Category: Looms
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Thailand, Laos and the Textile Track – Heddles
Well I started with the previous post using the spinning of Thailand/Laos as a feature but now it’s the heddles.If you are a weaver you’ll be bowled over by the heddle overload in these countries. Heddles are strings (in this case) which have an eye or loop of some sort allowing a weaver to pick…
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A day in the life of looms 2015
Happy, happy 2015! What a start to the new year with a studio full of weavers! Albeit little relatives. Thank you to Meg for initiating this reason for snapping photos of our much loved looms. Yes, I’m a little late but this time of year is busy doing kitchen and cleaning things and…
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Memories and pre-wounds
I recently had a great day involved in the repair of a very special local community loom . Years ago as a young newly enthralled weaver, we used to holiday at Forster beach. The very special north facing and beautiful main beach had a craft centre right on the water. It was filled with all…
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Starting with purple
Firstly a very happy and healthy new year to all my readers. A new year seems to be a time of reflection and new beginnings and it’s a good opportunity to get motivated about something entirely different. My new studio is just about complete and it is wonderful. It is light and airy which I…
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The countermarche tie up
Decision time again with my countermarche tie up. I don’t really want to have crawl under my 144 treadle ties to get this loom going for new patterns. I want to be able to control them at a higher level, preferably on top of the lamms. I tried these instructions first which offer a good overview of…
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Manualizing a Loom?
It’s unheard of, I know. Manualizing the loom. A method and word so unheard of that manualizing isn’t even a word! Although it’s sitting here as a conundrum with a glaring deficit of explaination. One reference in google is to creating a manual transmission from an automatic one in a car. This is what I’m…
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What has handweaving come to?…..hexagons…
My tardiness in getting to blog posts is getting predicable.Weaving has become difficult with continuing problems on my digital loom. The replacement card seems to be a bit different to the previous one and the mechanics need some modifications. However, it’s all helping me feel more confident in what is behind the workings of the…
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Kaz and the Cosmos
Well the time has arrived and I’m assembling my new Toika loom. It’s alot of pieces but I enjoy a good jigsaw. Although I haven’t been posting I’ve had alot of weaving and life going on in the background and the assembly of the loom was almost a meditative practice for me. I’ve nearly finished the…