Next time! Have fun! Weave a lot!</p> <p>kathe</p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09602511849713822619noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724368769805213.post-49349798789814883642013-01-11T19:33:00.001-08:002013-01-11T20:05:25.141-08:00Getting back or it’s more then about time!I have just had the longest period of time not weaving since I star<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-JFnq1oGVyyQ/UPDZWt2WPYI/AAAAAAAADq4/EQuyJ0bl0T0/s1600-h/HoopDance4.jpg"><img align="right" alt="HoopDance" border="0" height="244" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-_TsEQEPkxA0/UPDZXNaKfEI/AAAAAAAADrA/7dG-IYboaOc/HoopDance_thumb7.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="HoopDance" width="167" /></a>ted weaving tapestry in 1979. It’s been an interesting experience. Some good- some bad, but a necessary part of the circle of life. I am so ready to get back to tapestry weaving. <br />
<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: medium;">Hoop Dancing</span> is often the stories of beginnings, the tale of the cycle of life, the stories of life. It is said that a good hoop dancer finds their stories in the rustle of grasses, the blowing of leaves and the whisper of the wind. I saw my first hoop dance in 1976. It was all so close to the beginnings of women competing in the hoop dance competitions. By this time hoop dancing had already joined so many other things in the pan-Indian movements that the large powwows were creating and causing.One can’t really say that Hoop dancing is from one specific tribe-anymore. Each group or dancer put’s there own twist or twists to the hoop dance. So it’s almost become a universal in many tribes. It has always seemed appropriate to me that women should compete and tell the story of life in something that was based on the cycle of life. But, I <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-XbWkn_I5RcE/UPDZXvlCGJI/AAAAAAAADrI/42yfRP77Gdk/s1600-h/0529.jpg"><img align="left" alt="052" border="0" height="111" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-tiSWlSq9EIY/UPDZX7IOaGI/AAAAAAAADrQ/I23BGxO6Lzg/052_thumb9.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="052" width="121" /></a>am only a between and what do I know?<br />
<span style="font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: x-large;">On December 6</span>, <br />
my Fathers circle of life was completed, but is still entwined and connected with the rest of our circles of life that are connected and attached to the great circle of life. Dad was born in 1925 and lived a rich full life. <br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: medium;">Life can be a messy, and confusing</span> leaving great amounts of detrital/detritus, puzzlement and residue for some lucky soul in this case me to bring order to chaos.Transitions take time. So that’s how I have been spending most of the last month. Great amounts of sorting through papers and a life times accumulation from another's life and wondering why they kept the things they did.<br />
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<tr> <td valign="top" width="507"><strong><span style="font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;">detritus</span> (d<img align="absBottom" src="http://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/ibreve.gif" />-tr<img align="absBottom" src="http://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/imacr.gif" /><img align="absBottom" src="http://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/prime.gif" />t<img align="absBottom" src="http://img.tfd.com/hm/GIF/schwa.gif" />s)1. Loose fragments, such as sand or gravel, that have been worn away from rock.2. Matter produced by the decay or disintegration of an organic substance.<span style="font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;">detrital</span> adjective</strong></td> </tr>
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On the studio level or my personal work-With the exception of a 4 day retreat to the coast with <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-krKsQNpCME8/UPDZYzPvaOI/AAAAAAAADrY/QP-zgJMPiVg/s1600-h/DSC_06869.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0686" border="0" height="85" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Rd-I24oIAbo/UPDZZMizZRI/AAAAAAAADrc/AUPFnqct_OA/DSC_0686_thumb6.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0686" width="56" /></a>Spencer and having a student the last week of September and one student just leaving everything was been spent in a hectic, but fun workshop trips-roughly 7 in various parts of the country. Two of the seven- granted- were private students in the studio---but no actual weaving.<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">All</span> I can say is it was a very <span style="color: magenta; font-family: Jokerman; font-size: large;">good thing</span> last night that Cathie Beckman let me weave on her loom. I was so jealous. I just wanted to grab the loom away from her and weave. Cathie had been weaving in the my studio for 3 days as an <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-knmcl5BN_7E/UPDZZo5EHVI/AAAAAAAADrk/ptAJuDeooL0/s1600-h/jacobs-coat-of-roses-tam-ishmael--ei%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="jacobs-coat-of-roses-tam-ishmael--eizman" border="0" height="116" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-pdpP_-Ivpw8/UPDZaDh2pyI/AAAAAAAADrs/D9B7T7a8QK0/jacobs-coat-of-roses-tam-ishmael--ei.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="jacobs-coat-of-roses-tam-ishmael--eizman" width="110" /></a>only student. Her cartoon was based on a Jacob rose. A rose that I have not yet woven. This isn’t the photo of her rose, but it is a Jacob's rose so that you can see what the colours and techniques were like. I hadn’t realized how starved I was to<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-ItavxRgRoV0/UPDZaoFT8fI/AAAAAAAADr4/9H4cyLZc_3c/s1600-h/DSC_068413.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSC_0684" border="0" height="165" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-DnnEyEkB6xU/UPDZbbiaeUI/AAAAAAAADsA/6z5JGxXFF84/DSC_0684_thumb10.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0684" width="110" /></a> begin weaving again. I haven’t woven in 2.5 months,<span style="color: blue;"> because</span> of everything that needed tending to in life at this point. It was neither a good thing or a bad thing just a specific time in life with very specific challenges. <br />
<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;">Anyway,</span> I wove today on a new/old piece that I had started prior to this break. A small narrow one inch strip of sunset. I am also starting two small rectangular designs. They are about sunsets on the ocean and a rock mossy wall over looking the ocean. <br />
These are the five photos that I am considering weaving or variations and or combinations. They were all taken on my Xmas retreat. I really like the format of tapestries that are no larger 3 inches high and 7-9 inches wide. Usually they take me around 30-40 hours to weave- On a good week, it’s a weeks worth of weaving. I am really done with weavings that take 124 days to weave. (see prior blogs about “And he…) The bottom 2 photos are not dust but the sun shining through a rain squall. </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #8000ff; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;">A Little more, but about tapestry technique--</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">One of the discoveries I have been making is that many students don’t understand the importance with working at a very tight tension when weaving tapestry. </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Lucida Handwriting;">There are some very good reasons for having really tight tension.</span> </span></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">It is so much easier to beat the warp down and cover the warp. The bubble of weft and the tightness of the warp help prevent lice(this happens when the weft won’t cover the warp as you weave. It is a play on words of the French term licier.) Turns are easier to keep from pulling in or being pushed out of place as you make turns. The tapestry is less likely to pooch or create a blister as you beat down or stretch the warp as you beat down. T</span>he hand of the fabric is more solid, you can’t but your fingers through the weave structure. When you beat down hard on a warp the is less likely to collapse later-squares stay square. Circles don't be come ovals. etc. etc. -</span></span></strong></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy;"><strong>The excuses</strong></span> range from lack of a good loom or the loom isn’t capable of having or maintaining a really tight tension. <span style="font-family: Lucida Calligraphy;"><span style="color: #9b00d3;"><strong>There are also those who have never been told how important a tight tension is to in the weaving</strong> process.</span></span> I have seen so many people lately that are trying to weave on picture frames, looms with absolutely no tensioning device and then can’t understand why their tapestry have problems. In my whole career-35 years. I have only seen one or two people that have the actual strength to warp a picture tight enough to get really good results or not destroy the frames they are trying to weave tapestry on. And a handful of people who can actually get a really great tapestry from a picture frame. </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;"> Looms that are too wide can become too wimpy if the bars are not the proper size in relationship to the size of the loom width and metal fatigue sets in. </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><strong> Or,</strong></span> they are trying to use a jack loom and trying to get a good shed. It is extremely difficult to get a tight enough warp on a loom with a jack type mechanism. And, yes, there are exceptions to every rule, but why fight the battle that most likely is lost before one begins. </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">How tight is tight enuff!</span> Warp should be tight enough that it sounds like a harp or a guitar when you drag your fingertips across<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-9IiWJJOnLo0/UPDZfm2JBRI/AAAAAAAADtI/1j33zitc54w/s1600-h/DSC_0780%25255B10%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0780" border="0" height="244" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-tOUpi2mosHM/UPDZf_7GXsI/AAAAAAAADtQ/pXXpM1Ih_jA/DSC_0780_thumb%25255B10%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0780" width="182" /></a> the warps at a right angle. Warps also should not be able to be displaced when you do this. If you are using a warping method such as circular or figure 8, over tighten the warp, leave it be for over night, come back and loosen the warp down to where it is the right tension-still tight enough to sound or thrum like a a musical instrument... In most cases it will even the warp tension across the whole width of the web of warp. </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: xx-small;">Both loom pictures of looms –galvanized and copper loom are from the Copyrighted book So Warped that I co-wrote with Pat Spark.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;">There are some really inexpensive solutions- such as building a copper frame loom with a large screw with large wing nuts or nuts that tension. There are directions in several of my books </span><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-vGLnISruSOg/UPDZgeiVkSI/AAAAAAAADtY/IF6i6ehKTGg/s1600-h/DSCN05077.jpg"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-vGLnISruSOg/UPDZgeiVkSI/AAAAAAAADtc/p_5X6f0tmpQ/s1600-h/DSCN0507.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN0507" border="0" height="244" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-eqIm1a9h8M8/UPDZh_dNRxI/AAAAAAAADtk/X3-PLI3EimE/DSCN0507_thumb%25255B9%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN0507" width="179" /></a></span><span style="color: #333333;">for building copper looms. Archie Brennan also has a web site that has plans for one of these looms and so does the ATA web site with great diagrams. Parts can be bought very inexpensively at Habitat Re-Stores. If it’s a technical problem with cutting often times large box building supply places will have pipe in stock cut to smaller dimensions in stock or will cut it for you.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">Another solution is to build a pipe loom with galvanized pipe. Where everything can basically be screwed together. A little more expensive, but doable compared to the cost of many large tapestry looms.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">Both of these looms cost in their small sizes are under 20-30 dollars for parts-sometimes less. The big frame loom made of galvanized pipe was less then 100 dollars. I worked on a larger version for years and wove 8 pieces for my master’s thesis on a loom like this sitting on the floor. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;">OKAY-that’s enough from now. I am off to weave. YEH!!!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">kathe</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">Photo taken just barely South of the Sea Lions cave, on the Oregon coast Xmas 2012.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">k</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09602511849713822619noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724368769805213.post-9382248593672058032012-11-13T18:44:00.001-08:002012-11-14T12:01:03.923-08:00Not nearly normal-yet, …and still not yetBut when is it ever-nearly normal-will be bit, not just yet! There always seems to be a yet, that pairs itself with “in a minute.” Two words my Grandsons thought were extremely funny when they were little.I can still remember them saying –”yea, we know in a minute that hasn’t yet happened, so when is yet?” I was surprised and pleased to find that yet has another meaning or colloquialism. It mains gate. For some reason that appeals to my slightly wacked out since of humour. A gate to what?<br />
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In honour of the word yet. I just fixed the leg on my desk that has wobbled for years-irritating me beyond my normal language usage that always merit a I still haven’t fixed it yet-sigh. Well, It’s fixed-yet is now retired in the context of my desk. Now if the rest of my world would follow suite.<br />
<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Brush Script MT; font-size: x-large;">okay seriously-!</span><br />
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I did finish these two pieces for the small format show I wanted to enter. I am ready to start the third of the series and a fourth with a design about fire. The forth will be for a show called <br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: large;">Woven Together: Firestorm</span> that is being presented in Colorado Springs. One can get a prospectus or try at <cite>www.pikespeakweavers.org/<b>firestorm</b>/<b>firestorm</b>.../<b>Woven</b>_<b>Together</b>_...</cite><br />
(just Google it, if all else fells) It’s about fire, commemoration, healing and the emotional turmoil of surviving, seeing and experiencing fire. I have always wanted to weave a piece about fire. When I was in Academy I was evacuated from a wildfire while on a camping trip in Eastern Oregon. The experience has always stayed with me. <br />
