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Phoenix profile draft

By Tien Chiu | Published: September 18, 2012

I spent some time tinkering this morning and came up with the following profile draft: It still needs considerable work (the profile draft is on 24 shafts so I need to respace/resize it for 22 in order to weave it as a tied weave) but I really like the image – it’s obviously a bird [...]

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Butterfly samples, and sample notebooks

By Tien Chiu | Published: September 26, 2010

I started sampling for the butterfly shawl today, trying out two background wefts: This is the “painted lady” butterfly, set on the diagonal. I originally used a dark olive cashmere weft, thinking that the dullness of the color and the matte surface of the cashmere would set the butterflies off nicely.  But it turned out [...]

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…and a touch of glitz

By Tien Chiu | Published: September 5, 2010

I liked the peacock feather from yesterday, but it seemed a little drab.  After all, peacocks are brilliantly colored, are they not?  So I got out one of the pirns of fine gold thread left over from the wedding-coat fabric, and wove two more feathers.  And here, in full, is the evolution of the peacock [...]

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Woven peacock feathers, 3rd sample

By Tien Chiu | Published: September 3, 2010

Finished weaving up the sample this morning: The top row of peacock feathers is the previous design, the bottom row is the new design. Changes: Eliminated the areas of blended black and green around the outer edges of the feather Replaced the dark green weft with a bright emerald green weft Lengthened the shaft of [...]

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Statistics

By Tien Chiu | Published: September 3, 2010

Alice’s comment (on her blog) that she had recently reached her 1,000th blog post got me curious about mine.  So I looked in my Dashboard, and discovered that I had just passed 1,500!  But then, I have been blogging nearly eight years, since October 8, 2002.  On that fateful day, I left home and started [...]

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