Book Review Part Two

The next two books I am going to tell you about are ones that I have borrowed. The title of the first on is "Weaver's Delight". It is just that, a delight for the eyes and my little brain cells. There are examples of double-face weave, twill, Drall (I know that isn't spelled right-I don't know where that "a" is on this computer-sorry), opphamta (again I need to find that "a")... tapestry, and more! This book alone could be worth studying for a couple of years or three. Very well written.

This next book "Swedish Swatches -yellow, blue, red, and green series in color photos" got me thinking about ordering some yarns. I want to make the curtain fabric, the drapery fabric, the evening jacket fabric. Doubleweave and twill! Rep weave and twill! Basket weave with warp floats! Broken twill in two blocks! The list goes on and on. Not a lot of mumbo-jumbo just right to the drafts and color photos.... An excellent book if you are a cookbook weaver, but enough information to follow along but add your own colors and yarns.

Book Review Part One

While being away from my shuttles and looms, I have had the pleasure of getting to read and devour some excellent weaving books. In the next few days I will give my humble opinion of some I have found interesting if not down right exciting. Some are mine and some I have been allowed to borrow. You may or may not have some of these books. The good thing about belonging to guilds is that most have a library of weaving books to borrow. I hope you have or can borrow some of these books.

Let me first talk about a 1985 swatch book by Virginia West. The very first sentence in the introduction truly touches my heart. "I like to think of a fabric as a painting, conceived through artistic vision, lively with depths of tonality and texture, the warp and weft the rush strokes across the surface, the yarns themselves the architectonic element that build the composition." As a young person, I always wanted to be an artist. But not being able to 'draw' put the skids to that idea. Weaving lets the artist in me come out.

This swatch book speaks to my creative side. What if I did this or how about.........

This swatch example is called "Scallop". She gives the drawn down along with fibers to use and sett. And of course a real sample to touch!

Alive and Well

Well, I might be alive and well, but still under the weather. Here is a photo to keep those fiber juices flowing!

My looms sit silent and whine as much as me as I pass them by. Hopefully soon I will be able to "sling" that shuttle.

Just for review, why not check out my post on repair heddles or see my woven shibori experiments. Thanks for sticking with me while I am under the weather. When life hands you lemons, make lemon colored napkins.!

Dear Fellow Fiber Peoples

Sorry, but I am away from my looms. But I continue to read and study weaving and most things fiber. I was in one waiting room and tried real hard to stay off the floor. The carpet was very interesting.

I hope to be back to share my explorations in weaving soon.

Still no weaving today

Still a long way from the loom room. But have a few books to keep those weaving brain cells working.
"Versatile Bronson" by Dorothy Burton, Monograph Five.  This looks like I will be reading on this a few days.

Another Day of Loom lonelyniss

Eye candy!

No weaving Today

I am out of town for a few days.
My best friend is keeping watch.