solutions

A sudden fracture and a temporary fix

When two separate plans collide.

So plain weave is all very well, but… Having finally tried out a peg plan for gradually exchanging layers, I really wanted to change it from plain weave to a twill. This, of course, takes twice as many lags and … Read More

A brief pitstop as I hurtle towards Open Studios.

Well, that’s a rubbish start to the day. Found out this morning — when the WordPress app wouldn’t let me in to see a new comment — that my website had been hacked. The last thing I did yesterday was … Read More

A personal list of the things I take into account when improvising weaving tools

A long journey for the latest warp and some new tricks learned

In which broken things are mended and future glitches are (we hope) averted by much rearrangement.

No surprise that this is slow going! However, my test piece was a help in trouble-shooting several things — the tie-up, for one, and the tension on the fine gold thread for another. I wasn’t sure I could knot the … Read More

Apologies to anyone whose expectations have been excited by my earlier tweets: please note that the total number of holes made in the loom is only four! So. The Megado is a beautiful loom. Everything about it is lovely as well … Read More