At 09:45 PM 10/18/2009, you wrote:
Cj,
Pattern and Loom is not at handweaving.net.
That is found on the Danish site given yesterday by Ron and other posters.
Try that link to Donald B. Wagner's Danish site.
Thank you most kindly! I missed it, apparently.
Cj. Aberte @ Melbourne
to occupy his time? 3 Hrs! How about he gets a
spindle?? ROFL
Cj. Aberte
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At 08:53 AM 7/22/2007, you wrote:
Has anyone used handspun pure angora as warp or weft? I have a lot
of fiber left from when we raised angoras, and would like to try
weaving something with it, preferably singles for warp and weft, but
am a little leery unless I hear someone else has :)
I
At 01:55 PM 4/13/2007, you wrote:
What is a color gamp?
A gamp is basically a sampler or a study example.
You usually see color gamps which use bands of color (warp and weft
alternating) to show interactions of color with other colors or
values - or pattern gamps (using bands of various
://www.santacruzhandweavers.org/anneblinks/sprang.html
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to mark it or any further mental
gymnastics... The larger the stash, the more you get to appreciate
not having to remember (or mark or keep an inventory, etc, etc.).
Well.. maybe it's the older I get the more I appreciate it ggg...
Happy fibering!
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terrible experiences at preparation. I think I must
have used gallons of Dawn (not to even begin talking about water)
that year... *sigh* Sometimes you just end up giving up...
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single clue...
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.. There are plenty of gorgeous sculptural
items that are regularly produced that you can see in the
professional journals. Mine just don't do anything for me...
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and use 2 to one for an c. 30%
blend, etc, etc..
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powered vs. hand wound. Stick the pirn on the winder and step on the
peddle and it does the job - that's luxury! Nearly as good as having your
own weaving elf.
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. The picture will
kind of hide the yarn guides.
Have a good holiday and a fine trip! Be careful out amongst the world and
come home to our online fiber family in good health!
Cj.
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(but only a skein) during
measurement.
Heck, for that matter and solid wheel (drum, etc.) that you attach a
round counter to (I've got directions for doing this on a loom using a
pirated calculator somewhere) will do the same thing...
Y'all have a good holiday!
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plain lovely.
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it to you two to make the hard decisions.
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band, then or
course the first paragraph above doesn't apply to your wheel.
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rich black).
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elasticity no matter what you do,
while merino is definitely drapey. I suppose it's nearly impossible to know
just what wools are used in any given commercial blend, but if it is merino
(and I'm seeing more merino labels the last couple of years than ever before
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quite a bit of time with color
selection and pattern which is very important in something that can easily
become very busy if not handled well. You could certainly take any of the
various patterns and translate them into samples quite easily!
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(ie. not suitable for garments, or anything that you must have some
idea of what's going to be covered...).
Ok... anybody else think of any other situations?
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If a prince wear a Bohemian glass stone
over twisted yarns (with the option of
either plied or singles that would work) then you've got the above
instances that I can drag out of memory.
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If a prince wear a Bohemian glass stone on his finger
in spinning versus your opposite twist in plying is out of
balance (ie. too much twist in the ply direction) when I *think* perhaps
you mean that your twist is simply a bit greater (in both directions) but
in balance?
Cj.
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- Original Message -
From: MLuskin
To: Fibernet
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 4:58 PM
Subject: Yarn quantity for lace knitting
Last year I spun exactly one ounce of merino and hemp
fiber and dyed it with Koolaid. Since I had so
little, I decided to make a lace scarf.
Britton, Christiane wrote:
Hello all,
Does anyone know of any fiber events that will be happening in the next few
months on the East Coast?
The only thing I'm aware of in the fall season is the alpaca festival in
NC in Nov/?/Oct/?. Somebody else will have to jog my memory further than
I have a gorgeous knit lace pattern that came to me from Spain. I
desperately need someone with moderate or better knitting skills to
translate the symbols from the charts and a brief header for the
pattern. You must be conversant with the abbreviations in Spanish for
the various terms
Cathy de Seton wrote:
Cj,
I remembered a website but of course not in my black book or
bookmarkshave found it with good old Google. Hope it helps you
http://www.wiseneedle.com/tools.asp
Wow... great site. Thanks *loads*. Now if my brain were on something
other than frozen I guess
jennie watkins wrote:
Hello, I have my first 4 Shetland fleeces and am trying to decide what to do
with one in particular. This is a lambs fleece and has 3 different
colors brown at the tips, fawn mid lock and grey at cut end. If I have
it washed and carded by local processor will I
BJ Heeke wrote:
COE is for Certificate of Excellence. Like getting a Master's I guess. It is
given by the Handweaver's Guild of America after some really hard work!
It's not simply like, if you've done your Masters in art depts. it's
*extremely* simliar except on a more curtailed basis
Robin Murphy wrote:
Hi all -
I have some balls of roving that are far too dirty to work with. I pulled
off 2 strips - about 2 feet each - and washed them, and the water was very
dirty. Would it be possible to wash this while still wound into balls?
I've done it a number of times, but I
June Oshiro wrote:
Hi,
I just had a hellish experience last night plying silk. When I want to
clear off a bobbin, I'll just take whatever is on there and make an Andean
plying bracelet. Depending on the amount of twist in the single, it turns
into either a 2 ply or 4 ply cabled yarn.
Cj. Aberte
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I haven't posted here for s long. Seems scary almost.
I've been spinning for several years and feel
causes the 'collapse'
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searsucker stripes happen (interesting if you're into that
sort of thing and actually don't mind getting it accidentally)with
difference in elasticity in adjacent warp stripes.
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At 09:58 PM 9/12/01 -0400, you wrote:
Anyone know how I can get in direct contact with Mr. Lendrum?
They have a site online (sorry I lost all my bookmarks in a cpu upgrade) do
a search for Lendrum Spinning Wheels at yahoo.com (or possibly any other
search engine).
Cj. Aberte
Melbourne
At 07:10 PM 6/26/01 EDT, you wrote:
any thoughts?? Comments
:) Smile sweetly and do your own thing ;) . It it's true (investigate,
there may be better ways to accomplish the same feat...) you can surely
figure it out.
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. Once you get a new one
turned, find someone with a reproducing lathe and have them turn the base
(to fit onto the tapered spindle) then run some thread or fine twine around
the base to prevent it coming back off and jam the end under the wood.
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coming through all the time).
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it for the growers).
You're also supposed to be able to do it on the supermerino PG carder drum
(I didn't care for the results but figure there *must* be a trick to that
one.). I figure I just haven't got it yet LOL.
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, warm and dry fleeces an hour or so before spinning. It
also helps with static.
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