Green Beginning

There has been a lot of chatter on my small looms email group (to which I hardly ever post but love to read) about new looms. I've not done much with my rigid heddle loom I bought last year, favoring my simple picture frame loom.

Here is the 'green beginning' I warped up this morning.





The yarn isn't anything special, except the black is an alpaca/silk blend that has been sitting around for a while. I'm mostly just aiming at practicing a bit with what I have.

And a blast from the past, me weaving on my original picture frame loom back when I first started. That is the Fargo apartment, and the weaving became a purse that I carried my sketchbooks to and from work and school in. I remember still having that purse when I graduated college and it had some old notebooks stored in it somewhere last time I saw it. The picture (which I also have stored somewhere) is a black and white silver print from my photography class - it was taken by remote timer and was part of a series on how to weave on a flat loom.


Me circa 2003 weaving on a picture frame loom

Note: Mark thought there was a hole in my shirt collar in this photo - but the white spot is actually from a flaw on the photographic paper that I developed myself in the darkroom. In fact, it might be a fingerprint.

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