my new reeling videos
I’m planning to put these up on the silk reeling page – the first video shows catching the strands from the cocoons, the second and third are two different views of adding cocoons to the reeling strand.
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The Heminway Silk – Seller is up again.
For anyone who wanted some of the Heminway silk… The Ebay seller where I got the 000 Sewing Silk has some more to sell – he had been out of touch, not out of stock! His computer access has been up and down, so if one sells, he can’t always immediately re-list. You can see […]
More of the Heminway thread
In case you were wondering (I was!) what the difference between Size A and Size 000 thread is – now I can show you. I wanted to wait until I had some of the Heminway dyed black, so I could compare apples to apples. The bulky stuff on the right is regular size A silk […]
Heminway thread
Before degumming, right, and after, left. I got a great deal on some VERY fine thread. This stuff is Size 000 Silk Sewing Twist – normal, regular-fineness sewing thread is Size A, and it goes thicker up to F, and finer to 0, 00, and then this stuff. TINY. The problem is – the thread […]
Kosa (Tasar) Silk Sari
As I’ve said before, I LOVE getting packages from India. This one is something that I have been looking for for quite some time. It’s a hand-loomed pure Kosa (Tasar, or Indian Tussah) silk sari. It’s BEAUTIFUL. Just a peek, before I let you see the package opening up: But, of course, what I see […]
Why Peace Silk Pisses Me Off
I’ve been stewing over this for a while… usually every time that somebody emails me to tell me that I’m a horrible person, and that I should only use Tussah silk, because it’s “Peace Silk”, gathered from the jungle only after the moth has flown away happy and satisfied. It just ain’t so. My take […]
Do I know any Ravelry editors?
I’m thinking that somebody out there in Friends-List Land is probably a Ravelry editor… but I don’t know who. Somebody posted a link to my Stitch Marker Page. The Ravelry link is here. I’d really like to get it tied to my Ravelry profile. I’d also like to be able to add photos. But, I […]
Looking for Input
I’m doing a PowerPoint presentation on silk, which is something I’ve never done before – I usually just talk loud and wave my hands and pass around live insects. The live insects are demo rock-stars – everybody loves them. They rock the house. I have some experience with PowerPoint, but not much. I have a […]
Help with Naming a Class, Also, Ideas!
I’ve been invited to teach at the Golden Gate Fiber Institute in Winter of 2009. The Institute is a joint venture of Judith McKenzie McCuin and Morgaine Wilder, and they’re setting up some seriously intense workshops. You can check their list of Summer 2008 classes for an idea of what caliber of instructors they’re getting; […]
Jumping up and down – news from the show in Florida
My “To Keep Them Sweet” ribbon won a Complex Weavers prize at the Dallas Handweavers Guild show. Thanks to the kind help and good connections of a guild member, I was able to get it into the Complex Weavers Show at Convergence in Florida. One of the things I kind of agonized over, was whether […]