tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79316579831090570262024-02-26T07:44:56.895+01:00Kerstin's extrasKerstin på Spinnhusethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01417606744435651656noreply@blogger.comBlogger345125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931657983109057026.post-7964265086799095402019-10-05T12:29:00.000+02:002019-10-05T12:29:30.471+02:00A fantastic mangleOn Ravelry I found a link to an article on a really fantastic Very Big mangle.<br />
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To ensure I don't lose the link, I decided to post it here, too: <a href="https://craftsmanship.net/ancient-mangle-santarcangelo-di-romagna/" target="_blank">https://craftsmanship.net/ancient-mangle-santarcangelo-di-romagna/</a>.<br />
(there is a video, too)Kerstin på Spinnhusethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01417606744435651656noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931657983109057026.post-53498772174663485072017-11-29T21:51:00.000+01:002017-11-29T21:51:20.509+01:00goose eye combined w plain weave and basket weave?Can "goose-eye" be combined w other structures? <br />
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Well, not all of them... at least not if using 4 shafts.Kerstin på Spinnhusethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01417606744435651656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931657983109057026.post-24136458828688991762017-06-10T17:52:00.000+02:002017-06-11T00:14:47.366+02:00More about making sure that heddles can’t fall off the end of the shafts<br />
As it seems that the article on <a href="http://bergdalaspinnhus.com/tricks/leaseeng.html" target="_blank">"how to secure lease sticks"</a> on my web page is not very clear, here are some more pictures and some more words.<br />
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First, it seems that the title of the page is making confusion: why is it about lease sticks? (and – if the method is for lease sticks, then, surely, it isn’t good for the use on shafts, is it?)<br />
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So. Starting with the lease sticks.<br />
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Why would one want another method than tying them together, so that the pair is "fixed together"? <br />
I can see several reasons: for a very dense and/or sticky warp (warp rep with, say, 36 ends of cotton 16/2 per cm, approx. 140 ends per inch, is one example – another can be a brushed mohair for warp, can get sticky even at open setts) – for the dense or sticky warp it will be so very much easier to move the lease sticks separately.<br />
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Another reason can be that moving a folding loom about in its folded state: <a href="http://oddweavings.blogspot.se/2012/03/oooops-i-forgot.html" target="_blank">my folding looms</a> need the warp tension to be slackened for folding, which means the lease sticks can slip around. Then this can happen:<br />
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Granted, it is quite possible to get the warp back onto the sticks, but it takes more fiddling (at least for me) – and so I use this method ’cos I find it faster and easier.<br />
This is what it looks om my big loom (the blue stripe was an afterthought, and narrow enough not to need a lease for the sample I’m making):<br />
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Back to the folding loom (used mainly for demos): it will never, ever get folded without security strings on the shafts bars. <br />
(One of my students thought that "sissy", folded the loom and carried it away. The lower bars promptly fell out, because she had not tied the treadles yet. It took hours to get them back, with the correct heddles on the correct lower shaft bar, in the correct order. She added security strings...)<br />
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So this is how it looks:<br />
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I always put the "handle" for opening (the knot with its tails) on the left side, because I thread from right to left – if I need to add (or take off) heddles while/after threading, this will always be done on the left side.<br />
(Fow to make this style of security string, pls refer to the web page, linked above)<br />
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But, some of you say, why not just connect the upper shaft bar with the lower shaft bar? <br />
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AVL does this, by sticking a long metal rod from top to bottom<br />
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So what will happen if you just tie them together with a piece of string? (The black string may be hard to see, but click the pics to biggify - it should be easier to see) <br />
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OK, it will not happen every time, but it sure <b>can</b> happen, especially if you are using the whole width of the loom.<br />
The heddles will not fall to the floor, it will be easy to know which shaft they belong to, that is true. However, should this happen to the outer heddles, there will not be any shed at the selvages... <b>and</b> it would require fiddling to get the heddles back. <br />
Again: I find it so much easier to secure the heddles in a way that ensures me that they stay in their place.<br />
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Yes, I know: there are no safety strings on this loom for the moment. Next time I’m going to weave wide I will put them on... or, maybe, next time I get annoyed at having to get the fallen-to-the-floor unused heddle back on. Nobody is perfect...)<br />
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Edit - adding:<br />
It did not occur to me when writing, but: the top-to-bottom connector string - how to handle that when one wants to add/subtract heddles? This possible connxion can, as can the other "knotted strings", be tied with an easily undone knot (bow?). Otherwise it will also hinder the heddle handling...<br />
