I’m starting to prepare for my cross-dyeing experiments. This time I’m going to put on a 10″ wide warp in 10/2 cotton, and weave it off with Henry’s Attic Alpaca Lace as weft. The 10/2 cotton is 4200 ypp and the Alpaca Lace is only 4960 ypp, but as the alpaca will fluff up a [...]
My dye sink arrived! I darted out to the restaurant wholesaler this morning and picked it up before heading off to Drupal Camp at Stanford. (One of my projects at work is being implemented on the Drupal platform, so work sent me to this mini-conference.) I dropped the dye sink off and managed to set [...]
(but, fortunately, not looms that are lemons!) We went over this evening and flipped over the loom platform, then covered it with a roll of black rubber flooring, like so: It’s wonderful – nicely resilient and nonskid. I suspect, however, that I made a tactical error with the coloring – we didn’t even manage to [...]
Mike and I went over to the house last night and built the loom platform. Here’s the underside: It’s basically a layer of 3/4″ plywood with 2″x2″s nailed down along the long side. Today I plan to flip it, apply double-sided carpet tape, and put on a 4×8 sheet of rubber flooring. I decided on [...]
I’m currently working on the most tedious job of all: finishing touches. In particular, I’m preparing the handling swatches for my yardage gallery entries, by binding the raw edges with silk charmeuse. It’s a laborious process, taking about two hours per swatch, and makes me impatient because mentally I’ve moved on from both projects. In [...]