It is such a beautiful day. Light clouds and warm enough to leave the studio door open. In a few hours Spencer and I will head out for a movie. The air<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-o1y5EPZCZSA/UKME_JlY3WI/AAAAAAAADZ4/7yXY7_-XWEY/s1600-h/DSCN0505%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN0505" border="0" height="146" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-4CdVk1jRnIo/UKME_ko5osI/AAAAAAAADaA/LAa0931PgEU/DSCN0505_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN0505" width="189" /></a> conditioners are out of the studio. <span style="color: #646b86; font-family: Chiller; font-size: x-large;">That was 4-7 days ago-after rain, hail, rivers of water cascading off the roof, etc, etc. Such <span style="color: red;">Idyll conditions</span> for working on a roof.</span><br />
My paper work is finally caught up from the trips. After 90 days without rain. We had a monsoon. My roof decided to leak-so have spent part of the week working on details for the new roof and the new solar on the house. The solar on the studio has been a great success. We have been running negative energy bills. Anything to avoid the over saturated election news and telephones asking us to get out and vote. I voted more then a week ago. Today the roof is started, supplies bought and it’s rain showers. So, the roof is partially tarped, but the good news is my part is done.<br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;">Why I warp a mirrix like I do.</span><br />
1. I am lazy. I can warp the loom so much quicker with a circular warp and get <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-vLKOMJSZYz4/UKMFADwEMAI/AAAAAAAADaI/xkGN1nNiDXY/s1600-h/DSCN0507%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSCN0507" border="0" height="133" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-MHNvdreWPs8/UKMFAvQjuII/AAAAAAAADaQ/JtUysqBdicw/DSCN0507_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN0507" width="172" /></a>to the weaving quicker.<br />
2. Circular warping is faster. It’s also easier to space the warps evenly on the edge that goes under or around the bottom beam.<span style="color: cyan;"> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: xx-small;">Picture from<u> So Warped. </u></span></span><br />
3. It’s easier to explain the process over the phone when I get calls from people that don’t understand the process that comes with the loom or for those who are now now the proud processors of a used mirrix loom. <br />
4. Less prone to directional mistakes as it is warped. <br />
5. Easier for beginning weavers and those with physical handicaps –such as shoulder problems, stiff fingers, sight problems, and directionally challenged.<br />
6. It’s easier to correct tension problems in the warping process while weaving. Over tighten the loom, wait a few hours, preferably overnight, re-tension to the proper tension for weaving.<br />
7. And, No, I don’t have trouble turning it around the beam. It’s actually easier. I use a batten. Loosen the tension on the loom I open a shed and put in a Navajo batten that is <b><u>wider </u></b>than the loom with a semi sharp edge on the fell line. Doesn’t move the warps to far apart while turning, keeps the edge of the batten on the fell line rather than opening the shed and possibly moving one part of the shed further around then the other shed-this can become a problem on a loose warp. Close the shed and turn, push, and pull the warp and piece around to where I want the fell line to be. <br />
8. The bars that come with mirrix loom are too fat and I loose too much weaving area by the time I bring the two sheds close enough to weave. I usually weave in 3 small bars that are an about an 8<sup>th</sup> of an inch diameter for easier spacing and holding the warp as I space it. <br />
9. It’s a better bet when using dual duty craft and button hole twist as the warp. Less chance of mistakes and a better chance of correcting warp tension and warping with even tension as one tires during the process of winding the warp around the beams and through the spring(S). <br />
<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: large;">More bits, pieces, And random thoughts on technique</span><br />
B<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-voale_Rizs0/UKMFAyW9EZI/AAAAAAAADaY/pSKl-w4JOTQ/s1600-h/DSC_0052%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0052" border="0" height="244" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-I6EK9UXBDH4/UKMFBDA9njI/AAAAAAAADag/7rPlb8BGdvA/DSC_0052_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0052" width="165" /></a>everly Weaver in one of my two classes in Co. Springs for the Pikes Peak Hand weaving Guild made me aware of another use for soumack in the design process. I teach about handiness(right or left slant) all of the time. I use it for outlining, edges, concentric circles and nested squares.and spirals etc. What I never thought about doing is using in the design process to move the eye out or in and creating <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-PQgVFxDLjI8/UKMFB4QhnxI/AAAAAAAADao/be9DxP6zJZE/s1600-h/DSC_0155%25255B20%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSC_0155" border="0" height="244" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-WAH2fV-Huok/UKMFCZzmOzI/AAAAAAAADaw/K8j8zNile0k/DSC_0155_thumb%25255B21%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0155" width="244" /></a>a Vasarely type of effect. The slant of the soumack turns can be used to move the eye outward or inward. By using the slant in relation ship to colour contrast-such as complements or warm and cool one can create more dimensions in the shape. <br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-size: xx-small;">In the two pictures above Pike Peaks early morning. second photo note the slant of the soumack. Slant is called handedness and is dependent on the turn of the soumack weft wrapper.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">One can add a second element to the op effect by the colour contrast used in the ground and on the twiner-extreme would be red-green, orange to blue etc. By using warm and cool contrast or light and dark contrast the effect could be even more pronounced.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: small;">More random thoughts of Colorado Springs</span>.</span><br />
Work that done by Susan Seufer and Carole Stewart who had taken by Albuquerque class and classes in Colorado Springs. Susan also had a piece in the Portals Small Format exhibit and catalogue.<br />
One of the nicest surprises- besides the wonderful people in my workshops- I had while teaching in Colorado Springs was to<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-fM_79Wj5vII/UKMFFVY7OtI/AAAAAAAADbY/uP_qZh2CS8s/s1600-h/DSC_0109%25255B8%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0109" border="0" height="89" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-FWwIgiSHf4Y/UKMFF2fdP-I/AAAAAAAADbg/vgZUX5KRfvQ/DSC_0109_thumb%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0109" width="127" /></a> walk through a door and find two really nice 16th century Flemish Tapestries that were on loan. They were placed in<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-XbAjGJ86ktQ/UKMFGS3ic4I/AAAAAAAADbo/MzwYLONUjz0/s1600-h/DSC_0087%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSC_0087" border="0" height="186" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-IjOlTpa_uxA/UKMFHPsADlI/AAAAAAAADbw/MDB4YT1eDIs/DSC_0087_thumb%25255B5%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0087" width="112" /></a> such a way they were almost impossible to photograph except for details, Baby grands lights and tables are notoriously hard to photograph around, but I did get some great details to work with. I also fell in love with the Devils Garden and it’s very thin outgrowths of rock. Sort of looked like a dinosaur or a dragon had fallen asleep leaving the spines, fins and spikes on his back at attention.<br />
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<tr> <td valign="top" width="344"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ann V.- E.-</span> This is a reminder-How is the 24 year old tapestry coming along!gr!!!! Thanks for a wonderful evening and returning my IPAD!</span></span></td> </tr>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;"><strong><em><u>Even more Random! OF Pig Tales and Pig Tails</u></em></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Lucida Handwriting;">I think one of the easiest techniques for beginning and ending weft bundles can also be one of the hardest. It’s a technique that I demonstrate over and over. What makes it difficult is when you don’t understand hills and valleys. When your weaving hills are where the weft crosses in front of a warp thread and valley thread goes behind a warp thread- also know as hollow and full threads. <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-1ZZy6cLP-7w/UKMFWD6HN9I/AAAAAAAADfQ/MjwwVLjKMNo/s1600-h/DSCN0509%25255B14%25255D.jpg"><span style="color: #333333;"><img align="left" alt="DSCN0509" border="0" height="127" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-xlItk0mNWYU/UKMFW5NOHXI/AAAAAAAADfU/7Vxe-eJm_fU/DSCN0509_thumb%25255B16%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN0509" width="244" /></span></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: small;">Half passes by nature want to create a doted line- an over and under. Pigtails just want to create a wrap whether it creates an over and under trip or not. In order to create a half pass that creates a line of dots.(remember a half pass creates dots an over and a back a complete pass always creates a line.) there are two side by side warps to consider. One warp will always be an over and the other under. In order for the pigtail to be created on the warp you want it has to turn around either a hill thread or a hollow thread. Sometimes it has to go behind two threads to maintain the over and under pattern of the half pass. The tail will always need to curl around a warp and under the weft thread to get the tail to the back of the tapestry.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: small;">O yeah-the tale- the reason it’s called a pigtail-pigs used to have corkscrew type tails that curled like –well-pigs tails. I have been informed by a student that most modern pigs no longer have cork screw tails. </span><br />
<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">GEORGIA ON MY MIND!… AND, PARTS OF THE CAROLINA’S TOO-</span><br />
<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">My workshop in Atlanta with the Chattahogee Hand weaver's Guild was fun. There is some great work that will becoming out of this group. It’s going to be interesting to see the cartoons people were working on become full fledged tapestries. I was able to visit with John Moss and Joy Moss that are woodworkers that create the brassy bob’s that I love to use. I now have enough jpegs to create a short slide presentation of the process. Watching John make them was totally fascinating.</span><br />
<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">Tommye Scanlin and I went through a “forced March through Georgia”gr a quote from Thomas Scanlin who introduced me to his wonderful collection of out sider art. I loved ever minute of it. In the process of the “forced march”, I saw Hambridge Retreat, John C. Campbell's Craft School, petroglyphs, fall in the Appalachians, Pat Williams church kneelers(I am still laughing over the image of Gabriel's thought provoking feathers), that was very interesting. I am now the proud owner of a Patricia Williams tapestry-who weaves ironic funny tapestries that really appeal to my wacked out sense of humour. Tommye and Pat are also great tapestry teachers and tapestry weavers. Saw Tommye’s feather cartoon. It’s even better in person. It was so great to talk about tapestry and design with the two of them. I leaned a lot from my students too and renewed my sense of awe in the power that tapestries can produce-Thank you “crutch lady!” I even enjoyed riding Marta with Tommye and all the breaks in conversation! Thanks Tommye1</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">Any way, enough for now! I have so much stuff and pictures to go through and writing to do about the last 2 months that it will take me forever to journal about it all! So random is how it is</span><br />
<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">kathe</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09602511849713822619noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724368769805213.post-22162430630121112302012-10-06T17:35:00.001-07:002012-10-06T17:42:19.390-07:00This and that-Between workshops!<span style="font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;">It’s been 2 weeks and 4 days since I last posted.</span> <br />
I have finished <span style="color: blue; font-family: Brush Script MT; font-size: x-large;">one</span> of the 3 pieces and about a third and closing in on a half of the second piece of the three. This one is entitled<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Brush Script MT; font-size: x-large;"> Line</span>.</span> Some<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-PphInLDFtN8/UHDOHgjuigI/AAAAAAAADSw/g9vAVXkMVqU/s1600-h/DSCN0485%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSCN0485" border="0" height="144" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-tsY438ATyG0/UHDOIASfCjI/AAAAAAAADS4/ibN2pig_XmU/DSCN0485_thumb%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN0485" width="105" /></a> of the pressure is off for now. I have at least one piece to enter in a particular show that I wish to enter, whether I get in or not is another matter and of little importance. The deadline is everything. Completing the pieces are all that matter. The piece is finished for the most part. To me important thing is that I like the piece with it’s slight dose of humour and it’s <span style="color: red; font-family: Jokerman; font-size: large;">slight bit</span> of hidden sarcasm. I think it tells its story. <br />
<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;">I think/know</span> that I am becoming impossibly jaded towards exhibiting my work. I realize I am questioning why I enter shows. One exhibit I have entered and exhibited in every 2 years since the early 90’s I have been in 14 times. At this point I exhibit and show because it looks good on my teaching resume. Not because I am particularly tied or emotionally tied to a venue or exhibit, or the creation of the exhibit. It has become too much of a game-a game of chances-not so much of skill or being vetted for skillfully<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-BlBkcwKHnUs/UHDOI5P1DkI/AAAAAAAADTA/vg8sjg-8p6A/s1600-h/DSCN0487%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSCN0487" border="0" height="141" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-8R_dx_aXhmk/UHDOJQmtwpI/AAAAAAAADTI/eOl6iJwmCt8/DSCN0487_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN0487" width="111" /></a> designing and constructing a piece, but a partcular juror’s whim. The same old-same old. <br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Jokerman; font-size: x-large;">My greatest joy of a day is</span> weaving at least 6 hours a day and <br />
