Category: Saori
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Unintended Discoveries (no mistakes?)
What is a mistake but an unintended discovery. I have heard that for every intended purpose there is a unintended consequence. If you have anything to do with computers or software generally, I’m thinking of MS Sharepoint here, you’ll know that every apparently good and noble change to configuration equals a flurry of complaints about another unintended…
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Saori with a ‘twist’
I can’t type up any post without expressing my shock and sadness at the events unfolding in Japan. It seems, amidst the confusing and conflicting news reports, that the nuclear emergency is overshadowing the present suffering of the Japanese residents in affected areas. Obviously any human community will have difficulties co-ordinating such a situation and may…
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Sew Saori
I’m now wearing my first Saori garment after my Saori Japan visit. It’s a simple constructed ‘shrug’ style created from an approx. 260cm x 40 cm length which I stitched into a circle leaving one of the fringes on the outside, then stitched along one length leaving room for ‘armholes’.
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You can’t have too many looms
I think we can always make room for another loom, don’t you. Even seven more lining the edge of a wall waiting their time to perform a duet. This was one of the exciting views in the Osaka Saori Studio.
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Can your loom Spin?
Can it be that your loom can spin! Well, yes it seems a Saori loom can. Ok it’s not your sit down and chill out type of rhythmical spinning but it quickly spins a yarn straight onto your bobbin to weave immediately. This means getting to create a weave textile when you’re dreaming of yarns…
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What does Saori Mean?
“Ori” is weaving in Japanese. A little word that means so much. For me the essence of Saori is simplistic beauty drawn from the action of weaving. In my view this beauty is: the process of weave and how we relate to the threads and woven rows building the cloth. In Saori this is emphasised to include…
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Warping for Dummies?
I haven’t done many dummy warps but my Saori loom presented a nice opportunity for its use last week. I’d come to the end of the original black warp and had dyed another cotton one to beam. Simply tying on the new warp on seemed so sensible to me. I didn’t use a weavers knot although…
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Clasped Weft Weaving for Great Designs
Here is what you can achieve with Clasped Weft. It’s an easy technique for making angled patterns and only requires two shafts. These visual instructions use two colours (green and blue).The green weft is wound onto a bobbin on a shuttle and the blue weft is drawn up from the floor underneath the loom..…