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 […]
Dream 20080222, 2:30 AM: The Girl with the Pasteur Pins
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.