There are a lot of old silk-related books that are available as PDF’s online. I’ve gone through and pulled out some great illustrations. These are out-of-copyright, and free for use, to the best of my knowledge. I didn’t get ALL the pictures – I admit I picked the ones I liked, and ones I thought […]
These are handouts about silk and silkworms that I use when I do educational presentations for schools, museums, and fairs. One is aimed at younger kids, with more pictures and simpler wording: ; PDF file, 739K The other is aimed at adults or older kids, with just a couple of pictures and a lot of […]
It’s happened once before – that time, a Hungarian cool-photography website posted a link to my silkworm rearing page, and the course of a single day, the site got nearly five thousand hits. It didn’t have any really directly visible results, other than a spike in my hit numbers, but when they went back down, […]
I’m working on a project that I want to enter into the Handweavers Guild Show. It’s going to be silk sewing thread (size A), 74 tablets, double-face and brocade.
Remember in this entry, I was trying to figure out which of the three spool sizes to use, and I figured that it would probably depend on which ones were easiest to store? I went to the Container Store, and craft stores, and art supplies stores – and I finally found my solution. It’s a […]
I’m still chugging along with the peony. I’m done with the flower, and am now working on the leaves: Overall, I’m fairly pleased with how it’s going. I’ve certainly learned a lot – and I’m just working forward, leaving the artifacts of my learning process. I’ve also started taking lessons. It’s a fairly informal situation, […]
Howdy! The local Guild that I belong to, the Dallas Handweavers and Spinners Guild, has decided to open its semi-annual Juried Show to non-members. If you’re interested in entering, please get in touch! There’s some very decent prize money. The requirements are fairly simple. You can email me: oakenking@gmail.com
I’ve known for a while that Google was working on a project of making digital facsimiles of books. I have one of them posted in my Silk Library. What I didn’t know, is how MANY books they have now – it’s a HUGE collection. For those of us who are looking at “lost arts” type […]
Two things… I have been failing to get around to mailing my friend Barbara her bookmark. And, we got a fabulous new scanner at work. So, I took the ribbon in, and did some scanning, and then PUT IT IN THE MAIL.
I’ve been working on my Silk Library on WormSpit. I’ve added five books – one a Google book, and the others from the Digital Archives at the University of Arizona. Some of these were scanned from my own collection, others are used by permission. These are some really neat old books, full of information and […]