Kerstin på Spinnhusethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01417606744435651656noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931657983109057026.post-87484684217991145372017-02-20T19:01:00.001+01:002017-02-20T19:01:24.496+01:00"Alternative news" from SwedenMy very busy half-year is (hopefully) soon coming to an end: in October my mother (97) moved to a so called service apartment.<br />
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"Down-sizing", anyone? <br />
I have been carting things here and there, to her new place and to me (and some to second-hand and the dump, too). But now I can see the end of all this – her old apartment is going on the market in a couple of weeks. (After I have taken one last load down here... - faamous lsat words?)<br />
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Last week I came home with a well-travelled suitcase, containing a jacket, an <a href="http://oddweavings.blogspot.se/2011/03/but-how-did.html">experimental moebius scarf</a> (made by me) and some small yardage pieces (woven by her) – also some glass pieces for <a href="http://bergdala-glastekniska-museum.se/eng-index.html" target="_blank">our growing museum</a>, and some for re-homing.<br />
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Also, plans start to emerge for the Event of the Year: <a href="http://www.svenskavav.com/" target="_blank">VÄV2017</a>, this time at a place near me. <br />
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Oh yes – <b>what happened in Bergdala, Sweden last Friday</b>: grey/rainy weather with icy roads, the snowdrops got visible again after the rain, the assiettes got re-homed and the service workshop ordered a new part for my new computer. Even if the wind sometimes was hard, there were no earth-shaking events (but the aspen across the lane still looks like it will fall with the smallest gust of wind). <br />
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So there! <br />
Kerstin på Spinnhusethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01417606744435651656noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931657983109057026.post-58444315633114357622016-12-02T17:26:00.000+01:002016-12-02T17:26:43.187+01:00Happy birthday!Today the world's oldest Freedom of the Press Regulation is 250 years old.<br />
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This post ought to be labeled as "essentials", but will instead get the label "curiosities".<br />
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To make some sort of textile connexion, here are some text messages:<br />
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Jean's comment on the differences on right and left (or top and bottom) made me do what I have thought to do for a long time: can the differences be avoided?<br />
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So I started with my "normal", looking at both sides:<br />
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Seeing that both sides are the same (one side clean, the other jagged) made me suspect that it can't be "fixed", as long as one is interested in a reversible result.<br />
By adding (or subtracting) two ends at the jagged side, one can get clean cuts at both sides.<br />
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... but the back will then get both sides jagged:<br />
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Personal conclusion: until I feel the urge to take the exchanging layers to twill, I will continue to weave two picks per layer, and live with the un-equal sides because of the reversibility of the result. <br />
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Others may have other ideas...<br />
Kerstin på Spinnhusethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01417606744435651656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931657983109057026.post-6004384882894980902016-09-13T09:16:00.000+02:002016-09-13T09:23:39.989+02:00Triple layers - variation for easier weaving<br />
Yesterday I stopped before doing what I always do: rearranging the treadling for easiest actual weaving:<br />
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Unless I have very fat yarns in my double (in this case triple) cloth, I try to arrange the treadling so that I can do two picks per shuttle (layer). <br />
It is so much faster to do two picks before having to change shuttles... <br />
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(Yes, it shows in the end product:<br />
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These are two not quite focussed pictures of <a href="http://bergdalaspinnhus.com/shawl3eng.html" target="_blank">double-layer shawls</a>. <br />
They are approximately 2 x life size, and has the ends one-by-one and the picks two-by-two. <br />
The warps are a combination of cottons, 16/2, 20/2, 22/2 and maybe a few 30/2. <br />
The wefts are of course only one quality per shuttle, but I don't remember which grist. The sett was probably somewhere about 10 ends/cm (25 epi).<br />
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And no, I haven't tried it for three layers.)<br />
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So: here is what I would do before sitting down to actually weave.<br />
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First: use the existing tieup, but rearrange the colour sequence.<br />
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Next: rearrange the new treadling to straight:<br />
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As I weave from bottom to top, and have an overhead beater, this is the treadling I would use, namely start in the bottom layer, working up to the top layer, as seen in the widest section of the warp.<br />
(Yes, on the loom there will be "gaps" where the layers change. I have never seen these gaps after wet finishing - see pictures above.) <br />
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Hm.<br />
Remembering one of my doodlings from yesterday (which did not reach publication) - another way of making more-than-two-different narrow stripes - a shift in the warp sequence can accomplish that:<br />
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Kerstin på Spinnhusethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01417606744435651656noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931657983109057026.post-67946613365978085022016-09-12T12:29:00.000+02:002016-09-12T12:29:17.841+02:00A challenge? - I always love a challenge...<br />
