Week 2 of 2025

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.

Pets - 

The hens are doing well.

Molly having fun in the cold this morning.

Maggie and GingerSnap! were startled by the dog barking.

All the best!♥︎