[Ansteorra-textiles] spinning and weaving books
Nancy Wederstrandt
nweders at mail.utexas.edu
Wed Jul 16 08:09:37 PDT 2003
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>Who's got the new loom? Do tell! What all was missing/needed repair?
Well, it's not new, Suvdchin is learning to weave four harness,
borrowed Otter's table top. I wish you'd come to Austin to help her. I
don't do four harness much and she thinks I know all the gory
details. (sigh). I did the best I could - looked over her loom and it
needed some maintenance work and such. She bought the book you recommended
(hence the hint) and loves it.
> Huh...don't know about the wonderful part. I warped up my production inkle
>today to do several feet of trim, and the flat gold stuff I bought to do the
>brocading with didn't work right at all. I ripped it all out and now have to
>develop a Plan B. Sigh.
You are wonderful, I worship daily at the Corrine weaves and spins
altar. As for boo-boos I've done some really wonderful boo-boos. Like
over twist spinning and then deciding to use it anyway and wound up with a
weirdly stretchy muffler that does funny things. Or the time I dyed wool
and thought I was getting one color and wound up with something like kitty
hairball color. What really fixed it for me was that I left a sock in the
washer when I dyed and wound up with a sock to match. (just one.)
>As to good weaving books, my favorite for beginning weaving (and for reference
>forever after) is Chandler's Learn to Weave. Great book - I think everybody
>should start with that one.
I looked through the one Suvdchin got and I agree, totally nice book.
> Right now my favorite fleece
>preparation book is Fournier and Fournier's In Sheeps Clothing. I learned a
>lot of what F & F discuss the hard way - but it was nice to see it affirmed in
>their book. Wish I'd had it to start with. By the way, that book deals
>primarily with fleece identification and preparation methods rather than
>spinning techniques.
THis is one I wanted to get but haven't bought.... sigh
> One book I haven't seen is the Alden Amos (or is it
>Amos Alden?) tome. Anybody got an opinion on it?
The web page I sent out a few weeks ago is his private
business. It's called Dragonfly farms. He's a wonderful wood worker.
Haven't seen the book. I learned by attending a class taught by a
woman from the Arkansas Museum up there. I need to take a refressher
course so I can remember how to do long draw on the wheel.
Clare
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