I had a lovely amount of time to spend at the loom this weekend. Good music playing on the speakers, garage door open admitting fresh air and wonderful sunshine, and I established a good rhythm.
As always, I am astonished and mesmerized by the almost magical ease with which a big bunch of thread can morph into a piece of cloth, a complex interlacement that produces a flat plane kept in tense order.
Those threads really do become a unified energetic whole. As a bow becomes energetically unified once a bowstring is tensed on it, so it follows with a textile. I have a difficult time coming up with the wording to describe what happens exactly, but the bow is the best analogy that I know. Wet-finishing does a huge part to energetically unify the components of a textile, equalizing energy from thread twist, tension differentials and weave structures.
Every once in a while someone will see me weaving, and say 'You know - that looks almost like real cloth!" LOL.
Looking quite nice with the blue, if I say so myself. And everything looks much better when I move the temple forward after each pattern repeat, which is 31 picks.
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