String is shiny, right?

[lwood]

Dear Jólnir:

For WinterÞing, I want this book: . It's got funfun things in it that don't even need a loom and involve inherently geektastic things like heat-shrink tubing.

Then, in a while, when I have the cojones and the stash, wouldn't this or this make a lovely stash-buster what could also be employed for more serious weaving?

One grants, however, that one should only consider oneself worthy of $200 looms once one has made headway with the cardweaving tangle that was, at one point, meant to be a present for dr_beowulf. Not that it can't still be, but that rather would mean finishing moving the cards from the mess I made on the cardweaving loom I'd bought to the one I'm borrowing (um, very extended loan, what is it, three years now?) from wolfs_daugher.

But still.

LOOK!

There could be PLAID!

-- Lorrie

Comments

[baldurrising.livejournal.com]

I highly recommend Graham of Menteith plaid. It's real purty. And, ya know, my clan. :)

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Like this?

's right purty...

-- Lorrie

[baldurrising.livejournal.com]

Thats it! I've got a scarf of it I wear when I ride in cold weather. Gotta get me a kilt of it for when I get married. Soon as I find me a gal worth marrying.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Someday...

-- Lorrie

[baldurrising.livejournal.com]

Right, and we'll see the Aesir, Vanir, and Jotnar sitting around a campfire singing Kum By Yah at the wedding reception.

Wow... now how's that for a mental image?

[lwood.livejournal.com]

You will probably get married before I get a Real Loom™.

-- Lorrie

[baldurrising.livejournal.com]

Aye, tis possible, if by Real Loom you mean one lined with human entrails and with a skull for the shuttle.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Nonono. The skulls are the weights for the warps, which are entrails.

One makes a shuttle from any spare rib that one has lying around, and the beater is, of course, a real sword.

But by Real Loom™ I mean something like unto the ones described above, only more complex so you can do, I dunno, tweed and things.

Which is why I liked the book best, for a starting point, as it focused on inexpensive and/or found objects, like grocery bags and heatshrink tubing.

-- Lorrie

Looms hmm

[dragonhearth.livejournal.com]

I am really struggling to learn to spin on a drop spindle with some really good wool. It's driving me nuts. But I want a spinning wheel sooo bad. Yet I don't knit well or crochet. I can do a mean lucet though, I use that to make cords for my coven members by hand. Oops, i'd better get to work on those... I only have 2 months to get them done.

Re: Looms hmm

[lwood.livejournal.com]

When I had an obligation to braid cords, I already knew a bit of lucet, but I had a hankering to learn kumihimo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumihimo), and can highly recommend it--especially in the ghettotech style I was taught.

Specifically, if one is going forth in the canonical Japanese fashion, one uses manymany itsybitsy strands of silk (or, later, rayon). And that's great and all, but expensive and fussy.

I was taught on perl cotton, and while I did wind up using the appropriate lead-filled wooden spools for the supply threads, my counterweight is a bunch of fishing weights in a small pouch, attached to the work by an S-hook. As I said, ghettotech--but it works great, and one may work even sixteen-strand round braids in just a few hours on one's maru dai (http://www.mtnloom.com/Kumi.htm) (round table). Yes, that's a lot of committment, but you can get your feet wet with a simple notched board like this one (http://www.lacis.com/catalog/data/n_kumi-himo.html#BN11).

The most fun I've had with kumihimo was a nine-strand round braid, because I had to develop the pattern myself: the books have a strong preference for powers of two, and a weaker one for multiples of two--and, as I bet you can figure, some days you just need nine.

And doesn't this (http://www.schachtspindle.com/products/spinning/spinning_wheels_ladybug.htm) look like the cutest little spinning wheel ever!?

-- Lorrie

Re: Looms hmm

[dragonhearth.livejournal.com]

I have a kumihomo braid I've been working on for a bit with a small card. I have been looking at wheels today instead of working, and I think I'm leaning towards a Kromski Sonata which is portable but looks a bit like a re-enactor's wheel for my SCA stuff I do. We'll see. Right now it's not in the future for me as money's really tight. Really, really.

My daughter took to drop spindle and spinning on a friend's wheel like nobody's business. We hate Amber, yes we do. :P

Lady Bronwyn Shuttleworth
a welsh lady who can't spin or weave. (sigh)

Re: Looms hmm

[lwood.livejournal.com]

I think I'm leaning towards a Kromski Sonata which is portable but looks a bit like a re-enactor's wheel for my SCA stuff I do. We'll see. Right now it's not in the future for me as money's really tight. Really, really.

*nodnod* There are a couple spinning wheels knocking around my local community that I might be let to borrow, but probably not.

My daughter took to drop spindle and spinning on a friend's wheel like nobody's business. We hate Amber, yes we do. :P

Nono, see, this provides you with a new source of supply for the fiber art of your choice. *nod*

a welsh lady who can't spin or weave. (sigh)

The only way to get better at that is the same way one gets to Carnegie Hall--or so I keep getting told. I keep trying to wave wands and squint and stuff? But it just doesn't work.

-- Lorrie

[faeryl.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. *grin* I've been drooling over Flip for months now(problem is I'd want the longest width *and* every available combination of heddles. Adds up to almost as much as a Leclerc Dorothy).

>There could be PLAID!

see http://www.tartansauthority.com/Web/Site/home/home.asp

also weavecast.com - episode 20

(might I suggest one of the dashing Maclean tartans? ;-)

[lwood.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. *grin* I've been drooling over Flip for months now(problem is I'd want the longest width *and* every available combination of heddles. Adds up to almost as much as a Leclerc Dorothy).

One starts slowly and works up. Loom first, then accessories slowly--I might deliberately get the teensiest one to see if I enjoyed it...

see http://www.tartansauthority.com/Web/Site/home/home.asp

...it has a tartan ferret.

*dies and iz ded of ky00t*

But which is more amusing?

The Clergy or the Blue Spirit?

-- Lorrie (snicker snork "blue spirit" ahahaha)

[lwood.livejournal.com]

The same site had Grey Spirit.

JUST SO YOU KNOW.

-- Lorrie