Tue, 06/09/2009 - 01:11

suzyhok (not verified)

 Hi I'm a New Yorker but recently retired from teaching art outside of Albany and moved to Savannah -- to avoid the nasty Upstate winters.  We are back up North on Lake Champlain for the summer and living on our sailboat, so my weaving will be limited to cardboard loom weaving this summer.  I have been weaving for over 30 years -- mostly on 4 shafts or smaller, but was excited to get a Mighty Wolf 8 shaft loom in February for my new studio.  

 

Tue, 06/09/2009 - 01:39

dteaj (not verified)

Hi Orion. Are you a member of the Weavers Guild of Boston? Patricia taught that plant weaving this year through WGBl so I'm wondering about the possible connection. I'm a WGB member, but I wasn't in Patricia's plant weaving - too many great classes to choose from. I ended up taking the Bumps class with Barbara Herbster and using Habu linen and cotton papers in a fulled doubleweave and wool/stainless steel in another collapse scarf later in the year. Those are the first non-traditional fibers I've used.

Tue, 06/09/2009 - 02:17

Manicgirl (not verified)

Hello, another SCA-person here (Drachenwald). I used to be quite active in the SCA before, but now I only attend 1 or 2 events per year. I've become more and more obsessed with clothing my family in handwoven garb, it's a slow process, but fun.

Before I started weaving more seriously on my floor loom, I wove tablet-weaving quite a lot. I like complex patterns, but since my daughter was born, it's hard to find the concentration needed (not to mention how upset I got when she found one of my weavings, and played with it!)

Besides my Viking/mediaeval interest, I also have a "thing" for 19th century history, and textiles, but I have so much to learn in that field. I'm sure you all will enlighten me :)

Tue, 06/09/2009 - 02:17

Manicgirl (not verified)

Hello, another SCA-person here (Drachenwald). I used to be quite active in the SCA before, but now I only attend 1 or 2 events per year. I've become more and more obsessed with clothing my family in handwoven garb, it's a slow process, but fun.

Before I started weaving more seriously on my floor loom, I wove tablet-weaving quite a lot. I like complex patterns, but since my daughter was born, it's hard to find the concentration needed (not to mention how upset I got when she found one of my weavings, and played with it!)

Besides my Viking/mediaeval interest, I also have a "thing" for 19th century history, and textiles, but I have so much to learn in that field. I'm sure you all will enlighten me :)

Tue, 06/09/2009 - 03:51

Dustbunnies (not verified)

This is part of the blurb on Woolhouse Tools website about the 20+ accessory.  20+, to put it simply, adds 20 years of weaving to a weaver's life. The device transfers the Kirsten's countermarch tie-up from under the loom to behind the loom. Each column pair in the peg board is for one treadle. Each pair's left side is for the lower lam tie-ups. Each pair's right side is for the upper lam tie-ups. One cord per pair is pegged with a Texsolv straight peg. The unused peg of each pair is parked in an unused cord end loop to stop the unused cord from slipping back through the peg board. I have several friends that have it on their large countermarche looms  and it doesn't have to be a Woolhouse Loom.

Tue, 06/09/2009 - 04:30

Susan Harvey (not verified)

Hello Everyone!

I have been weaving since 1996 and since 1998 on a Woolhouse Tools 45" 12 shaft countermarche with the floating lamms system.  I also have a Louet Spring 36" 12 shaft CM with parallel lamms ( same things as floating really....)

Both looms do essentially the same thing but both looms are quite different!

I look forward to our coming discussions on all our special looms.

 

Susan

 

Tue, 06/09/2009 - 04:30

Susan Harvey (not verified)

Hello Everyone!

I have been weaving since 1996 and since 1998 on a Woolhouse Tools 45" 12 shaft countermarche with the floating lamms system.  I also have a Louet Spring 36" 12 shaft CM with parallel lamms ( same things as floating really....)

Both looms do essentially the same thing but both looms are quite different!

I look forward to our coming discussions on all our special looms.

 

Susan

 

Tue, 06/09/2009 - 04:55

Etaoin (not verified)

 Hello all, I'm a Roman 1st century C.E. re-enactor and a 20 year plus SCA member. My fine husband built a warp weighted loom for me, only one warp put on it so far but it is linen, and I demoed for three months worth of weekends at a  museum. I have a unbranded 8H floor loom and a 8H Dorothy table loom in storage waiting for TLC to bring them back to working condition; an inkle loom that stays fairly busy and have done backstrap band weaving, including a peculiar Irish variant described as weaving on your toe. Tablet weaving keeps calling me back, like a siren. On a later historical note, I make bobbin lace.  Enablers seem to be common here, I've gotten a couple of friends seriously hooked on spinning, both with spindle and wheel.

 

Looking forward to learning together! 

Tue, 06/09/2009 - 04:55

Etaoin (not verified)

 Hello all, I'm a Roman 1st century C.E. re-enactor and a 20 year plus SCA member. My fine husband built a warp weighted loom for me, only one warp put on it so far but it is linen, and I demoed for three months worth of weekends at a  museum. I have a unbranded 8H floor loom and a 8H Dorothy table loom in storage waiting for TLC to bring them back to working condition; an inkle loom that stays fairly busy and have done backstrap band weaving, including a peculiar Irish variant described as weaving on your toe. Tablet weaving keeps calling me back, like a siren. On a later historical note, I make bobbin lace.  Enablers seem to be common here, I've gotten a couple of friends seriously hooked on spinning, both with spindle and wheel.

 

Looking forward to learning together! 

Tue, 06/09/2009 - 06:37

Elfreda (not verified)

 Hi! I got here early enough that there weren't any SCA groups yet, so I thought I'd start one. 

I'm Baroness Elfreda atte Kingeswode, from the Kingdom of An Tir. I like to spin and weave and knit, although I've never met a fiber art that I didn't like, at least a little! Well, there is the issue that my sewing always lags behind my expectations. 

I have 2 spinning wheels, a red oak Rick Reeves 24" saxony, and an Ashford Joy single treadle. Not terribly medieval, but I can't spin on a drop spindle for love nor money. I also have an 8 shaft Schacht floor loom that I love, even though it's been collecting dust and papers (there's not much of a flat surface, but I manage) for a few years now. 

Looking forward to Weavolution becoming to weavers what Ravelry is for knitters... 

Elfreda