watching the fell line build until it’s over-in ever growing crescendo…Then, done, finito, a mental le petit mort, finished,etc. I have trouble maintaining an interest in the piece once it’s off the loom. It becomes an afterthought, curiosity, a type of momento morrii or a vanitas. or a reminder to weave well and learn from the past weavings. <br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: medium;">"in all thy works be mindful of thy last end and thou wilt never sin."Ecclesiastics 7:40(Vulgate)<span style="color: black; font-size: small;">My <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-e2lyW9VZWk0/UHDOJ1N6GRI/AAAAAAAADTQ/QXUG8xA-_3s/s1600-h/DSC_0144%25255B10%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0144" border="0" height="153" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-6SHGU45UWcs/UHDOKWTXiHI/AAAAAAAADTY/GSTcJI5DFQk/DSC_0144_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0144" width="100" /></a>Grandmother made me memorize this verse when I was about 5 years old. Not sure she knew I would apply it to my weaving. It seems to have stuck for close to 60 years. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #8080c0; font-family: Chiller; font-size: large;">Photos taken of a Smokey Columbia river from a<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-4Fxpvnu7iJk/UHDOKnOLcgI/AAAAAAAADTg/eplON7Y4QwY/s1600-h/DSC_0134%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSC_0134" border="0" height="156" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-_9sLuPajIH4/UHDOLTVxuzI/AAAAAAAADTo/qO1otSxCVdQ/DSC_0134_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0134" width="104" /></a> moving train while on my way home from teaching in the tri-cities in Washington. The ghostly fingers are the reflection in the window of my fingers holding the camera.</span> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy;">It’s always just a tad bothersome</span></span> when entering shows that I can submit 3 pieces and they will choose one of the 3. <span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;">It’s also a bit bothersome</span> that this particular exhibit has a theme. When the other shows orchestrated by this particular organization don’t. <span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;">Why limit</span> the pieces or have a theme? It’s not as if one piece takes up way too much space say such as a 5 foot by 4 foot large format tapestry. <span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;">Perhaps,</span> it is thought that small format weavers can only design with a theme for an exhibit and I haven’t seen the <span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;">limitation</span> of 1 out of 3 in other exhibits. I think that <span style="color: #9b00d3;"><span style="font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;">themes and limits hide the diversity</span></span> and<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-jQqglWAjgHA/UHDOLorrk4I/AAAAAAAADTw/u-zld4mle1o/s1600-h/DSC_0155%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSC_0155" border="0" height="244" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-_Uv3cVCw0Ys/UHDOLxu0XdI/AAAAAAAADT4/0dMyx-pzARo/DSC_0155_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0155" width="165" /></a> <span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;">possibilities</span> of what small format tapestries can and are capable of <span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;">achievi</span><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Ij2Fve4zMTI/UHDOMnG2qfI/AAAAAAAADUA/LaIQNustRj4/s1600-h/DSC_0081%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0081" border="0" height="122" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-GXoZdAtqC-Y/UHDONKgj_5I/AAAAAAAADUI/6CHYFL9Tdo4/DSC_0081_thumb%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0081" width="82" /></span></a><span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;">ng</span> by limiting expectations.<br />
Above Naked Ladies from Yachats, OR beginning to bud and bloom. Seems appropriate for a discussion of the above.<br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Enuff! It is what it is!</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: large;">I am beginning something I rarely do.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I journal all the time</span>, but have never really done it as a theme journal for a short period of time. <span style="color: #9b00d3; font-size: medium;"><strong><em><u>Marcia Keefer</u></em></strong></span> has been creating small portable journals and binding them. This particular one is a resist dyed felt backed with leather with an anemone spine closure and beaded. It is filled with an incredibly sensuous paper that should be nice to write on. Marcia took a sewing thread class from me many many years ago. The out <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-vzb5ydDJ8js/UHDONeaXfiI/AAAAAAAADUQ/EBGnoCIVGJU/s1600-h/DSC_0083%25255B8%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0083" border="0" height="244" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-z4hJYxTYGTY/UHDONykkweI/AAAAAAAADUY/0lDcRhDjo-w/DSC_0083_thumb%25255B10%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0083" width="145" /></a>come was one of my favourite small format/small scale pieces. I have acquired a small journal from her that is quite beautiful. <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-1-dB22gaNFo/UHDOOXlSmoI/AAAAAAAADUg/8DHLuYZZX8s/s1600-h/DSCN0488%25255B12%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSCN0488" border="0" height="125" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-ItElC40ghzg/UHDOO8LRawI/AAAAAAAADUo/ouoSsfYT1-Q/DSCN0488_thumb%25255B13%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN0488" width="100" /></a><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;">So, I</span> have decided to use it to document a month of an itinerant teacher. I am not a weaver of journals. I haven’t figured out why people do them, but I do enjoy the tapestry journals that other weavers-Such as Tommye Scanlin, Jan Austin to name a few of my favourites. So my homage to tapestry journals will be recording a month <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-ubRu-V-dcYI/UHDOPWr7aNI/AAAAAAAADUw/M2mSvBtmzL4/s1600-h/DSCN0489%25255B13%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSCN0489" border="0" height="110" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-bJEYkkevg5k/UHDOP3Y9dbI/AAAAAAAADU4/W7kjpoXhDN0/DSCN0489_thumb%25255B13%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSCN0489" width="185" /></a> and documenting intense travel, teaching tapestry, intensive weaving to create a journal of my experiences in a beautifully made journal.<br />
When I teach in the Tri-Cities I always come away knowing that I have taught perhaps a new skill or two a group of women who are a bunch artistically well rounded fabulous artist-basket weavers, book arts, dyers, weavers, etc. Who make all arts a part of their everyday lives. More on these guys later including pictures-next time I write. They are an intriguing group of women artist. <br />
Floating to the surface in this class was a wonderful Ukrainian Soumack rug and <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-w9Ggy9UTl18/UHDOQTjOniI/AAAAAAAADVA/Y7zzMP-KMms/s1600-h/DSC_0108%25255B11%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0108" border="0" height="147" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Nt1Z9GyUNu0/UHDOQycAHzI/AAAAAAAADVI/OttEzxixdYA/DSC_0108_thumb%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0108" width="206" /></a>a Syrian rug.<br />
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Syrian Rug<br />
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Details of soumack rug that was too big to Photograph all of-so just a couple of details<br />
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<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;">A little bit of tapestry technique as promised.</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Jokerman; font-size: medium;">Hills and valleys, and ridding ones tapestry of vicious teeth.</span> Just realized how apt this subject is for the month that ends with Halloween-LOL.<br />
Caveat! These comments are made weaving from the front, but can be easily be reversed and used weaving from the back. <br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">So what are these hills and valleys and vicious teeth?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><em><strong> In its simplest form-</strong></em></span> Either a hill or valley is created every time one does a half pass along the fell line. The hill is created when the weft crosses in front of a warp. A valley is created when the weft crosses in back of the warp. <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-MCRo35-_Guc/UHDOVQi52DI/AAAAAAAADWQ/ozcQc4-9rWQ/s1600-h/2012-10-05%252520183856%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="2012-10-05 183856" border="0" height="114" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-wI4NiVMNgiw/UHDOV70rwiI/AAAAAAAADWY/mrGNoJObD9s/2012-10-05%252520183856_thumb%25255B11%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="2012-10-05 183856" width="199" /></a>Teeth or toothing is another word or descriptor used because in a comic sense the fell line looks like a series of small teeth sticking up. In this diagram the turn on the left is a hill thread. second thread is a valley and the third thread is a hill and the fourth a valley.<br />
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<span style="color: #ff80c0; font-family: Brush Script MT; font-size: large;">It would be easy to say no big deal.</span> Why not just leave well enough alone? It’s the nature of tapestry weaving, but that’s not necessarily so. It’s easy to control and get rid of. <br />
These hills and valleys, and toothing are ignored in whole cultures of tapestry weaving. The argument for<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-9HXvK3EVee4/UHDOWMb35lI/AAAAAAAADWg/VjtzNjUdHCA/s1600-h/image%25255B4%25255D.png"><img align="left" alt="image" border="0" height="83" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Xd62fuA3j4I/UHDOWqBgZhI/AAAAAAAADWo/Od9QTkFYdi0/image_thumb%25255B6%25255D.png?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="128" /></a> leaving it or ignoring hills and valleys is that the mind of the viewer repeats the answer(straight line) because they have not been able to forget a past question and move on to the current subject(non wavy line). The mind has seen straight smooth lines therefore it is a straight smooth line. Whether it is or not. The mind often sees what it wishes to see. The further one stands back from a tapestry the less one sees the wavy or toothed line. So why bother? The psyche term for the phenomena is perseveration. <br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">The problem is</span>-sorry to say- that when weaving small format and small scale people stand very close to a tapestry and examine it in a different way then one would a large/scale format weaving. They stand so close that things such as optical blending and perseveration just don’t happen. Small things become harder to ignore and more obvious. So if you need to see a straight line and not a wavy line it’s annoying and can possibly detract from the design elements. The bottom of triangular shapes, squares, circles don’t look smooth. They look toothed and wavy, because they are. <br />
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<span style="color: blue;">lines with split weft-ignore center panel floating bars-panel on right</span><br />
<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Brush Script MT; font-size: x-large;"><strong>So-</strong></span> there are two or three ways to deal with actually 3-4 if ignore is counted as a solution. <br />
1. Ignore it. Stand back and let it optically blend into a straight line. Less work-just let your eye ignore the small details. Great on large format not so much on small/scale small format tapestry. One needs to stand too close to see detail or choose to stand further back and maybe the very toothed lines will perseverate before you can’t se<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-SOXwPdKnqcE/UHDOYN99AII/AAAAAAAADXA/VyJn9BTkTwE/s1600-h/image%25255B9%25255D.png"><img align="right" alt="image" border="0" height="148" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-dn2lZ9SDrfM/UHDOYY25K_I/AAAAAAAADXI/LIWmtDqDtII/image_thumb%25255B9%25255D.png?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="87" /></a>e detail. A laissez faire solution. <br />
2.Use soumack for the lines. Soumack lines can pretty much smooth out any area-fell lines, sides of geometric objects etc. Problem it is slower then weaving over and under. Some consider it not be a weaverly solution, but it does work in tapestry.<br />
It’s been used at Gobelin for centuries and is called arrondiment. <br />
3. Split the weft. My favourite solution! Splitting the weft fills in have the valley of the base colour and the base colour of the the next half pass. <br />
<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-F82Q6wdYhOQ/UHDOY9qNTpI/AAAAAAAADXQ/HnrA7YmhjHk/s1600-h/2012-10-05%252520183856%25255B12%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="2012-10-05 183856" border="0" height="99" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-ztasFg5kpaY/UHDOZQ5DyuI/AAAAAAAADXY/pOh_kADpALw/2012-10-05%252520183856_thumb%25255B22%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="2012-10-05 183856" width="188" /></a><br />
Step A- Half of the weft bundle<br />
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Step B-half of the next weft bundle placed in the same shed<br />
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Step C-close shed and weave with new colour<br />
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<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-jkdiPDuDGT4/UHDOaRUf0BI/AAAAAAAADXw/gK7HvNM5uAg/s1600-h/2012-10-05%252520183856%25255B21%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="2012-10-05 183856" border="0" height="130" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-JZR4UR9oRX0/UHDOa6MRrsI/AAAAAAAADX4/7BIPvAa5p0k/2012-10-05%252520183856_thumb%25255B43%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="2012-10-05 183856" width="244" /></a><br />
Split weft variation for very fine smooth lines.<br />
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Enough for now. I have bags to repack and details to check. <br />
Another caveat illustrations are by Pat Spark taken from my book Tapestry 101 and are copy right. All photos on this page were taken by me and are also copyrighted images and may not be used without the express permission of the author and illustrator. <br />
<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-LkYeV2inWdk/UHDObCBIQLI/AAAAAAAADYA/SnHtjHQaJ5I/s1600-h/DSC_0163%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img alt="DSC_0163" border="0" height="244" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-AB7nxjBTfjU/UHDObQkg0tI/AAAAAAAADYI/YVO3sldrInE/DSC_0163_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0163" width="165" /></a>Day break on a smoky Columbia river! Next Stop Colorado Springs, Colorado!<br />
katheAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09602511849713822619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724368769805213.post-29455890978822099082012-09-17T15:27:00.001-07:002012-09-17T15:27:57.807-07:00Middle of the month with all its bits and pieces…<p> <br /><font color="#8000ff" size="6" face="Papyrus">It's the middle of the month.</font>                    I have <font size="5" face="Brush Script MT">basically</font> finished "And He..." several <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Operv5YmrgQ/UFejrba2LAI/AAAAAAAADNo/uFiSf1etOXU/s1600-h/DSCN0443%252520%2525282%252529%25255B11%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0443 (2)" border="0" alt="DSCN0443 (2)" align="left" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-HYYMtHtzRYw/UFejr5bgGOI/AAAAAAAADNw/poWVLqgkSo4/DSCN0443%252520%2525282%252529_thumb%25255B14%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="179" height="244" /></a>days ago. it's sitting on a table waiting to be finished.That's what i mean <br />by <font color="#0000ff" size="5" face="Brush Script MT">basically</font>-the weaving is done.<font color="#ff0000" size="4"> “It”</font> at this point has no place to go. So it can wait! </p> <p> <font color="#0000ff" size="5" face="Chiller"><font color="#ff0000" size="6">But,</font> life and the reality of timing</font> have me setting it it aside to work on 3 small tapestries designed around the <br />words line and mark. The series will probably end up being 5 pieces of 5 by <br />7 inches. <font color="#00ffff" size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting">What a relief!!!!</font>Haven't <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-zv-wr0oUx4k/UFejso4UanI/AAAAAAAADN4/cqZ_Qxc_dcw/s1600-h/DSCN0445%25255B23%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0445" border="0" alt="DSCN0445" align="right" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-cGVMuT82Cjc/UFejtOzt3wI/AAAAAAAADOA/cWVMfi1T_ng/DSCN0445_thumb%25255B22%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="101" height="131" /></a>decided on the size of the 4th one. It may be 2 inches by 7 inches. If it decides to be that small I will design a 5th piece so that <br />the small piece will be a center piece. I would like to eventually hang <br />them together. So there will need to be a visual balance of size ad shapes.<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-RVPclis_PI4/UFejtigy2lI/AAAAAAAADOI/4u0haNgnZUM/s1600-h/DSCN0476%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0476" border="0" alt="DSCN0476" align="right" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-7-OXjCAiISM/UFejtyMgCsI/AAAAAAAADOQ/Kj0yTvmASqA/DSCN0476_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="153" height="141" /></a> <br /><font color="#0000ff" size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting">I have become fascinated</font> with the idea of the what is the difference between <br />a line and a mark. Line to me is a expression of geometry and very little else.<font color="#008080" size="4" face="Comic Sans MS"> Line</font> by <br />definition can be real or imagined, shortest distance between two points. By <br /><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-j3Wf5whHUPc/UFejumyeaqI/AAAAAAAADOY/Bv2VMcMa6TM/s1600-h/DSCN0453%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0453" border="0" alt="DSCN0453" align="left" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-HLqoy1VNKKU/UFejvBvhBLI/AAAAAAAADOg/IN2IKjLzrHY/DSCN0453_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="107" height="149" /></a>dimension and definition it has a beginning and an end at point A and point <br />B. While a<font color="#008040" size="4" face="Comic Sans MS"> Mark</font> is something that leaves an impression of something on some <br />thing somewhere and defines something in some way. <font color="#ff00ff" size="5" face="Lucida Handwriting">okay</font><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-8ynwRZDKzYQ/UFejvf0MJ4I/AAAAAAAADOo/EDIzxEpJJak/s1600-h/DSCN0452%25255B15%25255D.jpg"><font color="#ff00ff" size="5" face="Lucida Handwriting"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0452" border="0" alt="DSCN0452" align="right" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-g7dbrq_-8CM/UFejvog7JAI/AAAAAAAADOw/52-NvTa33I4/DSCN0452_thumb%25255B15%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="114" height="143" /></font></a><font color="#ff00ff" size="5" face="Lucida Handwriting"> that said.</font> The first <br />two pieces are about definitions. Each piece defines a word-mark or line.I am <br />about a third of the way done with line. The background is based on the sea, <br />fog and the delicate muted colours of a sunset. Another design that is <br />going to be difficult photograph. The grey and the complementary contrasting  colours <br />will make look grey when translated into a photo. A lot like "Home" with its <font style="style"> soft</font><font style="background-color: #ffff00"></font> muted orange and blue sunset. Mark is the second and will have an intense sunset or scene in the background. The third which <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-5f99_KSQcTQ/UFejwNK88BI/AAAAAAAADO4/8c1ZY9RdweA/s1600-h/DSCN0475%25255B10%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0475" border="0" alt="DSCN0475" align="left" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-9BAKfkIJBoM/UFejwlUvDgI/AAAAAAAADPA/jVjvyippGdE/DSCN0475_thumb%25255B20%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="177" /></a>doesn’t have a tittle  yet will be layered lines of a pale white/pink single layered rose from my garden and puzzle pieces  that moves from lines through a transparency to a solid flower partially overlaid by jig saw puzzle pieces that are transparent wit an intense sunset/seashore as background. Now it’s time to weave it all. The cartoons of the pieces are my vellum cartoons that the transparency of the vellum makes difficult to photograph.</p> <p><font color="#ff0000" size="5" face="Californian FB"><u><em>ZEUS and springs that spread an elegant solution.</em></u></font> </p> <p>Left over from 9-1-2012</p> <p><font color="#0000ff" size="4">Note</font>-- the spreading difference of the warps created by a spring that stretched more or less in different areas-should have been 20 epi, but was between 18-23 wpi. <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-I-3gpxJBgHw/UFejxB144JI/AAAAAAAADPI/ptoygK78Q0Y/s1600-h/DSCN0440%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0440" border="0" alt="DSCN0440" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-sreNw0cGQyA/UFejxRmlg-I/AAAAAAAADPQ/8vJb3HQ4RkQ/DSCN0440_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="709" height="80" /></a></p> <p>Donna Graham sent me this elegant solution to the problem of spread springs.<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-81LWt3sKV5g/UFejx1XonKI/AAAAAAAADPY/k_jWd1EY9d0/s1600-h/all%252520screw%252520in%252520place%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="all screw in place" border="0" alt="all screw in place" align="right" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-4zCaA8Cus9w/UFejyQJGnlI/AAAAAAAADPg/EJ6_v7VCe6I/all%252520screw%252520in%252520place_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="127" height="98" /></a> Yes I did ask permission to use the photo and her e-mail message that she sent me. I, too didn't like the changing epi which comes from using the spring on the mirrix. To fix this problem I switched to using 1/4 inch all thread. Since I work at 10 epi, the fine thread is what I use. It has a thread count of 20 per inch. Standard thread has 16 per inch. </p> <p>custom cut the all thread to fit in the top channel where the spring went. Use a nut to de-burr the all thread by running the nut up and down the length of the all thread. Then take steel wool to finish smoothing out the all thread. Wipe down the all thread, feeling for burs. Repeat until the all thread is smooth. Screw a nut on each end to keep the all thread from falling into the channel and tape into place.</p> <p>I also start with a bottom all thread without the nuts. I just line it up with the top and tape in place. When I move my tapestry around the lower bar I remove the bottom all thread.</p> <p>I have not had a problem with the all thread cutting my warp thread. Just make sure the all thread is clean and smooth. I use this method on all of my mirrix.</p> <p>One more note. If you can find the 3/8 inch all thread and nuts that would work better for the top spacer.<font color="#000000" size="1"><strong>Donna Graham</strong></font></p> <p><strong><font color="#000000" size="6">As promised-</font></strong>Combining 2 forms of optical blending with </p> <p>other things-hatches, hachures, pick and pick(demi duite).</p> <p><font size="4"><font face="Lucida Handwriting"><font color="#ff0000">Yes!</font> <font color="#ff0000">you can combine </font></font></font> chene’s, colour fades, pick and pick and mélanges with hatches, hachures, pick and pick(demi duite).  By the questions I am being asked and various statements I hear I think the confusion stems from the fact that many of the multiple tapestry traditions in the US and other places are based on the use of singles or one yarn in the weft bundles(does one take a plural in this case?).</p> <p> By using multiple strands of weft in your bundle you can effectively change colours by dropping one colour and adding a different coloured yarn.  The trick to having a flat surface when doing this is to know the sizes of your yarns and how to keep the weft bundles the same size.</p> <p> So one single could equal 4-6 strands of another size of yarn. In the Tapestry 101. There’s a chart in the back of the book  that makes this  size relationships clearer.But in a nut shell it has more to do with knowing the sizes of the yarns you are using and keep all of the weft bundles the same size</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-GgfJJdj_D3s/UFejy_xcANI/AAAAAAAADPo/2qOvyyifuOY/s1600-h/DSCN0462%25255B16%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0462" border="0" alt="DSCN0462" align="left" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-yi22neNEi0k/UFejzcjpp9I/AAAAAAAADPw/mosdaK59v3M/DSCN0462_thumb%25255B19%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="203" height="190" /></a></p> <p><strong>Colour fades</strong> done on the bobbin from one to another-10 epi,  4 strands of paternayan</p> <p><strong> </strong><u>Mélange</u>-colours that are a like</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><strong><em><u>Chene</u></em></strong>-colours that can be termed opposites</p> <p> </p> <p><font color="#9b00d3" face="Lucida Handwriting">Colour changes and blending of colours</font>- can be produced by combining colours on a  bobbin by changing out threads in the weft bundle- </p> <p>If you have 2 colour groups and our using 4 strands. The colour changes could be 4-0, 3-1, 2-2,1-3, 0-4. </p> <p>The colour changes when doing weft shading move up the warp and have a tendency too look linear<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-MDYqwt1z_HY/UFejzoX3bKI/AAAAAAAADP4/4OGvBb0Kslw/s1600-h/DSCN0459%25255B22%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0459" border="0" alt="DSCN0459" align="left" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-vSZyo1LwB6Q/UFej0DPSteI/AAAAAAAADQA/P-ATIUiehjY/DSCN0459_thumb%25255B21%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="64" height="48" /></a> <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-dEqMiHZ5_B8/UFej0khBf9I/AAAAAAAADQI/LmmDzfuQ73Y/s1600-h/DSCN0458%25255B16%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0458" border="0" alt="DSCN0458" align="right" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-9vIvCYqhp5Q/UFej03lNN_I/AAAAAAAADQQ/FXBCZCkzxRc/DSCN0458_thumb%25255B18%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="240" height="64" /></a>when woven fro one side of a tapestry to other side. </p> <p> </p> <p>In the last couple of weeks I have had several conversations with <br />tapestry weavers who didn't realize that hatches and hachures can be <br />combined with chene’s and mélanges to move colour around and shade.</p> <p><font color="#9b00d3"> <font size="5" face="Lucida Calligraphy">By definition.</font> <br /></font>hatches and hachures move colours across the fell lines to create optical <br />blending with the use of stacked vertical lines and triangular shapes. . Stand back, think Seurat and pointillism. Chene’s, mélanges, and colour fades move <br />colour up the warps.</p> <p>Tapestry by it nature is a series of ever diminishing dots of colour that optically blend into solid colours at a distance. </p> <p>Hatches hachures and pick and pick, lines of colour run vertically produce bars of colour that run a cross the fail line.Pick and pick it does run the colour up<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-sOyv75W5cfQ/UFej1d3xq-I/AAAAAAAADQY/lri44bGgRCA/s1600-h/DSCN0468%25255B12%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0468" border="0" alt="DSCN0468" align="left" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Rr5kkH128BQ/UFej147tptI/AAAAAAAADQg/Sxo4E6mBnHI/DSCN0468_thumb%25255B12%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="163" height="117" /></a> </p> <p><font color="#0000ff">Pick and pick with a colour fade mélange on one set of bars</font></p> <p> </p> <p>the warp, but it’s kind of a hybrid that does bars of colour rather then the dots of colours of chene’s and mélanges. And, Always there is the exception that, they can also be woven eccentrically, but the lines or bars of colour follow the fell line follow the <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-tOh7fMZQd30/UFej2hsqA5I/AAAAAAAADQo/QtPtHdU9hzg/s1600-h/DSCN0468%25255B25%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0468" border="0" alt="DSCN0468" align="left" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-f1ki7F9krj4/UFej25aMzVI/AAAAAAAADQw/pbpsblObSXQ/DSCN0468_thumb%25255B27%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="78" /></a>fell line.  </p> <p><font color="#0000ff" size="4">Hatches-informal and formal.</font> All one colour in weft bars or hatches. Note that the bars of create a bridge colour or a third colour. From a distance the colours will optically blend together and create the bridge colour and optically blend  as one unit of colour.</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-YWL1Hx-Armk/UFej3aK2yWI/AAAAAAAADQ4/qR5zotx-Ako/s1600-h/DSCN0471%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0471" border="0" alt="DSCN0471" align="right" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-K0stpVSAc1E/UFej36EnEEI/AAAAAAAADRA/QZJZt9-J6tM/DSCN0471_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="173" height="119" /></a><font color="#0000ff" size="4">Hachures </font>create triangular shapes of colour that move across the fell line. In the first example the hachures are combined with  mélanges. Which adds a greater variety of shading and and colour changes then would be visually available if one or the other technique had been used separately. <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-erfFuuC_H0M/UFej4TYi-gI/AAAAAAAADRI/A_ReLN2n9JA/s1600-h/DSCN0456%25255B18%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0456" border="0" alt="DSCN0456" align="left" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-fqC0NqWvwRg/UFej4w2IhfI/AAAAAAAADRQ/4KwGZlGIk2A/DSCN0456_thumb%25255B20%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="240" height="244" /></a></p> <p> </p> <p>The deep red purples of this flower are done with mixtures of red and purple and then hatched to create a bridge colour between the two different purples and reds mixed on the bobbin</p> <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-44GY-uAoCbM/UFej5qQzwAI/AAAAAAAADRY/CZf2bVqtc8M/s1600-h/DSCN0469%25255B20%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0469" border="0" alt="DSCN0469" align="right" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-x-IHb9GvmuE/UFej6N3troI/AAAAAAAADRg/0Dg1EgRoXoU/DSCN0469_thumb%25255B25%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="189" /></a> <p>The background and sky are hachures and mélanges that move back and forth to create a mix of colours that when cut off the looms will have the hachures and mélanges  pointing vertically after the piece is turned.  </p> <p> </p> <p>Diagrams for these techniques are in the<u> 101 Tapestry </u>  and  <u>Line and Tapestry</u> .</p> <p>Time I went back to weaving and preparing for my 4 classes that are coming up in the next month. Who knows maybe we’ll get a chance to visit in  person.  I will be in the tri city areas in Washington, Boulder, Co, Atlanta, GA, and Mendocino within the next 4-5 weeks.<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-xidCvcLjCAw/UFej6hGaKUI/AAAAAAAADRo/Xun6Hb3tBgY/s1600-h/DSCN0474%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0474" border="0" alt="DSCN0474" align="left" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-AIwZxHPPCiI/UFej7DliLoI/AAAAAAAADRw/81KwlQP5SQM/DSCN0474_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="184" /></a></p> <p> </p> <p>Cheers and all,</p> <p>kathe</p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09602511849713822619noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724368769805213.post-32559620365562275712012-09-10T10:10:00.000-07:002012-09-10T10:13:17.041-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">911 Memorial Tapestry-</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Over and Over</span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09602511849713822619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724368769805213.post-68133163227461057032012-09-01T20:49:00.001-07:002012-09-01T20:56:42.972-07:00When? And, as if….! And getting there!<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-9r9Tc5gk5VA/UELW-u_u1ZI/AAAAAAAADIE/VZ2zAnPYrE8/s1600-h/DSC_0075%25255B10%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0075" border="0" height="167" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-gt5qhWn-mXU/UELW_Dfpr8I/AAAAAAAADIM/7_mMGTVsOmA/DSC_0075_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0075" width="246" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #8080ff; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: large;"> Somehow</span> this has become the piece that doesn’t want to end. It’s not that I am not putting time into it, because for the last 3 weeks I have averaged 6 hours a day 4-5 days a week. <br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;"><strong>Granted,</strong></span> I added another inch to it when I realized I had<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-A4QCFbhjgb0/UELW_nz9YnI/AAAAAAAADIU/1ira8QMQzco/s1600-h/DSC_0054%25255B16%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSC_0054" border="0" height="104" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-DxeM-OZvb0A/UELXAA4YK-I/AAAAAAAADIc/eORyNnkspKg/DSC_0054_thumb%25255B16%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0054" width="246" /></a> mis-measured and I was going to be short in my geometric lace pattern. My pattern was 3/4th of an inch short, but still…I have been working on this piece longer then any other piece I have ever woven. The finished piece will be approx. 28 inches by 19 inches-give or take .5 to 1 inch taller. A total of 812 square inches-give or take a bit when finished.<strong><span style="color: red; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;"> Yes, </span></strong> that does count the 19 extra square inches added because of the lace. <br />
<strong><em><u><span style="color: red; font-family: Matura MT Script Capitals; font-size: large;">So how did this happen.</span></u></em></strong> <br />
I’ve been weaving on “AND He…”since July of 2011. I guess it only seems longer. I did <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-lDjz5lRVTp0/UELXA-giHWI/AAAAAAAADIk/ofx0NQxYSjY/s1600-h/DSC_0061%25255B19%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0061" border="0" height="166" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-fG1G-jn-USM/UELXBUdCAjI/AAAAAAAADIs/EzdkdLTEDxs/DSC_0061_thumb%25255B24%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0061" width="246" /></a>weave 2 small tapestries while working on it –one with rya. And, I wove for 4 or 5 months more or less 3 days a week on Shelley’s piece. This time last year was I working on the two a chromatic roses.<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-SEn_rkKDn2o/UELXBwaPk0I/AAAAAAAADI0/IzEtglA-Jwg/s1600-h/DSC_0061%25255B23%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSC_0061" border="0" height="246" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-HbtadOA0UJ4/UELXCb0_DvI/AAAAAAAADI8/G9_UlNdFECQ/DSC_0061_thumb%25255B28%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0061" width="241" /></a> <br />
Up side down, because the piece wraps around my Mirrix Zeus.<br />
The weights hanging down are being used to keep two replaced warps at the proper tension while I weave.<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Jokerman; font-size: medium;">My assessment of the things I have Learned while weaving this piece and should have thought out-better.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #666666;">1.</span> I don’t especially enjoy weaving this large of a format. I am happiest weaving pieces under 15 x10 inches or smaller. I should have thought more about the difference between scale and format and that I was headed for dragon robe territory and a life time commitment of finishing one piece... <img align="right" height="154" src="http://www.cultural-china.com/chinaWH/upload/002.jpg" style="display: inline; float: right;" width="106" /></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #666666;">2.</span> It’s difficult for me to weave a piece if I can’t see the beginning as I weave. It fragments the narrative and energy in my mind. It sucks the joy out of the process of weaving. It becomes a chore that all I can think about is finishing the piece not the journey which is the wonderful part of tapestry weaving for me. Thanks for pointing this out to me Andrea*. I don’t have this problem working on a large loom and piece when it rolls around the beam for some reason and I have a lot of experience working on very large wool pieces.</span><br />
( Andrea Furber, a good friend who happens to be a pranic healer. Thanks Andrea-the energy is so much better now!)<br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #666666;">3.</span> I am a story teller at heart. I may not care if others understand my imagery or symbols, but the pieces I design are a narrative usually of something in my life and need to be a complete thought-even when I weave in a series. Series function as chapters of <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-qBMH5_ljTY0/UELXDzyOZOI/AAAAAAAADJU/0F2ibWurYZ8/s1600-h/DSC_0047%25255B9%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0047" border="0" height="93" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-e_20cCk3Ho8/UELXEEoe3_I/AAAAAAAADJY/sWxLWcuuMGY/DSC_0047_thumb%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0047" width="133" /></a>the my personal narrative. My sunsets are colour studies even when included in a narrative piece. I am happiest when images float on the background. A sensibility I inherited from both of my grandmothers that honours the needlework traditions of one and the ethnic sensibilities of the other. Think fancy embroidered tea towels and Lakota painting and bead work-no real backgrounds images float on a usually plain background.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #666666;">4 .</span> I should have set down and calculated the square inches of the piece before I started and made an informed decision. Perhaps broken the narrative into 4-5 pieces-a series of chapters. My average piece is around 100 square inches <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-LJ1f4eoJoho/UELXEeVkJuI/AAAAAAAADJk/QV_e3UWnL5c/s1600-h/DSC_0046%25255B9%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSC_0046" border="0" height="122" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-8ZP4Wg_ITM4/UELXEzSwZlI/AAAAAAAADJs/StXi7b004nE/DSC_0046_thumb%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0046" width="174" /></a>or less. I was so focused on doing the design, because it was one I started in wool at 10 epi when I had my 6.5 foot Shannock that I failed to consider the consequences. <span style="color: red; font-size: large;">AND,</span> I felt I needed to prove to myself that size and complexity doesn't make difference in the format and scale of one of my designs-note I said in my designs. I wanted it to be exactly half the size of the one I would woven as 10 epi and twice the size. <span style="color: red; font-family: Chiller; font-size: x-large;"><strong>Mentally,</strong></span> I never focused on<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-wtbRahM0KCo/UELXFRg7VYI/AAAAAAAADJ0/BV5FSdrnYis/s1600-h/DSC_0069%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0069" border="0" height="246" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-fZqLzKCOEJE/UELXFvJnHuI/AAAAAAAADJ8/hCsliuTdNtA/DSC_0069_thumb%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0069" width="132" /></a> the size of the piece. I checked my journals to see if I had written or thought out what the size entailed-an unthought consequence. <span style="color: red; font-family: Chiller; font-size: large;">Bad mistake!</span> Until Pat, John and Spencer, and I were eating lunch at the Calapoia Brewery a week ago. <span style="color: #9b00d3;">(One of our favourite hang outs even though we don’t drink what they brew, and have the best soups in the world-they don’t care how long we sit and talk and the food is great and it’s only 5 blocks from the studio...)</span><span style="color: blue;"> Anyway,</span> onward, I was in the process of whining about how I couldn’t seem to finish the piece. I needed to move on to the next piece, etc., etc., etc. Not<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-NDaeJsXA5mI/UELXGI74msI/AAAAAAAADKE/fDKa8BzYByo/s1600-h/DSC_0051%25255B11%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSC_0051" border="0" height="161" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-z7QJgsotSAo/UELXGlqFb6I/AAAAAAAADKM/kI49BJJ3R9c/DSC_0051_thumb%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0051" width="108" /></a> my usual whiney stuff-of which I am not proud of, but whining happens to the best of us at one time or another. John asked me how many square inches was in the piece and what was my usual square inches were that I usually wove a piece. It was then I knew how I left out an important part of the design process. <span style="color: red;">OUCH!!! I KNOW BETTER OR I SHOULD!!</span> Size or format really at some point is important to think about in the design process. Not just if the size will fit on the loom.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #666666;">5.</span> Unless I want to give the piece away I’ll probably never make my time or money back on the piece. It’s roughly a 45,000 dollar piece at the rate I calculate what a piece should cost when I sell it. So I probably-most likely created an unsalable white elephant. </span><br />
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<tr> <td valign="top" width="196"><span style="color: cyan; font-size: small;">A <b>white elephant</b> is an </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom"><span style="color: cyan; font-size: small;">idiom</span></a><span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: small;"> for a valuable but burdensome possession of which its owner cannot dispose and whose cost (particularly cost of upkeep) is out of proportion to its usefulness or worth. In modern usage, it is an object, scheme, business venture, facility, etc.,</span> <br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Liberated from Wikipedia</span></span> <br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #666666;">6.</span> Another consideration-I can show a years work for approximately 2 years according to most shows and exhibits that I enter. Basically, because of the two year thingy and how little I produced in the last year <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-xsDkmaJ2qlc/UELXG4jKw8I/AAAAAAAADKU/0jM_nYGgOO0/s1600-h/14126076-lucky-dice%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="14126076-lucky-dice" border="0" height="114" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-o_4GEfsyUnY/UELXHEIvDDI/AAAAAAAADKc/YqiOFveEc_E/14126076-lucky-dice_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="14126076-lucky-dice" width="114" /></a>it will take me anther year of work to come up with a large enough body of new work that I can show to have enough piece to enter the shows I wish to enter. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #666666;">7.</span> I need to sell my Mirrix Zeus and buy a smaller mirrix or even two smaller Mirrix. For 3 reasons---</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d16349;"><u>1st reason</u>-</span> mistakes such as working too large are soon forgotten a little like child birth once it’s over you forget the pain and sign up to do it again. <span style="color: red;"><strong><em><u>And,</u></em></strong></span> surprise it’s still just as painful as the first time! Some mistakes one never learns from<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-mSrirTN5uzo/UELXHviLZ3I/AAAAAAAADKk/prwGUnI7LbE/s1600-h/DSC_0066%25255B10%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0066" border="0" height="127" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-sBGGZZwMgFQ/UELXIPAtq1I/AAAAAAAADKs/czpg8Sl3zYk/DSC_0066_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0066" width="182" /></a> and I seem to be doomed to repeat mistakes over and over. Better to loose the temptation then repeat the suffering.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c0504d;"><u>2nd reason</u>.</span> At really tight tension and 20-22 ends per inch the shed gets narrower and narrower from one side to the other side. I have the feeling that over time the really tight tension will cause metal fatigue of the heddle bar. The metal fatigue being on the heddle bar not the frame of the loom. The frame really stands up to to the torture of the tight tension. Especially, If I am working narrower warps in the center of the loom. This one was 19 inches wide by 28 inches tall, which left roughly 7.5 inches on either side of the weaving. This heddle/shed problem is probably more likely if the piece has a smaller warp sett and the tension is adjusted tighter and left longer over time with a lot of beating along the fell line. Doesn’t happen on the smaller mirrix and I don’t think it would happen at larger warp setts on the Zeus. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><u><span style="color: #d16349;">3rd reason</span></u> the longer or further the spring is pulled the more error in the epi when stretched the full width of the warp. The spring allows a shift to a greater or larger epi. Example 18 epi instead of 20-22.So the epi can change as much as 4 ends per inch on the far <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-shf8qqblR8w/UELXIlCBqlI/AAAAAAAADK0/VJ1iEDQzILw/s1600-h/DSC_0049%25255B10%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSC_0049" border="0" height="103" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-lu1z4pKffOA/UELXJDJK9EI/AAAAAAAADK8/Q29sgqx-bzo/DSC_0049_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0049" width="147" /></a>side of the Zeus-either greater or lesser. There are things one can do such as keep checking the warp epi distance, Measure out the amount of spring curls and mark them. Then mark the beam and make sure the mark on the spring curl stays aligned with the mark on the beams by tying the spring several times along it’s length so it can’t ship. Or, buying a <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-8F-55RcfhSk/UELXJhGntRI/AAAAAAAADLE/rTIibEol4SA/s1600-h/DSC_0050%25255B17%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0050" border="0" height="125" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-HCUZe072i_U/UELXJ6lW0wI/AAAAAAAADLM/ecF7-Cu2jXI/DSC_0050_thumb%25255B14%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0050" width="174" /></a>heavier spring that is less flexible and adapt it to the Zeus. I checked my Hagen looms and realized the spring was much heavier and less likely to shift.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Even with the 2nd and third reasons I still think the mirrix looms are the best looms readily available for small format tapestry weaving. I’ll just trade it for a smaller mirrix or 2.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #666666;">8.</span> I need to but a molding around the edge of the console table that I work on. The more desperate I have become to finish this piece the klutzier I have become. I am so tired of picking tools, extra bobbins-not attached to the weaving, spools of thread that I knock off the table while weaving that I am going to at least get rid of that problem. . I am sure this simple solution of putting a molding around the table will benefit my sanity and do way with the incredible amount of lost weaving time due to an over abundance of dysfunctional tool pickup time and stuff stuff due to searching for things that roll and try to escape.</span><br />
