Category: Toika loom
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The Stones of Old Bar Beach
Old Bar beach is a bit unusual on the coastline of NSW in Australia. Its incredible cover of stones seem to come from the nearby Manning River, and they gather everywhere then disappear for a few days. Everyone who comes to the studio comments on them. Old Bar Beach is a beachcomber’s delight. The thing…
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What’s the hurry?
This is a bigger job on the loom at the moment. I’m revisiting a mini disaster of an exquisite double weave fabric, determined this time for it to really work for me. It is a double weave with two different warps creating the one cloth. Although all of my samples worked last time, I encountered…
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Weaving Air and Weave Momentum
As I’m trying to keep up a weave momentum on my loom and in my head I just needed to get something quickly on my loom before my double weave experiments get up and running. I chose to have a go at a deflected doubleweave scarf that is in Handwoven Jan 09 by Barbara Herbster (p.…
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Weaving on the 24 Shaft Toika
I LOVE my new Toika loom. The ‘lack of’ pedal action is amazing. Here is a video of me weaving a few picks on my bamboo shawl. It’s already off the loom and being finished. The only mistake I made due to lack of restraint is that I washed my shawl before finishing off 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…