I mentioned last week my trouble with keeping straight which direction I was heading on the foot treadles. Sure, it’s easy when you’re on treadle 1 or treadle 5, because there’s only one direction to go from each of those, but if you’re on treadle 3, it’s anyone’s guess. Enter the beads. The teacher attached […]
Saying “I’m weaving” always makes me expect to hear “where you going?”. But today, I actually did weave. And I have pictures to prove it. After I finished threading my heddles, it was time to put the loom back together and add a reed, through which all the heddled threads would also need to be […]
I’m assuming it was snow that kept the teacher away today, but luckily we had the teacher’s regular helper and quite a few other students with experience to keep us newbies moving along. In fact, I feel like I accomplished more today than on previous days since it was pretty much nose-to-the-grindstone and very little […]
