Category: 4 Shaft Weaving
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Travelling by Making
You don’t have to leave home to travel when you have the textile love in you.
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Saori in Japan
My trips to Japan always include time at Saori no Mori in Osaka. It’s a time to catch up with what is going on in the Saori world, learn more ways of working on the threads and just delve into my own weaving time. I always meet new people and learn my way around the…
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Weavers, warps, weaving
Warps for the new year are starting to appear in the studio and learning to wind a warp is the most exhilarating adventure of all. Yes, pre-wound warps are wonderful but winding your own has the ultimate colour and texture option especially designed with your own mood. Cheryl has been in the studio learning the…
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New year and all that
I’d like to wish all readers and customers a very peaceful, health filled and interesting new year. Life can be very hard indeed and it breaks my heart that so many people suffer so much in our world. A friend said to me some time ago that I was lucky I have weaving. And yes,…
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The Start of Winter Weaving
Another great workshop completed last weekend and I was especially impressed with the ideas of the participants, including two who had been to the studio previously. Each participant came with such interesting life backgrounds and experiences which I think they imparted directly in their woven cloth. The cloth photographed here is by Caroline. Donni studied double weave…
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Four Shaft Saori Adventures
A few Saori weavers in Australia choose to have the option of the 4 shaft spring system conversion kit. This can be a great choice for many reasons. For established weavers it allows all the patterning options of the classical weaving they love combined with the efficiency, portability, comfort and compact styling of the Saori…