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Waiting in Chains

chained warp

The title of this post sounds like a bad romance novel, doesn’t it?  It’s not, it’s a reference the  Read more >>

Blogging by Proxy

I'm teaching a beginning rigid-heddle class at Weaving Works in Seattle today so I'd originally thought there would be no blog post today. Read more >>

Gifts from the Washing Machine

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I washed the rayon chenille that I took off my AVL.  As expected, some of it was completely unusable cloth.  Sacrificed to the gods of learning.

But here, completely pettable and respectable is four yards of cloth, 36 inches wide.  I washed it on cold/normal and then dried it with some towels on tumble-dry-low to beat it up a bit and soften the fabric.  (Woven chenille right off the loom feels a lot like cardboard.) Read more >>

My History in Code

coding

  iStockphoto)I first encountered a computer in eighth-grade gifted class.  Read more >>

In the Space of One Warp

AVL-woven fabric

If you listened to the first WeaveCast, you’ll know that I didn’t take to weaving immediately.  I bought a used Baby Wolf loom Read more >>