Well I took the plunge and ordered a small loom from Wingham Wool, which unsurprisingly enough is in Yorkshire. There was a definite niggle to get back to weaving though to be quite honest I already have a larger Ashford loom but the setting up in this house would be impossible. What provoked me was the colour yellow, it has been on my mind for a long time. This shaft of sunlight has haunted me, palest lemon, but you can see the problem in the photo, you have to latch the winding stick to a surface, here it is the bookcase, when you warp....
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Yellows; pale primroses, and evening primrose of course as well as these two below. Coltsfoot and cowslips and so many more.
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Here is a rather beautiful loom I bought for pennies because someone had grown too old to use it....But it was far too complicated for me and so I gave it away.
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I must say that yellow yarn does look soft. I like it when the weaving is soft.
ReplyDeleteLooking up these old photos and I know where the wool came from, it was the Shetland Isles,also had a zingy orange as well.,,
DeleteThose yellows and Spring go together beautifully don't they? Good luck with the weaving - keep us up to date on progress,
ReplyDeleteIt is funny how colour 'talks' to you, yellow is definitely spring, daffodils and the brimstone butterfly. I never plant daffodils because in the part of Bath I lived the verges were always covered in them and that piece of verse 'a host of golden daffodils' always went through my head...
DeleteIt looks interesting. The colors are appealing. I have a small table loom, which I haven't used for years. I always wanted a big loom as I love weavings and the sound of a loom as it's working, but never had the space for it. I probably wouldn't have used it enough either to justify the cost. They are beautiful
ReplyDeleteYes the clatter is very appealing, I look at videos of people weaving all over the world, and marvel that this miracle of stitches that appear is just like the language of the computer ;)
ReplyDeleteWell done for your perseverence. A group of crafting friends is having a Weaving Day soon so I am taking my late friend Annie's Inkle Loom to have a play with. I think I can manage on something that small!
ReplyDeleteThink you make guitar straps on inkle looms Jennie, should be interesting.
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