How did I end up with so many looms?
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Weaving update
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20 Days of HappyThanks #9: Mungo
This post is the 9th in a series of 10 instagram-based giveaways devised to promote our fellow business owners, as well as to give us a chance to say THANK YOU to all the people who support Skinny laMinx on social media all year long. A huge thank you to Mungo, whose very generous prize …
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Where fabric comes from
Sometimes I have the incredible good luck to take a peek beyond the factory door, and when I do, I’m almost always blown away and knocked sideways when I get a glimpse of just how much ingenuity, expense, commitment, skill, development and effort goes into making the things we use every day, and simply take …
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Making Friday: weaving progress
I pinned up all the bits and pieces so far made on my kiddie loom, along with a couple of experiments on my rather clunky second-hand rigid heddle, and all together, they make me feel pretty good about my progress But now that I’m the proud owner of a brand new Ashford knitter’s loom (a …
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Making Friday: Snakes!
Honestly, I don’t know why this is happening, but I keep drawing, weaving and printing snake motifs. Someone said it’s a symbol for change, so I’ll go with that. The snake at the top of this post is one I made at Baobab Batik when I was there in April with Ace Camps. He’s pretty …
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Making Friday: Proceeding with weaving
As you can see by these ratty attempts laid out like a barn cat’s trophies, I’ve been fiddling around with weaving on little looms at home for a while now. I’ve learned a bit on my own, but after visiting the Cape Guild of Weavers’ show a couple of weeks ago, I realised it was …
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Making Friday: Warpin’ mah looms
Yes, the title of this blog post would indeed suggest that I may use the personal pronoun as well as the plural with regard to weaving equipment because, after showing off on Instagram the fun I was having on a kiddie loom during my January break (pictured above), I was offered a fixed heddle table loom …
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Best Things: Brent Wadden
I can’t even believe I’m linking to a post about my own sad attempts at weaving in the context of this extraordinary artwork by Canadian artist Brent Wadden, but am only doing it in the hopes that some of his genius will rub off on me and my kiddie loom. Wadden started his art career as a painter, …
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