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so.   After all this watching Weave,  i am ready.  Just need to figure out the "loom".   This rug i have had for a long long time.  I don't know how it's undoing happened…don't remember.  For a long time it was on the seat of the truck.  Then it came off and has been on the shelf in the Albatros.  It needs to be washed.  Lots of  Things on it.  But it's what i want to make.  Back to This:

"Collectively,   Americans discard two quadrillion pounds of used clothing and textiles into the landfills each year."  Wiki how.  2010

and then from a blog that i have just recently found,  Bealtaine Cottage:

"don't throw it away.  There is no away"

again, So.   

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i brought it in this morning and  tacked it to the Big Beam.   This corner will tutor me.  Between it and having experienced Jude's Considering Weave,  i will be able to make my way.

 

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This just makes me SWOON.  As i used to say about drawing,  this is better,  like way better, than Sex.   yes.     And with the beloved Thrift Shop,  Ten Cent Tuesdays,  there is a Glut of fabric.   What they have is not just locally donated,  but they haul it from somewhere.  I still haven't asked where that Somewhere is.  But they Cull periodically and bring in new stuff.   There is an ENDLESS supply of Cotton.   I called the hardware this morning and he said yes,  they have spools of cotton string,  Postal String.   Am thinking this can be the Warp.

 

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From the Other Side.  It is 28 inches wide and 4 feet long.  A good size.  and i counted one line, the dark line and could count 120 strings of warp.  This means that there were an equal number "hidden" by the weave Over.  So.  240 warp strings.  That's a lot.

i'm on a mission.

 

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Progress.  Giana Lily Alluvial Fan's  Fishing with her Dad pants.  Pants.  Not shorts.  She is only going to be One Year Old.  These are Pants.  waist to cuff pants.  The River on the right leg will go on around.

 

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when it comes around, it will go under a Sun and a Moon….both of Deb Lacativa's magical genius.  So i give her,  this little girl,  what i love too….  Tomorrow it will be done and i can put in the mail with her Tin Tea Set.  Every fishing trip into the mountains of Colorado needs a Tin Tea Set.

 

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18 responses to “poised at the edge of weaving”

  1. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    ….first the swoon over all that material, the undoing of what was and plans for the doing of what will be…fingers touching, mind calculating how this will become something new. I virtually bow to the rag winders, cloth savers, and weavers. It might be one big something, or many smaller somethings, but it’s in good hands now.
    The river, sun and moon are such completions for the little girl with her big big name…I can’t wait to see her in it. Surely there will be a photograph to share. If not, I still see her in it, and fishing.
    There is no away…! That’s SO true.

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  2. Joan@CopperCreekers Avatar

    i used to help my granma tear strips from out grown clothes and other cloth then stitch to make long strips that we would then braid then coil and stitch coils together to make round rag rugs.
    precious little britches grin the River, Sun and Moon just are perfect with fishes.

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  3. Cynthia Avatar
    Cynthia

    oh seemingly in transit of drs endlessly..but know you are filling me with such happiness the pants..the tea set…the poised on the edge..

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  4. Liz Avatar
    Liz

    Oh what beautiful cloths trying to escape their woven anonymity …

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  5. beth Avatar

    Mmmm. I would have a big urge to pull those cloths free. To UNweave. Here is where I used to get cotton rug warp. Even with shipping it might be more economical than hardware store string?
    http://www.greatnorthernweaving.com

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    …………………………..OH!!!!!!!!!!………………
    My HEART SKIPPED A BEAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    OH and just EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
    look at all that so BEAUTY FULL
    string
    oh…i can see myself wanting one of each with no use in mind
    but simply to have a string collection!!!!!!
    which weight would you suggest? of the neutral….

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  7. jude Avatar

    for some reason today, a rag woven cloth seems a good way to store cloth

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  8. Mo Crow Avatar

    Wow! that is a big project would take me at least three lifetimes!

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. the little girl with the Big Name. if there is a photograph to share, i WILL share. Funny. after all the comotion over her name they call her G. or Baby G. Gianna Lily Aluvial Fan. I have no name for her in my head. except that long one. Giana Lily Alluvial Fan.
    i want her to be fishing with her Dad.

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    really. really want to make a rug or two or three or MORE

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes. we are poised on edges of doctors, tea sets and rags

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    they were happy there. the rags. in their community, i think.
    something loosened that.
    i am making it back.

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes…it would be. fragments from the long strips, saved.

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar

    i don’t think it will. I don’t feel it to be a big project at all,
    but just a little bit of daily Going. and soon….a thing of USE.

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  15. Saskia Van Herwaarden Avatar

    no away, true
    love the rug, have one similar but longer, it’s hanging outside ‘airing’ that’s the thing with animals in the house, haha, odorous smelly hairy critters, and then we also have a dog!

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  16. Saskia Van Herwaarden Avatar

    grrrrrwlll, comment evaporated
    true, there is ‘no away’ – but somehow on the internet there is!
    have a similar rug, slightly longer, hanging outside to get rid of smells; living with animals, two&four-footers, inevitably leaves marks, stains, untraceable odors; it’s hanging on one of the goal posts, being very decorative; if it starts to unravel like yours I’ll come to you for class

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  17. Saskia Van Herwaarden Avatar

    aha, so there’s no away on internet either

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar

    there’s no away and ALL WAYS in life and in the air waves….no away.
    I loved how simply she put it.
    and really, it’s for Everything…not just stuff, but feelings/thoughts
    There’s no away

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