So, the question was: how to make a three-layer weave, with warp-wise layer changes? <br />
(and preferably on 12 shafts "only")<br />
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This is how I approached the problem:<br />
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(To all Swedish readers (and Ellen: hi, Ellen!): note that all tieups are for rising shed. This means that the layers/colours will be reversed if the tieup is used "as is" for a CM.)<br />
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Started with a three-layer (three independent layers) weave - for plainweave layers, that takes six shafts. <br />
For instance like this:<br />
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I made the top layer turquoise, the middle layer purple, the bottom layer red-orange. The three layers do not interact at any point. (Note that the difference in nuances between warp and weft makes It easy to see that the bottom, red-orange, layer has a correct interlacement, even without using the "back view".)<br />
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Now, we wanted a lengthwise (warpwise) layer exchange. I decided the left hand side is a good place. Thus, to start the construction, assume another "block" of the same threading and colour to occur at the left side. Like so (left pic):<br />
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The same threading on a new set of shafts (= a new block), with the same colour order. We want to shift the layers, so I let them "cycle": the middle, purple, layer goes on top - the bottom, red, goes in the middle and the top, turquoise, layer has to go to the bottom.<br />
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OK, I hear you: how do I do this? <br />
I am using Fiberworks PCW (silver, if that matters). <br />
By clicking in the drawdown, I can get ends/picks to the top (for instance). <br />
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Middle pic above: all purple threads, both warp ends and picks, are taken to the top. <br />
Next is to fix the interlacement: right-hand pic above. Note that the interlacement should be a continuation of the purple plainweave in the right-hand (first) three-layer block.<br />
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Now to fix the middle layer, the red-orange one. Click all ends and picks so that they are under the purple layer, but on top of the turquoise (left picture below). Fix the interlacement - easy because of the difference between the red and the orange - right-hand picture below.<br />
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For the bottom (turquoise) layer, it is easier to use "back view". <br />
As it happens, all turquoise threads are already at the bottom... fix the interlacement, go back to "front" view again:<br />
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Unfortunately, all the 12 shafts are now used. <br />
As we want another stripe, we add another block (6 shafts) - now the total is 18.<br />
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The same procedure again: make the red-orange layer top, the turquoise will be in the middle and the purple layer will go to the bottom layer:<br />
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In the hopes that I had missed something important, I let the software analyse my result - alas, I had not: it really takes 18 shafts to do this.<br />
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But...<br />
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What if: let one of the layers stay in the same position for two stripes: this will reduce the goal to two blocks. With the three "open" layers on the right-hand side of different widths, and several narrow-ish stripes on the left-hand side... voilà, only 12 shafts. An alternative?<br />
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(As I, personally, prefer straight threadings whenever possible, I rearranged it for this final picture, showing both front and back:<br />
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(Remember: click pictures to enlargen)<br />
Kerstin på Spinnhusethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01417606744435651656noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931657983109057026.post-24265699030079852962016-09-07T17:19:00.000+02:002016-09-07T17:19:07.389+02:00Dräll pulleys and opposite tie-ups, again<br />
So <b><i>is</i></b> it possible to use dräll pulleys for other than two-block "opposite" weaves?<br />
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To refresh your memory, here is one illustration from my <a href="http://bergdalaspinnhus.com/artiklar/cb-looms2-e.html" target="_blank">web page on dräll pulleys</a>, with 6 shafts mounted:<br />
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The question came up in another context, and I tried to construct some examples.<br />
Starting with a 2/2 twill - this is one "normal" way to thread and tie it up:<br />
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As can be seen, that tieup will not work. Starting from the left, the first column will work. The second will not, as shafts 1 and 4 both go up (in the Swe notation), while shafts 2 and 3 both go down). Third column is "opposite", fourth is not.<br />
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So what can be done? We need to do something to both column 2 and 4, trying to get them "opposite". One way is this:<br />
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Next try, an 8-shaft even tieup (by "even" I mean that all sheds have half of the shafts up, half down, in various combinations - see a discussion on "even" weaves <a href="http://oddweavings.blogspot.se/2014/03/looking-at-both-sides.html" target=_blank">here</a>) <br />
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Started with the leftmost column - and got the fourth correct as a bonus.<br />
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However much I tried, I could not fix more than 4 columns/treadles.<br />
