First fleece down! I started out with 1 pound 8 ounces of washed Shetland fleece. The listing said the locks were 2-3 inches long, they were actually 4-5 inches long. Since I only had hand cards, I struggled for a bit to figure out how to do this. Plus it was my first time doing […]
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Weaving Project #3
Another weaving project! First larger project on the same tiny loom and I used my handspun yarn. My warping pegs (brackets attached to my grow light stand) worked super well and I was very pleased with how they worked. So all my projects will be 46 inches long for a while. I learned that the […]
Flax Splicing
Flax splicing research article here and a less scientific article here Essentially you can make super super fine fibers by splicing instead of drafting and I wanted to see if I could do it. I’ve been doing a bunch of reading up on it and various techniques in various places. Initial thoughts on my experimenting, I did […]
Weaving Project #2
I made another thing! The only thing I’m not happy about is the braided ends and that was only so I could take it off the dowels and figure out what to do with it. I had planned for it to be a bracelet but as it turns out, I know nothing of how to […]
Second Project
I warped a second weaving project yesterday, right around lunch time and got so into it that I forgot to eat lunch. Whoops. I was essentially doing the same as my first project but muchwider. So I warped with the tatting crochet on my niddy noddy, so the warp is around 1 foot long. I […]
Another hobby
I said I wasn’t going to pick up another hobby but I figured out how to make the world’s smallest backstrap loom out of pvc pipe and started weaving with tatting crochet thread and a tapestry needle as a shuttle. oh well. I should be able to use this with larger yarn for narrow projects, […]
Flax Gem
Found a flax gem on a forum: “Classic European way to spin line is on a low-whorl or all-in-one spindle with either a body-braced or a free-standing distaff and grasped or very short suspended. Using the traditional tools makes a big difference here. The ancient Egyptian way to spin flax was to select fibers from […]
Another rabbit hole awaits
I started working on a fleece. So I bought a washed shetland fleece a few weeks ago and the hand cards back in December. Hand cards were $45 with shipping and that was a great deal. I planned to get some in March or April but the price was good. The fleece was a 1 […]
Today’s Interesting Read
Reproduction Textiles! Link here.I’m currently working my way through the research paper that is linked in the text and describes the piece that the reproduction is based on. The paper is fascinating too!
Hmmm
I said I was going to wait until march to buy fiber prep equipment but a set of hand cards popped up for $45 including shipping aaaaaand I’m getting them I have also found some washed fleeces in weird corners of the internet so I know they are out there. I haven’t ordered any yet. […]