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<tr> <td valign="top" width="452"><strong><em><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: small;">The above pictures are from my new herb gardens that are raised 2.5 feet off the ground. And one is a picture of the first pumpkin that I have ever grown. Thought it would be fun to have my own pumpkin for Thanksgiving pumpkin pies and soufflé. The other 2 pictures are my new raised herb gardens that I have spent so much time on this summer.. The picture of Chene is all about his trying to get my attention while I am trying to ignore all distractions and keep on weaving.</span></em></strong></td> </tr>
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<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;"><strong><em>FUN & MAGIC STUFF- <span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">I have actually get to do some fun thing's while weaving on the piece that doesn’t want to end.</span></em></strong></span><br />
<strong><em><span style="color: blue; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: small;"> Amazingly I took 4 days of silversmithing with <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-pb-U8I3APwM/UELXKV_iq3I/AAAAAAAADLU/PAAiINqBcFo/s1600-h/DSC_0072%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0072" border="0" height="139" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-CcFA_ER0Jt0/UELXKvtaEgI/AAAAAAAADLc/dGbRsho-eMs/DSC_0072_thumb%25255B10%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0072" width="114" /></a>Don Norris while he was here in Albany. Produced 2 rings and some great samples to work of techniques to work from.</span></em></strong><br />
<strong><em><span style="color: blue; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: small;">I was also able to see and do samples of some pretty interesting things. That I am sure will eventually show up in my silver work.<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-WUsj4K6AVEA/UELXLaJ9qSI/AAAAAAAADLk/OtefttcPBks/s1600-h/DSC_0055%25255B13%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0055" border="0" height="113" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-QA5GqiZ-_QY/UELXLhTQAzI/AAAAAAAADLs/IK35MCQqN8o/DSC_0055_thumb%25255B14%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0055" width="145" /></a></span></em></strong><br />
<strong><em><span style="color: blue; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: small;">Mixed metals-copper,brass,and silver earrings. Not polished-still show soldering marks. Which will allow me to do this.<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-2tiPeNcvTiY/UELXMOpBAJI/AAAAAAAADL0/mBAmL35Twtc/s1600-h/DSC_0058%25255B15%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSC_0058" border="0" height="117" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-MQeeZ3ZseDk/UELXMhKhc0I/AAAAAAAADL8/_h61sdIbrSo/DSC_0058_thumb%25255B13%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentColor; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0058" width="246" /></a></span></em></strong><br />
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Wire soldering of larger more complex pieces. I am really wanting to learn to do filigree boxes for my tapestries, but needed more information on soldering more complex thin wire pieces.So this was a good start towards those skills.<br />
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<strong><em><span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy;"><span style="color: magenta;">An aha magic trick of melting fine silver through copper to create holes and silver ridges.</span> </span></em></strong><br />
<strong><em><span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy;">Another trick of putting t-pins into the pickle with soldered copper pieces and the pickle sort of electroplates the copper to the silver solder.</span></em></strong><br />
<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy;"><span style="color: #333333;"><strong><em>I know these aren’t much and the aha’s are basic chemistry and physics, but to me they are still magical when I see them happen. It’s still very like my first discovery in metal work. With enough heat all mistakes melt away and become a spherical ball that can be reused to create something of beauty and it doesn’t matter it began as a mistake. Pure magic!</em></strong></span> </span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Brush Script MT; font-size: x-large;">SO enough for now. I still need a couple more hours of weaving on the piece that never seems to end.If all goes well I should be done by Monday evening! </span><br />
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<strong><em><span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;"> </span></em></strong>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09602511849713822619noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724368769805213.post-57782428940639377462012-08-08T18:45:00.001-07:002012-08-08T19:23:47.425-07:00Only a little later but the Nasties are bloomingbobbns<br />
I am having such a great summer. I am 5 days later then I should be in writing my blog.<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: medium;"> But,</span> I have a great excuse-For once it wasn’t my problem or procrastination. My husband Spencer had a rather sudden burning desire to go<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-7SQe82RFZ_0/UCMV-Jp7qwI/AAAAAAAADCU/n6-v-efZ08s/s1600-h/IMG_1279%25255B11%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="IMG_1279" border="0" height="159" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-Y3imgjQw_fM/UCMV-lFPvBI/AAAAAAAADCc/JWqLKySY9Eo/IMG_1279_thumb%25255B12%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1279" width="121" /></a> see his brother Mike in Great Falls. So we did! Didn’t <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-sSNOSCr_tOw/UCMV-9xrQKI/AAAAAAAADCk/k9jz3KesrCw/s1600-h/IMG_1307%25255B21%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="IMG_1307" border="0" height="99" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-1Ej6lLtE3b0/UCMV_KzHsjI/AAAAAAAADCs/nj-DPLI5cts/IMG_1307_thumb%25255B15%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1307" width="127" /></a>bother me in the least. I love talking to Maggie(sister-in-law)Lolo pass and 4th of July pass, the <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-A3oXqa7_CwQ/UCMWA3jMOJI/AAAAAAAADC0/gf1z7Jeeu8U/s1600-h/IMG_1256%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="IMG_1256" border="0" height="117" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-fZdRpsmonx8/UCMWBBbwrtI/AAAAAAAADC8/cgMY_fa52AE/IMG_1256_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="IMG_1256" width="151" /></a>emptiness and wildness. So we went for a <span style="color: blue; font-family: Poor Richard; font-size: large;">long</span> weekend.<br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Jokerman; font-size: medium;">I Love Great Falls</span><br />
in the summer, because it reminds me of my childhood summers in College Place. But, not so much in the winter. I am fascinated by the turn of the century brick buildings, wide streets and old houses, Art Deco Fair buildings and weird finned swimming buffaloes <span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Handwriting; font-size: medium;">AND,</span> of course, we went to the State Fair. I was able to keep to my goal of learning how to use the camera effectively on my i-phone. Still keep cutting off heads with it.<span style="color: red; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: large;"> So,</span> I have some great pictures to work into <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-fAxwbArYg30/UCMWBtQFxZI/AAAAAAAADDE/pvRzTBOR2Xc/s1600-h/DSC_0011%25255B13%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSC_0011" border="0" height="106" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-S6HMeXZmqBA/UCMWB-JK5TI/AAAAAAAADDM/wYsH1gzq_Oc/DSC_0011_thumb%25255B10%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0011" width="151" /></a>tapestries-if I <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/--y53kVEQr6w/UCMWCDuj2AI/AAAAAAAADDU/1L5skZEP3aQ/s1600-h/DSC_0006%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0006" border="0" height="131" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-qIAEZzTAY7Q/UCMWClAdOtI/AAAAAAAADDc/GtbNgjmZ0iQ/DSC_0006_thumb%25255B11%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0006" width="129" /></a>ever finish the<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-FDsjfqCAIeY/UCMWC2PV3KI/AAAAAAAADDk/7d5bJQ77SEo/s1600-h/DSC_0007%25255B18%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSC_0007" border="0" height="163" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-yyqhf5dn3_k/UCMWDeo6sXI/AAAAAAAADDs/dnE7HS9u7iM/DSC_0007_thumb%25255B21%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0007" width="126" /></a> piece I am working on. <span style="font-family: Brush Script MT; font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Brush Script MT; font-size: large;">Being on the edge of nowhere</span><br />
and looking out towards the dry grass and wheat lands. The sky really is <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-8Y18u56uGUg/UCMWDmnqIBI/AAAAAAAADD0/YIzvpgtVtL4/s1600-h/DSC_0016%25255B20%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0016" border="0" height="180" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-izT9rt9MbcE/UCMWD2zBuGI/AAAAAAAADD8/3XuFqdeg9Eo/DSC_0016_thumb%25255B17%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0016" width="121" /></a>bigger and brighter there. Oops, also saw a forest fire near Rogers Pass. Summer has it’s own particular smells. I hate it in the winter- cold AND SNOW--come to think about it I didn’t much like College Place in the winter-either. It’s a trip we used to make in a day-each way-now we make it in 2 days. We brought home Walla Walla Sweets for onion soup and Gramma’s Lakota pot au feu that goes on for days, blackberries for cobbler and fry bread with honey. And Antique metal work frills for the remodel that I hope to be done with by the last of September <br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Chiller; font-size: x-large;">Unfortunately,</span> reality eventually has to bite. Reality meant that I lost 5 days of weaving and will loose another 4 days to what was to be my reward for finishing “..and HE...” 4 days of intermediate level silversmithing classes with Don Norris, but I am not such a glutton for <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-ZZfWqOoVtks/UCMWEaG88FI/AAAAAAAADEE/lge_hLFifa4/s1600-h/DSC_0023%25255B19%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSC_0023" border="0" height="167" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-dgH9y24-Mw8/UCMWEh3ASoI/AAAAAAAADEM/sm1SGkN9OTk/DSC_0023_thumb%25255B16%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0023" width="246" /></a>punishment that I’ll deny myself the pleasure of the classes just because I missed a deadline. I’ll just work a few more hours everyday weaving-<strong><em><span style="color: red;">“right,”</span></em></strong> she said sarcastically to whom ever would listen. <br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><u><em>So</em></u></span> I’ll need to add another 5 days to my schedule. I think after I finish the lettering I’ll be about 90% of the way <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-MLkCVj6wx2Q/UCMWFS4JjiI/AAAAAAAADEQ/QSG7H4UQU7w/s1600-h/DSC_0021%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0021" border="0" height="167" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-8GcjYPTIPtU/UCMWFgXDc6I/AAAAAAAADEU/hmRyDig7TCo/DSC_0021_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0021" width="246" /></a>finished. Which means I am still not finished with “…And HE…” This is the piece that I was going to do 5 feet wide 6.5 feet tall on my large Shannock. The design seems to have gone on forever. It set on the loom for 3-4 years until I had an epiphany about needing to weave it in sewing thread and no wool. It lead to me selling my large Shannock. It just needs to be done!! I keep asking myself if I could have broken the design into smaller pieces or a series of small format pieces. Second guessing doesn’t seem to help it go any quicker. I don’t think it could have been. It’s definitely not a decorative piece. It tells a story. It has a narrative. Something I need to say to myself. There was a time that I though I could have broken the piece in half and still had a beautiful floral piece, but it would have lost all/ most of it’s impact, power and meaning. This quote keeps running through my head and journal and today it showed up on face book<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;">.-“Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”</span>Carl Jung It keeps be stubbornly not wanting to give up on it. <br />