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Maybe I could modify the pattern some, and still like the result? So I marked all the ties that conformed with the rule:<br />
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Started to take out/put in ties in the possible positions... this was the best result I could come up with:<br />
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Would I weave this? No, but then, I am on a countermarche...<br />
Compare it to my starting point:<br />
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I tried various other even tieups with much the same results, and in the end I decided that there is a good reason the pulleys are called "dräll" pulleys: they are excellent for two-block "opposite" structures! For all the others, there are countermarche looms... <br />
Kerstin på Spinnhusethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01417606744435651656noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931657983109057026.post-10121921006993033012016-07-05T19:08:00.000+02:002016-07-05T19:15:45.352+02:00Busy, but (still) not weavingWhat with going up and down to Town (aka Stockholm) a lot, and getting the Glass museum ready for the tourist season, I haven't had much time for textiles.<br />
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(but the <a href="http://bergdala-glastekniska-museum.se/eng-index.html" target="_blank">Glass museum site</a> is now "on par" - ie all pages exist in both Swedish and English - and there is a g**le translate option both on the website and on the <a href="http://bergdala-museum.blogspot.se/" target="_blank">blog</a> - feel free to visit!)<br />
(EDIT: I just checked the translation of today's blog post... ACKKK! g**le translate isn't very helpful when it comes to oddities... is there a way I can convince you that it IS intelligible in Swe?!?)<br />
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However, this morning I found this:<br />
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which shows that that (the not-weaving) is not necessarily a problem...<br />
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(a few comments:<br />
- "damastduk"? ok, so it says "paper" in a sort-of-backwards way, but... <b>How</b> will non-textile-y ppl understand what a damask (table)cloth can be, in some years time?<br />
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- "damast"? the pattern (not visible in the picture) shows a typical 4-block (possibly only 2-block... didn't open the package) true dräll* - for Swe weavers, damask is a considerably more complex pattern, usually achieved with the help of a drawloom...)<br />
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* "<a href="http://oddweavings.blogspot.se/2014/04/about-drall-and-other-patterns.html">about dräll and other patterns</a>" <br />
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Kerstin på Spinnhusethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01417606744435651656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931657983109057026.post-13123719054004507732016-05-21T12:07:00.000+02:002016-05-21T12:07:33.901+02:00All you need to know about counterbalance looms?<br />
As it is continually said that it is "impossible" to weave "unbalanced" sheds on counterbalance looms, I decided to make an illustrated guide to why it is actually perfectly do-able...<br />
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So, now there are two new pages on my website - one about how an ordinary Swe style <a href="http://bergdalaspinnhus.com/artiklar/cb-looms1-e.html">4-shaft CB loom with horses</a> works, and another one about<a href="http://bergdalaspinnhus.com/artiklar/cb-looms2-e.html"> how dräll pulleys</a> work, and what they can be used for. <br />
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This is a top of my mother's:<br />
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She made it ages (20? 30?) years ago, from a remnant. Assumed cotton, but who knows, these days? It has a lovely hand.<br />
I have always liked it, and always thought, carelessly, that it must be some kind of crackle-ish structure (although, who would have thought industry would make crackle-ish fabric for yardage?).<br />
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So, getting one step nearer:<br />
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Hm. Compare front and back ('cos this fabric has distinctly different faces).<br />
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Hm. Face side again:<br />
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It certainly looks like plain weave, with a pattern of crammed-and-spaced warps... except is does have blocks of some sort?<br />
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Hm. Double hm. We can (sort of) see that the warp colours appear to change when the (weft) blocks change. <br />
Or, that's what I think - 'cept I can't understand <b>how</b>, as the whole shebang still looks like plain weave... and the back doesn't really show any weft "blocks"?<br />
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The fabric can have been rotated, of course: white warp, coloured weft. <br />
How many colours in the weft, then? (How many wefts can a modern loom handle? And it also has to handle the crammed-and-spaced effect.) And why weave something so complicated, when a multi-coloured warp and constant # of picks per cm would be so much easier? - could it be because this particular mill just had got this very ultra-modern loom, capable of handling a gazillion of wefts and varying the beating-up force - a kind of "because I could"-result?<br />
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Against the light (and now all pics start to be blurry... try holding a piece of almost see-through fabric I one hand, while trying to get your camera to focus with the other hand, and you'll see what I mean. First pic to illustrate my point... :-)<br />
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And in the last picture it looks like the cramming shifts... regardless of if in the warp or weft direction, HOW??? (click pics to biggify)<br />
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Well.<br />
