1 Day 1 World Project: 11:00 am – noon
When I was visiting with my grandson last week, he reminded me that this is the last week of the 1 Day 1 World Project, and while he knew that I would be… Continue reading
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I Love Linear B!
When Knossos was excavated, thousands of small clay tablets were found. Some of their symbols were pretty easy to figure out: and some weren’t. (I am drawing them myself, because I have… Continue reading
Tracking Textile History: The Minoans, Part Two
Before we get into more of Minoan textiles, we need to take a short look at how this culture was brought back from three thousand years of oblivion. There is a fast-paced, readable… Continue reading
Tracking Textile History: The Minoans
Okay, you know the Minoans, right? Those bull-leaping snake-handling fresco-painting labyrinth-building people? “Bull leaping, fresco from the Great Palace at Knossos, Crete, Heraklion Archaeological Museum” by George Groutas – originally posted to Flickr… Continue reading
One Banner, Five Techniques, a Few Problems
Our neighbors have created their own holiday – Corn Day, a celebration of all things corn and corny. The prize for the corniest joke is a large ugly ceramic tureen that looks like… Continue reading
Saturday Sunrise
After a week of rain, we are having a gorgeous fall day. Just the thing for the 1 Day 1 World Project’s 7:00 – 8:00 am hour. I’ve missed a few weeks because… Continue reading
Yarn Trunk: Down 1 Cone – Towel Drawer: Up 5 Towels
I mistakenly thought that this batch of towels would quickly clean up my yarn stash. It’s a two-shuttle weave, and the pattern thread has some long floats, so I thought that would require… Continue reading
3-D Printing and Handcrafts
The first time I heard about 3-D printing was on an episode of The Big Bang Theory, where two of the guys bought a 3D printer for $10,000 or something, and used it… Continue reading
Sneak Peeks
It’s been exactly a year since I wove some monk’s belt towels. That batch did not use up my yarn stash as much as I hoped. I still have just odds and ends… Continue reading
Natural Dye Lightfastness Results
Last summer I did a lot of natural dye experiments, I gave the samples a year to rest, and then put them out in the sun for a month to see how they… Continue reading