Green Series

After a break related to a trip to Beijing 😉 and smaller matters, I finished weaving on a wound warp. Today I took poor photos, but I and the camera are the best we can do – correcting the colors in Photoshop didn’t help either. Only the pattern is correct 🙂 Each of the selves is a bit over 4 cm wide. The lengths are as follows: 2.25 m, 1.6…

Brown Series

The material crisis has passed with the arrival of a full bundle of yarn. The colors will now be quite natural, and the selvedges will be difficult, because the wool is hard and rough. If so, I will make it more difficult and make the selvedges very patterned. I only wonder what my hands will look like after working through the whole bundle – maybe I will find a way to make the most effective peeling in the world. Each…

Yeast from the combi-vark

I am slowly breaking down my anti-skills in baking cakes. I approached yeast cakes methodically. I started by gathering information. It turns out that there are many ways to bake yeast cakes. I concluded that I can afford to be nonchalant. So I took the advice I didn't know, averaged the proportions of ingredients and calibrated the quantities so that the cake would fit in my combi-baker. Half a glass of milk...

Vertical weight looms

I planned to post some photos of my looms to illustrate the story of their creation, but uncle Google does such wonders with searches that I didn’t want to give him any more reasons to mix and match. People looking for information about looms and weaving might be horrified… I’ll just tell you that initially the looms consisted of a few joists, which were the subject of mockery by a certain Lord…