I really wanted to take advantage of the winter holiday break to get a solid start on the woven component(s) for this project, which meant choosing and preparing yarns, dressing the loom, starting the cloth, and getting into a steady groove to weave some yardage. After a whirlwind trip to Washington DC at the end… Continue reading ready set go…
I think I'm ready to start working on some cloth. Browsing through handweaving.net I found a set of drafts that share a 98-end threading (#63401, #63375, #61552, #60935, ...) that would provide a nice range of patterns in light color contrast for subsequent dyeing, although the tie-ups would need to be changed among them...
With a tool like a loom, oftentimes the primary barrier to starting a new project is the need to finish a previous project. This week I finally finished a small scarf project that I started back in August, using naturally dyed wool yarns I brought back from Iceland. My loom is finally free!
Intermateriality:Redox 