<span style="font-family: Lucida Calligraphy; font-size: medium;">So what’s new in the piece</span>. I have started the scroll and am using linen thread to give it a different texture then the sewing and embroidery threads. I have started the gold soumack arabesque on the right side of the scroll. Gold threads can be a tad difficult to deal with especially those done in the style of aurum filatum. The weft bundles wear very easily, <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-WAHnWMpfocU/UCMWF2uabmI/AAAAAAAADEY/ZwIhfdm3L2w/s1600-h/DSC_0040%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0040" border="0" height="167" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Jbq7yvf0ajg/UCMWGzprntI/AAAAAAAADEc/isvgBgMoKBM/DSC_0040_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0040" width="246" /></a>because it is generally a paper or gold foil wrapped around a core of line cotton or polyester. It seems to be best not to us a bobbin tip or beat down to hard on the weft soumack twiner because it takes very little to wear through and unspin the gold. I am using 6-8 inch lengths of weft. I am also knotting the weft every 3-4 inches with an overhand knot to help keep it under control when doing the soumack twists. The letters are much easier. They are vertical soumack done in the smaller perle cotton-The up rights are one warp wide. <br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: large;">Ridging in tapestry.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">There are two different types of ridging in tapestry-one good and one not so good...</span> <br />
1. The ridge structure is actually a rib structure that is created by changing the shed <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-c18kAujkSRE/UCMWHVmKyqI/AAAAAAAADEk/vkX4f8Dt1SU/s1600-h/DSC_0033%25255B13%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0033" border="0" height="126" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-OybgRNoNRKY/UCMWHoLwnnI/AAAAAAAADEs/XCIvtex_B_0/DSC_0033_thumb%25255B15%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0033" width="120" /></a>and weaving multiple passes one on top of another. The valleys between the higher part of the rib is caused when the weft passes to the back of the warp. The rib or hill is created when the weft passes in front. The rib and valley structure run up the length of the warps. Rib structure and size is controlled by the size of warp, the size of the weft and the distance between two warps.Please note in this example the rib structure is woven at both 10epi and 5 epi by doubling up the warps to change the rib structure. <br />
Generally tapestry is considered to be an unbalanced weave structure more weft shows then warp. In a perfect world the warp size equals the distance between two warps and warps equals the size of the weft bundles-sort of. <span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">There are reasons</span> you might wish to unbalance one of the elements. To give an example-If you are weaving at 10 epi you can generally use a 12/6 or a 12/9 cotton seine twine with a bundle of 4 needlepoint yarns or paternayan.,5-6 Norwegian Elv yarns or Australian 20/2 wool. 12/6 will generally accept more passes in an inch allowing for more turns or hatches or hachures then 12/9. Because a 12/6 is smaller and there is slightly more weft in an inch of weaving the tapestry is more drapable. The 12/9 because it is larger and thicker will take fewer passes and be stiffer. The hand of the fabric is less drapable. <span style="color: blue;">You could</span> work 2 warps together as one to change the weft and warp structure for texture or to allow a larger weft bundle with many more elements in the weft bundle. The hand of the fabric will be softer the when it is woven at 10 epi. <span style="color: blue;">Another reason</span> to unbalance the weft bundle is suppose you are working in a very detailed<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-rd5dCTjkhRk/UCMWIBZicLI/AAAAAAAADFE/akJYhlnEY0s/s1600-h/DSC_0037%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0037" border="0" height="246" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-8aOy4Lsk3EE/UCMWI66jXtI/AAAAAAAADFM/_dzwHoZZJ6o/DSC_0037_thumb%25255B9%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0037" width="173" /></a> area you may need more passes in a given a space for detail or may need to have more hatches or hachures in a given area. Note eyelashes, chin and collar for very small hatches that were less then half the weft bundle in order to double up the amount of hatches in a given area. By making the weft bundle smaller you can get more passes of the weft bundle in a given area. <br />
The rib structure can be and often is flattened by pressing with a damp cloth. I prefer to not mess with the rib structure because in doing so you mess with the natural properties if inter-inflection and reflection of the light and colour that is inherent in the wools and fibers used to create tapestry that give a sort of inner glow as the light is captured in the hairy properties of the weft and the rib structure of the tapestry.So this type of ridging or rib structure is a good thing.<br />
<span style="color: #9b00d3; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: large;">The second type of ridging or organ pipes is caused by adding to much weft in a pass or half pass</span><br />
<a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-wQANvDnySS0/UCMWJijKE0I/AAAAAAAADFc/JlvpI-hHMLk/s1600-h/DSC_0026%25255B7%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0026" border="0" height="122" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-wtNtC49P5fE/UCMWKR3NHEI/AAAAAAAADFg/JNL_96nqAMg/DSC_0026_thumb%25255B10%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0026" width="100" /></a><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-VkSJ61FnNug/UCMWK1GfRyI/AAAAAAAADFs/i4oh4Zi0ip8/s1600-h/DSC_0027%25255B15%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="DSC_0027" border="0" height="126" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-GP16zTn0ObE/UCMWLeRwTFI/AAAAAAAADF8/pGxJo5O8FJ0/DSC_0027_thumb%25255B16%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0027" width="86" /></a> Notice the organ pipes in the grey background.on the right. I now know that all I would have had to do to get rid of the pipes would have been to use less weft in the bubble and tighten my warp so the piece would have woven without the wefts shifting. Often times tapestry weavers will have a tendency to add more weft or a larger weft bubble going in a specific direction creating pipes. If you know you do this you can always watch that particular half pass closer and correct as you go. <br />
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<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Zl1MPsq-Q8k/UCMWMbwyb_I/AAAAAAAADGI/uF1ks_1Tk6s/s1600-h/DSC_0030%25255B12%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0030" border="0" height="246" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-PrGtXidAQg8/UCMWMrpL5fI/AAAAAAAADGQ/DCAdOdjP9_4/DSC_0030_thumb%25255B9%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0030" width="167" /></a><br />
Hopefully, by looking closely you can see that there are 2 distinct areas of pipes on this piece. The first set is just basically organ pipes caused from using too much weft in the sleeve or cape above the hand. This could have easily been cured by using less weft in my bubble.<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-tz8PGXbkpOo/UCMWMxawGwI/AAAAAAAADGY/brRlLBDftKM/s1600-h/2012-08-08%252520175013%252520%2525282%252529bubble%25255B6%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="2012-08-08 175013 (2)bubble" border="0" height="246" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-YQSrdR8vKt4/UCMWNML2WgI/AAAAAAAADGg/_4IpI2Ouhng/2012-08-08%252520175013%252520%2525282%252529bubble_thumb%25255B8%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="2012-08-08 175013 (2)bubble" width="198" /></a> <br />
In the upper right hand corner is a type of organ pipe that is caused by weaving to close to the top bar that had been warped in a figure 8 pattern. As the warps or shed warps became further apart it took more weft to cover the warps because they were pulled further apart by the shed. <br />
There is a fairly easy solution that I didn’t understand when I wove this piece. Completely loosen the warp, twi<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-ysiKwAT2INQ/UCMWNjBZeUI/AAAAAAAADGo/KziTaLd9FsI/s1600-h/2012-08-08%252520173848twining%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img align="right" alt="2012-08-08 173848twining" border="0" height="170" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-f9Kk5EowYeI/UCMWOp52DLI/AAAAAAAADGw/D7P8cqulcHs/2012-08-08%252520173848twining_thumb%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="2012-08-08 173848twining" width="246" /></a>ne from side right above the fell line. use a fork pick the twining up and move it to the top of the loom right under the cross bar. You could also pick a shed and place a stick or batten in the closed shed under the twining and push the twining up to the top bar of the loom-effectively keeping the shed closed. Retighten the warp and weave the tapestry to the top. On a small loom you may need to needle weave the last passes<span style="color: blue; font-family: Comic Sans MS;">. A small aside-</span> This piece pulled in because I tried to weave it from side to side with one bobbin. If I had broken up the area into several smaller areas and wove them in the same colour using hatches or lazy lines the tapestry would not have woven in. Adding bobbins in a plain colour area shoves the woven areas out ass the turns place more weft in a smaller area rather then pulling in. <br />
<strong><u><span style="color: #9b00d3;">Illustrations and pictures are copyrighted images from the book Tapestry 101 and were created by Pat Spark.</span></u></strong><br />
<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-UWbJEWuQHus/UCMWO2HPJjI/AAAAAAAADG4/GB6iUV3oEVQ/s1600-h/DSC_0045%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img align="left" alt="DSC_0045" border="0" height="165" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-hSFJtI6w5B8/UCMWP0gaD8I/AAAAAAAADHI/zoHaEHPGwB4/DSC_0045_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="DSC_0045" width="244" /></a><br />
Guess that’s all for now. Hopefully in 2 weeks I can say and he is finished.<br />
Cheers,<br />
kathe<br />
PS. These are wild Hollyhocks and usually stand 6-7 feet tall, but have decided to creep along the edge of my new herb garden, Who would have guessed.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09602511849713822619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724368769805213.post-83161069037245338242012-07-17T18:57:00.001-07:002012-07-17T18:57:33.943-07:00Summer time and the living is great, but only if this works-3 part<p> </p> <p><font color="#ff0000" size="7" face="Lucida Calligraphy">More Soumack!</font></p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-OUenvJlZdf4/UAYYAesIjuI/AAAAAAAADBA/biHR9nyLxqE/s1600-h/DSCN0407%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0407" border="0" alt="DSCN0407" align="left" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-T0nSgM4uSw4/UAYYBCA6fBI/AAAAAAAADBI/3f1kvShxPmQ/DSCN0407_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="160" /></a>Most all of the soumack outlining in the feathers is structural Soumack which means it is done along a fell line even if it is an eccentric fell line. </p> <p>The Roman numerals in the clock face is vertical soumack that floats passes and is only controlled by where ever the next warp is that I let the soumack jump to. This type of soumack doesn’t have to go vertically. It<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-CkaQSKirt6k/UAYYBmrC1II/AAAAAAAADBQ/jBFDJuplYQA/s1600-h/DSCN0397%25255B10%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0397" border="0" alt="DSCN0397" align="right" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-LTFjd56D6i4/UAYYCA3grRI/AAAAAAAADBY/HCa_hOrFtpI/DSCN0397_thumb%25255B9%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="140" height="161" /></a>can go diagonally, horizontally or vertically. It can zig zag back and forth over a solid area of weaving. Not the example of the back and forth in the pale green area next to the dark soumack line which is a structural soumack.</p> <p>The quills of the 3 women’s feathers are structural soumack that has had the soumack twiners graded in different sizes-less or more to create the shaping and thickness of the quills. Under these feathers is another area of soumack—the outline of the puzzle piece that is under the bottom feather. This outline <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-RFNJ_dEeEWI/UAYYCuP0s9I/AAAAAAAADBg/UmYVxvGrsvQ/s1600-h/DSCN0399%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0399" border="0" alt="DSCN0399" align="right" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-m5LGYs8C7yg/UAYYDLaHvOI/AAAAAAAADBo/4pYVsdYNqyA/DSCN0399_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="199" height="154" /></a>is both structural and vertical. </p> <p>In the horizontal direction the line is structural soumack running along the fell line and then turns and moves vertically over several over several passes to become vertical soumack. To a certain extinct the width and thickness of the line can be controlled by the amount of passes that the vertical soumack passes over between encircling the warps.</p> <p>hopefully this will post this time? </p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09602511849713822619noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724368769805213.post-46915685026270336892012-07-17T18:46:00.001-07:002012-07-17T18:46:08.254-07:00Summer time and the living is great2-maybe if I can just get things to work!!<font color="#9b00d3" face="Broadway">So what happens when you want your lines to fall between 2 warps?-</font> <p><font color="#ff0000" size="5" face="Lucida Calligraphy">weft twinning</font></p> <p>A few of the very small dark turquoise lines in the feathers are weft twining. The first diagram is twining along a fell line. So Twining can have the same categories as soumack<a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-t2zZEf74a-U/UAYVPnr1JJI/AAAAAAAAC-c/NWaRMDZuaJM/s1600-h/twining-fell-line-copy_thumb1_thumb_%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="twining-fell-line-copy_thumb1_thumb_" border="0" alt="twining-fell-line-copy_thumb1_thumb_" align="left" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-JPa91_bepfM/UAYVQHMoEMI/AAAAAAAAC-k/BVQP0D66rS0/twining-fell-line-copy_thumb1_thumb__thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="172" height="79" /></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-awRJnJP3UYU/UAYVQXuFkeI/AAAAAAAAC-s/PC5nRj9Br50/s1600-h/twinning-over-weft-passses-copy_thum%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="twinning-over-weft-passses-copy_thum" border="0" alt="twinning-over-weft-passses-copy_thum" align="right" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-cMwKQAFfTlA/UAYVR7duL2I/AAAAAAAAC-0/okEu1wfj384/twinning-over-weft-passses-copy_thum_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="129" height="244" /></a>-structural twining And vertical twining over passes. Most of the same rules and conditions apply to weft twining as apply to soumack. Where Soumack is always controlled by a warp, twining is always between the warps.Twining has a few super powers that you can’t do with soumack.