Svježe sa tkalačkog stana/Fresh from the loom
Dobra je vijest da sam prije sat vremena i nakon gotovo tri tjedna odugovlačenja napokon završila tkanje koji sam počela unatrag koji vikend. Dobri stari Matko konac u osnovi. Potku sam započela igrajući se sa srebrnom niti, ali kako nisam bila zadovoljna rezultatom, tako sam nakon nekoliko redova odlučila iskoristiti raznorazne pamučne konce ko
Slijedeće je tkanje već u planu samo moram nabaviti nešto lijepo, tanko i vuneno za osnovu. Potka je ispredena proteklih par tjedana, ali nisam imala vremena poslikati. Laku noć.
One of the readers asked me while commenting the last post whether I brought any woolen and alpaca products back from Chile. Well... I brought only one lovely piece of work of the local weaver which is since a month decorating one of the bedrooms. All to disappointment of the female family members, since their vision was that it would make a perfect throw for the long winter evenings. Little did they know that my vision was from the moment I spotted it to hang it just where it stands today.
As for the alpaca wool, I did not bring a single gram. Part of the reason was 23kg luggage allowance which is not that much for the three week joruney, and another one is that I still have around 9 out of 10kg of alpaca row fibre that arrived almost two years ago from the farm in Switzerland, and which has been all nicely carded and ready for spinning. So far, I have only managed to spin a little over half a kilogram.
So much of alpacas, wool and outstanding weaving and spinning projects, since over an hour ago, I have finally finished a newest piece of weaving that has been (very) slowly woven for the last three weeks.
Beige cotton warp, and weft which I started with the silver wire, but quickly changed to cotton as I was unhappy with the result. Instead, I used up a number of differenly colored cotton threads that have been sitting around for awhile waiting to be woven.
The plan for the next project is in my head, only have to run to the shop to get something thin and nice for the warp while the weft will be a self-span silk/alpaca/merino combination in pomegranite colour that I managed to make since back from holidays. In the meantime, I also have to rethink the plan with the silver wire.
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