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I still think it looks like plain weave, crammed-and-spaced, except it appears impossible to achieve the warp-stripe-colour-changes (that are, I think, essential to the overall colour block idea) with such a simple structure...<br />
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The warp colour-"changes" might be some colour-and-weave thing, with the warp being end-by-end... except that to make the "other" colour get to the surface - wouldn't that need a more complex structure?<br />
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Insights?<br />
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EDIT: for those guessing at some kind of leno - no, I thought about that. Unfortunately the photos aren't sharp 'nuf to blow up more - .Kerstin på Spinnhusethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01417606744435651656noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931657983109057026.post-12113843541031568442016-04-09T08:36:00.000+02:002016-04-09T08:36:44.402+02:00Announcing:my new, ok <i>a</i> new, website, of which I happen to be responsible: <a href="http://bergdala-glastekniska-museum.se/eng-index.html" target="_blank">Bergdala glastekniska museum</a>.<br />
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Most pages are still in Swedish only, but some have been translated. The link takes you to the start page in English - for Swedish, click the "på svenska" in the upper part of the navigation column.<br />
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As my glass English is not the best (I have been using <a href="http://www.idverre.net/eurodico/rech_alpha.php?lg=Sw&let=A" target="_blank">this page</a> a lot, but what do I know...?!?), I hope you can help me out... all and any thoughts and comments are welcome!<br />
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Due to <a href="http://bergdala.blogspot.se/2016/04/sagan-om-giraffen-del-1.html" target="_blank">other concentration-consuming activities</a>, I totally forgot about "April spools day" this year. <br />
So, a bit late, a picture to combine spools and glass:<br />
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This is a plate used for pantographing a pattern onto several (in our case 24) glasses at the same time, making them ready for acid etching.<br />
(On the off chance: should anybody "out there" recognize the pattern, I would very much like to know "all": name, designer, time, picture(s)...) Kerstin på Spinnhusethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01417606744435651656noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931657983109057026.post-58005316488644633652016-03-30T16:50:00.000+02:002016-03-30T16:50:02.588+02:00How can I live without floating selvedges?was a question on a forum last week.<br />
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Easily, is the fastest answer. I had been weaving for 20+ years before I even <i>heard</i> about such animals... (and I confess: have not tried FS, not even once, since I heard about them. And, s<b></b>ince it is confession time: once in a while I have been known to make an extra turn around the outer end - but I had done that for the 20+ years of weaving before I heard about FS, so I don't know if that counts)<br />
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So, how?<br />
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Here are some answers:<br />
1. see what happens. IF an end doesn't get caught, ignore it.<br />
2. IF an end doesn't get caught, and it annoys me (probably not, but anyway) - try starting the weft from the other side. <br />
3. think about them before weaving (see below) <br />
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The thinking gets easier with written-out structure (binding) diagrams. <br />
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Like this: let us assume a 2/2 twill, thus 4 shafts. There are four possible permutations for the tie-up(s). Likewise, there are two possible ways (directions) for threading (/// or \\\). For treadlings there are, again, four possibilities: /// and \\\, but also if we treadle from the top down ("American way") or from the bottom up ("Swedish way").<br />
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Here goes: first diagram. The colours in the wefts are put there to distinguish between right-to-left and left-to-right (in reality they are the same colour, as this is a single-shuttle weave)<br />
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Going clockwise from upper right: treadling from top to bottom, from right to left (means the red wefts go from right to left): both outer ends get caught. Treadling from bottom to top (means the yellow wefts go from right to left): both outer ends get caught.<br />
However: if one shifts the shuttling direction, both outer ends become un-bound.<br />
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Next quadrant (bottom right): exactly the same applies - shuttling from right to left both outer ends get caught. If switching shuttling direction, both outer ends get not-caught.<br />
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The two left-hand quadrants work the opposite: if shuttling from right to left, both outer ends get un-caught - reversing the shuttling direction lets the outer ends get caught.<br />
(As I always want to start from the right, I crossed out the two left-hand quadrants)<br />
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Diagram 2 - the tie-up is shifted one step up. <br />
As I always want to start from the right, I crossed out the two right-hand quadrants because the outer ends will be un-caught.<br />
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Diagram 3 - the tie-up shifted yet one step up.<br />
As I always want to start from the right... the two left-hand quadrants are crossed out.<br />
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Diagram 4 - the last permutation in the tie-up.<br />
As I always (etc)... the two right-hand quadrants are crossed out.<br />
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Of course, all of the crossed-out quadrants can be fixed by either:<br />
- starting the shuttling from left to right<br />
