I did get a lot of fibery things done this weekend, though they are mostly of the invisible variety.  Well, not entirely invisible, but...

 

From the kilogram of 30/2 I got from Tien on cones, I wound numerous smaller hanks.  Each hank is 400 yards.  This is a significant though manageable size; Diderot mentions in his Encyclopédie that the skeins should be kept 'mince' (thin) in order to reduce tangle and loss, so I'm trying this out as a method.  It's not much work winding into the 400-yard skeins.  They are piling up, glossy and beautiful!

 

I also started warping the satin sampler warp onto Millicent using the AVL Warping Wheel.  Amazing.  While it's true that I was using the WW in what may well be the least advantageous way, that is, winding a very short warp with a very high epi with a single cone, even in this way it is still the best way to go simply because the warp stays under tension.  The same steps would be used to beam a warp of 25 yards that would be used to beam a warp of 3 yards, but the design of the WW is such that I get to totally skip the scary uncertainty of moments during which the warp is not under tension.  With slippery and fine silken warps, this is of utmost importance.

 

Below is the draft I've decided on for Noemi's green scarf.  I've also decided that since I have enough silk, I am going to weave a run of these scarves - five in all, for now, and see how they sell.

 

 

Finally...a photo of young Tom Jones.  Just because.