</p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-BYD8gIj0TJc/UAYVSE6T4NI/AAAAAAAAC-8/8StcwMlA7QM/s1600-h/two-colour-copy_thumb_thumb_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="two-colour-copy_thumb_thumb_thumb" border="0" alt="two-colour-copy_thumb_thumb_thumb" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-yBYv4EE5nDU/UAYVSbi2eCI/AAAAAAAAC_E/d3dL0QDphjQ/two-colour-copy_thumb_thumb_thumb_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="131" /></a></p> <p>It can be two colour. Makes great dots and lines depending on how many passes you fly over between twist. It can also be used for creating cool textures and cool herringbone patte<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-LUnLuah9o70/UAYVS8Xl5xI/AAAAAAAAC_M/eNlqQ4XN3eY/s1600-h/DSC_0083_thumb1_thumb_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC_0083_thumb1_thumb_thumb" border="0" alt="DSC_0083_thumb1_thumb_thumb" align="left" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-6zl4T6Xoo1Q/UAYVTJAUM1I/AAAAAAAAC_Q/-WElYIQUMRs/DSC_0083_thumb1_thumb_thumb_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="227" height="157" /></a>rns in conjunction with tapestry. It’s texture like soumack is controlled by the size of the weft bundle or twiner. </p> <p>There is a form of tapestry and twining done by Bedouin weavers called sahah’s which is a twined flat woven Bedouin tapestry. If I remember right I first read about it in a book called the <u>Hand of the Weaver</u> by…I need to find the book again, but it is definitely described in Joy Totah Hilden’s book on <u><strong>Bedouin Weaving of Saudi Arabia and it’s neighbors.</strong></u> The twining can have extremely elaborate patterning that works well with tapestry technique and twining patterns-both structural and floating types.The schematic drawings are from My book Lines in Tapestry and were done by Pat Spark.</p> <p><font face="Comic Sans MS"></font></p> <font color="#ff00ff" size="5" face="Lucida Handwriting">New favourite tool</font> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-JOoUD-DOPAo/UAYVTleaJQI/AAAAAAAAC_c/tM_I2mVXXXc/s1600-h/DSC_0071_thumb4_thumb_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC_0071_thumb4_thumb_thumb" border="0" alt="DSC_0071_thumb4_thumb_thumb" align="right" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/--spe8U0RKok/UAYVUMnFeDI/AAAAAAAAC_k/p6AELGUvh14/DSC_0071_thumb4_thumb_thumb_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="195" /></a></p> <p><strong><font size="4" face="Jokerman">Okay, Okay</font></strong> there is nothing new about brassy bob’s. This is a box of 5.5 brassy bobs that I love. They look like little sardines. BUT, I have a new favourite. It’s a 4 inch brassy bob that fits perfectly in the palm of my hand. I have never used to hold thread. I use it as a tool for moving so<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-LIUbE7Rd-Lg/UAYVUXi1qmI/AAAAAAAAC_s/4N2SxwhnFek/s1600-h/brassy-bob_thumb6_thumb_thumb%25255B2%25255D.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="brassy-bob_thumb6_thumb_thumb" border="0" alt="brassy-bob_thumb6_thumb_thumb" align="left" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-us3HMNpkbNo/UAYVUnDalfI/AAAAAAAAC_0/qLad2g-mERo/brassy-bob_thumb6_thumb_thumb_thumb.png?imgmax=800" width="145" height="103" /></a>umack and twining around when I am working. It’s like have a 6th finger that doesn’t get hangnails and the finger nail never wears or breaks. The other tools are a 5.5 inch brassy bob and a 5.5 Swedish bobbin that I do, but weft on. </p> <p><font color="#4bacc6" size="6" face="Brush Script MT">Time to get on with life.</font></p> <p>Need to Find Chene. He seems to have gone into hiding. Sara is shredding today and he doesn’t like the sound.<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-z3r_-mP6f74/UAYVU8RFi4I/AAAAAAAAC_8/fHIhpbRFf-k/s1600-h/DSC_0073_thumb5_thumb_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC_0073_thumb5_thumb_thumb" border="0" alt="DSC_0073_thumb5_thumb_thumb" align="right" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-96lNYRHpELk/UAYVVEGxYiI/AAAAAAAADAE/BYc0wO0l1H8/DSC_0073_thumb5_thumb_thumb_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="160" height="155" /></a></p> <p>The world is full of surprises! Who would have guessed that purple potatoes have purple blooms instead of the normal White. Or that a dog that<a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-8BtqGsN08Hg/UAYVVk387fI/AAAAAAAADAM/SZruEu9yfVc/s1600-h/DSC_0020_thumb_thumb_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC_0020_thumb_thumb_thumb" border="0" alt="DSC_0020_thumb_thumb_thumb" align="left" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-FgwJ8iIZUOY/UAYVWEFvaGI/AAAAAAAADAU/RPqWosVgQQc/DSC_0020_thumb_thumb_thumb_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="165" /></a> stayed calm during fireworks and explosions across the street of a van would panic at the sound of a paper shredder and hide.</p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-MlwuRkoWv9w/UAYVWf0bDZI/AAAAAAAADAc/q-YRDnaAYJs/s1600-h/DSC_0096_thumb5_thumb_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC_0096_thumb5_thumb_thumb" border="0" alt="DSC_0096_thumb5_thumb_thumb" align="right" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-TnOcDyGcW9I/UAYVW2yLccI/AAAAAAAADAk/g1x7jBbmpTA/DSC_0096_thumb5_thumb_thumb_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="165" height="244" /></a></p> <p>Enough for now! Have to go save the Chene from the dastardly stationery paper shredder that won’t run away from him.</p> <p>kathe</p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-qQwvlKQf_Uk/UAYVXWYM71I/AAAAAAAADAs/QXNN89DAEuc/s1600-h/DSC_0094_thumb10_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC_0094_thumb10_thumb" border="0" alt="DSC_0094_thumb10_thumb" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-T2CXAU4aR2I/UAYVX6YxwqI/AAAAAAAADA0/_2YDPcv1vbw/DSC_0094_thumb10_thumb_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="484" height="346" /></a></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09602511849713822619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724368769805213.post-40554942560234839632012-07-17T18:32:00.001-07:002012-07-17T18:32:45.275-07:00Summer Time and the living is great-part 1<p><font color="#ff0000" size="5" face="Magneto">It’s been two weeks since my last post.</font> I am enjoying my summer time. No deadlines unless they are mine. Doesn’t mean I don’t have a lot to do just <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-DNid6eX_lHM/UAYSFHvmwQI/AAAAAAAAC4Y/65yv_MDkqx0/s1600-h/DSC_0089_thumb7_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC_0089_thumb7_thumb" border="0" alt="DSC_0089_thumb7_thumb" align="left" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Ifwj2zyw2TA/UAYSFp8zfsI/AAAAAAAAC4g/JS4TSZndq50/DSC_0089_thumb7_thumb_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="110" height="165" /></a>that I am doing them in my own way in my own time, my own schedule, my own hours. Even spent one day out while Spencer went fishing. Tucked in my little tiny Lani mirrix, warped and wove beside a stream for a whole afternoon. The Lani says it’s a dedicated bead loom-gr, but to me it’s a perfect take along tapestry loom-<font color="#0000ff" size="4" face="Lucida Handwriting"><strong><em>that and</em></strong></font> a book and I am <font size="4"><font color="#8000ff" face="Jokerman">deliriously happy</font>.</font> It’s the beginning of another portrait of Chene. Looks huge, but the weaving is only a little less then 5 inches wide-maybe 7 inches tall. I adapted the loom by doing a continuous warp and then tied one of the warping bars that I don’t use between the sheds so I can weave faster. With one open shed I only need to pick one shed. I also had made small bars to go through the spring to stabilize the warps and hold them in place-just like the larger mirrix have. The whole loom fits in a very small book bag<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-dUGTC39CPr8/UAYSFyIdQdI/AAAAAAAAC4o/Czk61zDBjDg/s1600-h/DSC_0082_thumb6_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC_0082_thumb6_thumb" border="0" alt="DSC_0082_thumb6_thumb" align="right" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-hjeJ6xYYq2Q/UAYSH4iOlXI/AAAAAAAAC4w/1fYolbe88QY/DSC_0082_thumb6_thumb_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="180" height="125" /></a> that’s about the size of a sheet of paper. I have no idea when I’ll finish it. <font color="#ff00ff" size="3" face="Jokerman">Doesn’t matter!</font> It’s meant to travel with me and be my entertainment when I travel or kill time while Spencer fishes<font color="#0000ff"><font size="1" face="Comic Sans MS">.(Sort of a puzzle because he always throws them back. I don’t eat or cook fish.</font>)</font> This <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-pOTgkRld6kg/UAYSJeksi3I/AAAAAAAAC44/aqW6rPKFEhw/s1600-h/DSC_0091_thumb5_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC_0091_thumb5_thumb" border="0" alt="DSC_0091_thumb5_thumb" align="left" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-N91y5Vdo_m8/UAYSJ9o7pVI/AAAAAAAAC5A/bgvO6bls3dA/DSC_0091_thumb5_thumb_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="98" height="120" /></a>tapestry cartoon is a photo I took last Christmas of Chene when I was trying to tempt him into a walk in the rain on the beach. In a way it reminds me of the sly virgin in the Unicorn tapestries. He’s laying on a purple pillow that has edges of a tapestry(fake-Jacquard) loveseat. </p> <p>Spencer helping with FFP so I get to weave more hours and he doesn’t feel guilty leaving to go fishing while I work. When he is not working on his EBay business or garage selling to find inventory. We spend a couple of <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-QGglvV-fgeY/UAYSKFoGe7I/AAAAAAAAC5I/4VzUERXVhyg/s1600-h/DSC_0084_thumb1_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC_0084_thumb1_thumb" border="0" alt="DSC_0084_thumb1_thumb" align="right" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-TNlnjSZjvDA/UAYSKbEHxCI/AAAAAAAAC5Q/PUtgtUfgFlY/DSC_0084_thumb1_thumb_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="153" height="106" /></a>days a week hitting sales. In another life I might have been a great picker. The sales were really good to me this week. I found 3 beautifully twined rugs(American Craft style) and a beautiful middle<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-ACAtlldM0QE/UAYSKkbOiKI/AAAAAAAAC5Y/1ujAyKgVpxU/s1600-h/DSC_0102_thumb15_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC_0102_thumb15_thumb" border="0" alt="DSC_0102_thumb15_thumb" align="left" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-kd33vuzXha8/UAYSLCLTWrI/AAAAAAAAC5g/rE4wspX1w84/DSC_0102_thumb15_thumb_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="244" height="167" /></a> eastern storage bag that is both pile, flat weave and tapestry. The pile is so soft it’s fun to lay and sit on. It has a fringe on one side and you can see the back where it is folded back. The confusion in the photo comes <a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-ngyZ4eG-mLA/UAYSLX9xPuI/AAAAAAAAC5o/pvSRQ6UG0Fc/s1600-h/DSC_0098_thumb17_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC_0098_thumb17_thumb" border="0" alt="DSC_0098_thumb17_thumb" align="right" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-mFjrlivTsJw/UAYSLxUMDxI/AAAAAAAAC5w/TbkiPFNbpUw/DSC_0098_thumb17_thumb_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="146" height="102" /></a>from the kelim it is laying on. It’s colouring looks very dark, but actually has some turquoise in the pattern. I think it’s been wrapped and stored for a long time and I wonder if it will lighten as it is exposed to light making the pattern more distinct.</p> <p><font color="#9b00d3" face="Lucida Handwriting"><strong><font size="6">And, </font>where I am at now-2/3 almost 3/4 of the way finished.</strong></font></p> <p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-ls-sdrp26zw/UAYSMIT046I/AAAAAAAAC54/rJwSz8sH3lc/s1600-h/DSCN0403_thumb8_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0403_thumb8_thumb" border="0" alt="DSCN0403_thumb8_thumb" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-u33kkex-IDY/UAYSMsPo8HI/AAAAAAAAC6A/xcEDspY6G5k/DSCN0403_thumb8_thumb_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="117" height="91" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-sEQik5qnIuI/UAYSMzt4etI/AAAAAAAAC6I/AMXGz-nxnjQ/s1600-h/DSCN0408_thumb12_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0408_thumb12_thumb" border="0" alt="DSCN0408_thumb12_thumb" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-FrayaEKAX44/UAYSNHaF3KI/AAAAAAAAC6Q/D3ReCVYS5Vk/DSCN0408_thumb12_thumb_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="121" height="96" /></a><font color="#0000ff" size="1">Before the turn--</font><font size="1"><font color="#0000ff">After the turn-back of the loom</font> <a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-mqTdF3ZJ1a8/UAYSNZwyQRI/AAAAAAAAC6Y/apsvlBY56-k/s1600-h/DSCN0407_thumb5_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCN0407_thumb5_thumb" border="0" alt="DSCN0407_thumb5_thumb" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-u5X4FBai7Bc/UAYSNga9IkI/AAAAAAAAC6g/uIYjoiDfKVM/DSCN0407_thumb5_thumb_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="119" height="95" /></a></font></p> <p><font size="3"><font color="#ff0000" size="5" face="Chiller">The hardest part of this last 2 weeks</font> has been worrying about turning “And He…” around the beams of the mirrix and not throwing the fell line and selvedges into unevenness. It’s really big and not as comfortable or as easy to turn as a smaller tapestry-21 inches wide. I found that If I wove fairly even across the fell line,<a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-wZPk5DPhPz0/UAYSOBZ0ivI/AAAAAAAAC6o/aJjSu5PtQsw/s1600-h/DSC_0077_thumb5_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC_0077_thumb5_thumb" border="0" alt="DSC_0077_thumb5_thumb" align="left" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-5fmNHssFldo/UAYSOa1757I/AAAAAAAAC6s/LfQVdPnMU74/DSC_0077_thumb5_thumb_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="87" height="108" /></a><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-cuYHtI6ArXE/UAYSOg3U8CI/AAAAAAAAC60/4MsX4G0lmx0/s1600-h/DSC_0079_thumb19_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSC_0079_thumb19_thumb" border="0" alt="DSC_0079_thumb19_thumb" align="right" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-BOZ0jkMNO10/UAYSPMCVcDI/AAAAAAAAC7A/hHvdI_uiwHM/DSC_0079_thumb19_thumb_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="149" height="119" /></a> inserted a Navajo batten with the sharp edge against the fell line, loosened the tension all the way, and used the batten as a two sided handle I could gently force the warps through the spring and the tapestry down and around to the back.<font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Old English Text MT">(Very long run on sentence, but true)</font> On the back of the loom the last picture of the 3 you can see weights hanging to hold the warps that I accidently cut with a spring loaded snips. The snips have been banished from the studio.</font> </p> <p><font color="#8000ff" face="Comic Sans MS"> <table border="4" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="511"><tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="503">The order of things has been changed from the original post because the way I first had it wouldn’t publish to my blog. You’ll find more about Soumack after weft twining.</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </font></p> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09602511849713822619noreply@blogger.com0