- OR (still shuttling my fave direction) by adding or subtracting one end each side.<br />
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OK, I hear you: BUT what about a more complicated binding (structure)?<br />
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This is a random structure that I found on handweaving.net:<br />
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As I always prefer to start from the right, AND (being Swedish) read the treadling from the bottom up: here the turquoise picks go from right to left.<br />
With this threading, tie-up and treadlings there will be some un-caught outer ends. If I haven't made a mistake (or two...) the longest selvedge float will be seven picks.<br />
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Is seven picks too much? <br />
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Well - for a, say, rug (or other coarse weave): yes, definitely. <br />
But for something woven at some 30-40-50 ends/picks per inch? Being metric, I don't much care for "inching", but a free end at the selvedge being 1/2 to 3/4 of a centimetre is nothing much to me.<br />
(It, of course, also depends on the end use of the cloth: if it is to be cut and sewn, the selvedges do not matter at all (coarse cloth or not).)<br />
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So, adding to the three "answers" above:<br />
1. see what happens. IF an end doesn't get caught, ignore it.<br />
2. IF an end doesn't get caught, and it annoys me (probably not, but anyway) - try starting the weft from the other side. <br />
3. think about them before weaving (see above) <br />
4. what is the fabric meant to be used for? IF for cutting and sewing, then selvedges usually are of no importance<br />
5. what are the actual lengths of the "free" selvedge threads? Is it likely to catch? <br />
6. (if I am hand-throwing: maybe catch the selvedge "manually" now and again - at the "points" of the top treadling)<br />
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This, my friends, is how I live without floating selvedges!<br />
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(Re point treadlings, see <a href="http://oddweavings.blogspot.se/2011/08/another-solution-en-annan-losning.html" target="_blank">this post</a> , which mainly is about making a "clean cut" when changing treadling direction.) <br />
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Kerstin på Spinnhusethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01417606744435651656noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931657983109057026.post-70445208460095501102015-12-07T12:39:00.000+01:002015-12-07T12:39:06.531+01:00Tablecloth for x-mas?It has been a long time - I have tried to get this blog going again, but haven't had anything interesting to share... because I have buried myself in something entirely different (but maybe equally nerdy), namely how industrial glass etching was done at the turn of the last century. (Everything about that adventure at <a href="http://bergdala-museum.blogspot.com" target="_blank">another blog</a>, which is only in Swedish. And, because of many specialized words, I don't dare put a translator on it...)<br />
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Anyway. Remember <a href="http://oddweavings.blogspot.se/2012/05/inspi-variations.html" target="_blank">this</a>? I visited the same place today, and saw a tablecloth:<br />
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I took some pictures, which unfortunately did not come out quite focussed. (Have a new camera, too - it likes to do things on its own, and I haven't been able to tame it yet.)<br />
Here is one not too blurry closeup of the actual cloth (warp top-to-bottom):<br />
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Cotton in white and red, turned satin (more than 5-end, I think), and too many blocks (at least five, maybe 6).<br />
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This is not quite right, proportions are somewhat off, border very much cropped. I used a light yellow for the white weft, and an orangey red for the red weft. <br />
Here is the five-block version:<br />
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Revised to make four blocks only:<br />
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With four blocks and changing the satin to 4-end twill, it can be woven on 16 shafts. (How to do that? One way is described in an article on my website, <a href=" http://bergdalaspinnhus.com/artiklar/detaljsolvningar-e.html" target="_blank">here</a> - for Swedish, <a href="http://bergdalaspinnhus.com/artiklar/detaljsolvningar-s.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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(Of course this profile can be made into something completely different... daldräll, some lace... )<br />
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Kerstin på Spinnhusethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01417606744435651656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931657983109057026.post-36315508315858338802015-10-09T17:15:00.000+02:002015-10-09T17:15:25.606+02:00FacingsIt turned out I had beginner's luck with the first band... but now (after some picking-out, new try, more picking-out) all the bands are in place. Also, all the facings are in place. <br />
(Are they still called "facings" if they go all the way around the neck?)<br />
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(No, this is not the total "decor")Kerstin på Spinnhusethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01417606744435651656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931657983109057026.post-10870580342176308022015-10-03T18:22:00.000+02:002015-10-03T18:22:54.396+02:00Taking shape<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_MsOKhjC-cB9FOzPHuF7kqT0Dcz_M1dWtrX6IR-pLO0KkU0uYN59FCiEm1A0aum4RQO8Ow82vaq6IpA9IUGUACcmtZ38n8RiiESSv9Epc1kUQK3y3Ohm0COzbDkkqLNxUSLF6w9vTq9Y/s1600/gown-back.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_MsOKhjC-cB9FOzPHuF7kqT0Dcz_M1dWtrX6IR-pLO0KkU0uYN59FCiEm1A0aum4RQO8Ow82vaq6IpA9IUGUACcmtZ38n8RiiESSv9Epc1kUQK3y3Ohm0COzbDkkqLNxUSLF6w9vTq9Y/s320/gown-back.jpg" /></a></div>Kerstin på Spinnhusethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01417606744435651656noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931657983109057026.post-6373180814822965792015-09-21T13:56:00.000+02:002015-09-21T13:56:31.210+02:00Wheels from the same family?<br />
