This week I started a new weaving project-
Another set of tea towels using a pattern from the JST School of Weaving (Season 6, Episode 2). The warp is 2/8 cotton in three shades of green, and white. My goal is to be a bit more experimental with weft colours for these towels.
When I was getting the loom all ready to start weaving (dressing the loom), I realized that I use various height chairs to make the work more comfortable, and that they all involve weaving in some way.
When I thread the heddles (the "wires" that create the weaving pattern) I use a very low chair. It is over a hundred years old, made by hand with wooden pins holding it together. I refinished the chair in the 1980's when I was a teenager staying at my Aunt's in Quebec one summer (brought the chair home on the plane). A cousin replaced the rawhide seat - a woven pattern.
Here is a photo of the cousin (on his wedding day - his wife was a cousin of my grandfather).
When my children were young we went to see him and he showed me his floor loom, I had never seen one in person and was so impressed.
Next when I thread the reed (the piece that spaces the thread, and beats the warp threads in place when weaving), I use a stool that is a bit higher. The wool fabric on this was woven by my Mom in the 1970's.
When I am actually weaving I use a higher, older Leclerc weaving bench.
These are some woven items made by my Grandmother and an Aunt - these are catalognes (
typical French Canadian weavings made from cotton and strips of cloth/rags).
I am glad to be carrying on the tradition of weaving.

The hens are doing well.
Molly having fun in the cold this morning.
Maggie and GingerSnap! were startled by the dog barking.