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Site outage and temples

By Tien Chiu | Published: June 20, 2011

You may have noticed that the site was down for most of yesterday, the result of a botched DNS update.  I’ve corrected things and everything should be OK now, but please let me know if anything else looks wonky. Despite a trying day yesterday, I did manage to get some things done this weekend: threaded, [...]

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Colors, colors

By Tien Chiu | Published: June 10, 2011

I finished the first sample panel: My conclusions: I do need to mingle the bouts near the edges, as some striping is evident where the bouts got out of sync.  This is most obvious in the left-hand side of the yellow section, but is also visible in the lower right of the red section.  It’s [...]

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First panel

By Tien Chiu | Published: June 9, 2011

By working diligently (okay, obsessively ), I have managed to get the first blank knitted, dyed, unraveled, and on the loom.  Here is a shot of the pirns – aren’t they pretty? And here is the beginning of the weaving: My only critique (so far) is that some of the color changes lo0k more abrupt [...]

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Ready to weave!

By Tien Chiu | Published: June 7, 2011

Yesterday I finished threading, sleying, and tying on, and also threw the first few picks before we went out to dinner: I am still weaving the header, as you can see; as soon as the warp evens out a bit and the bouts are fully separated, I’ll start debugging the warp.  Hopefully there shouldn’t be [...]

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The painted-warp puzzle

By Tien Chiu | Published: June 3, 2011

While I spent most of this week biting my nails and waiting by the phone (job interview nerves), I have wound and painted a new seven-yard sample warp, one which I hope will help me solve some of the process puzzles around making a painted warp (almost) precisely reproducible. The problem is this: I need [...]

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