When first I moved down here (which is by now more than 18 years ago - how time flies!) I didn't want any more spinning wheels. I had two antiques, they are both good to spin on, and besides, I was weaving more than I was spinning.<br />
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Then we started to frequent the local auction house. I didn't actively bid on any spinning wheels, but they started to come my way all the same: "this one didn't sell, can't you take it?"<br />
At some point, I started noticing all these wheels that obviously came from the same maker/workshop - they have a distinctive shape to the screw handle, the treadle is of a shape I've not seen on any other wheel, and they have a "waist" on the table, with a little punched ornament right at the narrowest part. I started to ask around - did anybody perhaps know where they came from? (They do not have a "normal" maker's mark - the ornament could be seen as a mark, I suppose, but I have seen at least 3 different.) No answers for the longest time - .<br />
Some years later, it happens I now own two of them. The two are of very different sizes, with different ornaments, but obviously from the same workshop:<br />
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And then, quite by mistake, I found that the world-famous maker of wood floors, <a href="http://www.kahrs.com/en/ChooseLanguage/" target="_blank">Kährs in Nybro</a>, like to tell a little story: the founder started out as a maker of spinning wheels (branched out into furniture... "and the rest is history").<br />
So I contacted them, wondering if it was perhaps their wheels I had (and was seeing all around). Disappointment: they do not have an "archived" one, they have no records of the number manufactured etc etc. But they did have a photo, often used in their marketing. (The photo is the top one in <a href="http://oddweavings.blogspot.se/2015/07/help-with-comparing.html" target=_blank">this post</a>)<br />
Disappointment again - nothing at all like my waisted ladies.<br />
(The <a href="http://www.hembygd.se/madesjo-orsjo-kristvalla/" target="_blank">same museum</a> that houses the abovementioned wheel, also has a black waisted wheel with the right screw shape, ornament, maidens...) <br />
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UNTIL: the <a href="http://www.hembygd.se/nybro/byggnader/industrimuseum/" target="_blank"><i>other</i> local museum</a> in Nybro (yes, two historical societies, in a town with about 12 000 inhabitants) has opened an industrial exhibition: industry in Nybro from "then" (end of the 1700s) to now. And they have a waisted spinning wheel, ornaments, maidens... purportedly from Kährs. The museum guide, when asked, said their wheel is "the fancy model". Does he really know? - I don't know how to get further with this research, but the waisted wheels really are quite common hereabouts.<br />
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First an overview of the black lady:<br />
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Some comparisons of details:<br />
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My two and the black one have the arched double uprights (braced to the back leg); the one in Qvarnaslät (of which I don't have a good pic) has a single upright, braced to the back leg. As has this (picture ganked from a for sale ad)<br />
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All of them have the same finials, the same treadle shape... <br />
But where are they from? <b>Are</b> they, as the museum guide said, the "fancy" model from Kährs?<br />
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...and I have seen at least 4 more of this waisted model, but can't remember if they had single or double uprights. But I do remember that I have seen my "flower" ornament on other wheels.Kerstin på Spinnhusethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01417606744435651656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931657983109057026.post-27865876898926843362015-09-12T15:37:00.000+02:002015-09-12T15:37:57.880+02:00Too many hats<br />
Where has summer gone? And what have I been doing?<br />
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I have had too many hats, and only one head, that's what.<br />
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We are trying to organize a fibre-optic net locally (this is what living in the boondocks means - having to "fix" whatever we want ourselves... sometimes it is ok, sometimes less so); <br />
we (a slightly different "we") are trying to organize a small museum for glass, not exactly technology, but showing old-ish machines, such as a manual press, a pantograph and... (read more <a href="http://bergdala-museum.blogspot.se/" target="_blank">here</a>, only in Swedish); <br />
I have been working on a couple of web sites - and I have had big problems with my web access (up/downloads of files bigger than a couple of k tended to die).<br />
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I have also washed my old kilim rug. To do this I had to invent a drying rack, as this (like all rugs) get very heavy when wet. My contraption may not work for wider rugs, but here it is, anyway:<br />
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take two ladders and some string, tie them together along the long edges (short strings on top, longer at the bottom), add one or more pieces of gutter upside down:<br />
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Next will be a stint of sewing, and, perhaps, more blogging. <br />
Kerstin på Spinnhusethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01417606744435651656noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931657983109057026.post-10479488832664538152015-07-14T12:52:00.003+02:002015-07-14T12:56:57.051+02:00Help with comparing?<br />
Dear all hawk-eyes out there, can you help?<br />
