After work today (which, since I work half-time means starting at lunch) my apprentice and I went yarn shopping, looking for something in wool to use for the northern lights band for the Norrskensbard cloak I want to make (since the cloak will be wool, we wanted wool tablet weaving, too). There are no local stores selling weaving yarn, so our only ( Read more... )

This morning was too rainy for earth cellar work, so we took the opportunity to warp the loom we made last night. Of course it has been years since I had access to in inkel loom to warp, and the one and only time I saw a demo of how to do the continuous warp method would have been somewhere in the late 1980's or early 1990's, so, of course, we ( Read more... )

I think I have mentioned that I am the person running the Norrskensfest event in November. I decided early on that I wanted to run it much like Mist Bardic is run--with the feast during the day. Then, after so enjoying all of the singing at the Umamedeltids event earlier this month, I decided why not go all out and run a Bardic competition as ( Read more... )

One of my friends, who runs the European Textile forum at which I had so much fun in 2009 and 2010, is currently looking for weavers to help her get information about how/what types of yarn they are using you can access the survey here. If you weave, or know someone who does, please go fill it out (or send them). It is all in the name of science...

One of the things which has been lurking on the bottom of my to-do list for quite a while now is to go through the literature to find the mentions of talc and see how the natural rocks compare with my experiments. Given how many other work-related tasks I've had to do, it has been put off in favor of more urgent tasks. However, it is something ( Read more... )