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The original of this picture is very small - this is as big as it can be without losing all definition...(click to biggify):<br />
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Is it the same (model) as this (pics not too great; there was not much space):<br />
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Both have the split table; there is a brace from the wheel upright to the back of the table; the maiden turnings are at least similar, as are the spokes. The treadle shape is not very distinctive, but they do look similar. Or?<br />
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- This is one example of an adjustable front maiden: an oblong hole, and a (missing) nut under the MOA cross-piece. To me this suggests there were two flyers of different size delivered from the beginning.<br />
Kerstin på Spinnhusethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01417606744435651656noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931657983109057026.post-20649211657606421292015-05-18T11:52:00.000+02:002015-05-18T11:52:00.570+02:00Deconstruction<br />
This is a very old lampshade, it must be at least 30 years old. The construction of the shade itself is very easy: because of the pattern of this fabric, it was made as a cylinder with a channel for a drawstring at each end. The cylinder is slightly bigger than the wire construction, and sewed with attention to the pattern.<br />
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The fabric was bought. <br />
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The warp is a thin cotton. I think the warp yarn is the same all over, but it is hard to tell. The weft is the same, except for the closer bands: that yarn might be a thin singles linen. <br />
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Here is the drawdown:<br />
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I gave the presumed linen a different colour, to make reading the construction easier. (The detail picture does obviously not contain a whole repeat - fill it in yourselves)<br />
The crammed warp stripes has 24 ends each; for more open parts I did not even try to count the number... <br />
Also, I did not check the sett, but my guess is that the crammed stripes has double the number of ends per unit (this is the reason I left every other "heddle" empty).<br />
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The same goes for the weft: the crammed bands have 12 picks, the two first end the two last in each band go in the same shed. I guess that the linen weft is double the thickness of the other yarn (and I think the other weft is the same as the warp).<br />
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Each square is roughly 2 cm - maybe 1/2 cm for the crammed stripe/band, maybe 1 1/2 cm for the open square. <br />
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Kerstin på Spinnhusethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01417606744435651656noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931657983109057026.post-43023585536516599812015-05-09T19:44:00.002+02:002015-05-09T19:44:59.833+02:00"Händer som skapar"<br />
(Hands that create) - the exhibition to commemorate the 100-year jubilee of the local <a href="http://www.hemslojdenkronoberg.se/ " target="_blank">Hemslöjden branch</a> opened today.<br />
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The idea, when first announced, was to find 500 "creators" in the county, and let them choose one of two options: either a box 40 x 40 x 20 cm, or a "stick". <br />
I first thought to use the box, but when I understood that everything in the box had to be glued down so that it (the box) could be handled any whichway and still look "good", I changed my mind - it had to be the stick. One could make anything suitable to hang from a stick, with max measurements of 80 x 160 cm.<br />
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This exhibition is what I made "<a href="http://oddweavings.blogspot.se/search/label/daffodil%26snowdrop" target="_blank">The first daffodil</a>" for.<br />
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The local paper (which I read hours before the opening) was disappointed that nobody had "dared" go "outside the box". (Somebody might have told it that the makers were warned anything "sticking out" would be rejected...)<br />
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Well. I arrived at the opening, there were talks, a performance (wood-turning on lathe and piano music), and then the doors were opened. <br />
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My disappointment was the "airiness": I had anticipated a "massive attack", box-upon-box-upon-box-upon-box, sticks, more-boxes... (A rumour said there were "only" 300 participants, all done - which might explain the, um, sparseness.)<br />
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The public was there, though - not only the chosen 300; my guess would be double, at least. (This explains the odd photo-angles, but I hope it shows that all kinds of "making" was represented.)<br />
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I could probably have found a water spout nearer to the action, but after seeing so much people I got homesick. But on our afternoon walk we got our fill of running water - we "jumped the gate" and investigated <a href="http://www.hembygd.se/aktivitet/id/19728/invigning-av-vandringsleden-langs-rottneavagen/" target="_blank">the new walking trail</a> that will be inaugurated tomorrow: <br />
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Read more <a href="http://www.kulturparkensmaland.se/1.0.1.0/92/1/?item=art_art-s1%2F775" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.hemslojdenkronoberg.se/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=114:hander-som-skapar&Itemid=252" target="_blank">here</a>.Kerstin på Spinnhusethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01417606744435651656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931657983109057026.post-74669124431259956602015-05-04T18:03:00.000+02:002015-05-04T18:03:06.324+02:00May the fourth be with you!<br />
'nuf said, I think<br />
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