This weekend was Carlos' birthday weekend. (His actual b'day was Friday, 4/25).
I had two big goals for textiles this weekend: to go to CNCH for the Vendors' Hall, and to clear enough space in the garage behind the loom to make room for the AVL Warping Wheel to have a spot. Both were achieved!
On Saturday morning I went to CNCH (Conference of Northern California Handweavers) and made a beeline for the Vendors' Hall. It didn't seem as full of vendors than it had been twelve years ago (last time I came to CNCH) but what was there was very nice. I saw Sandra Rude's wonderful booth, and also spent a bunch of time hanging around the Ryukyu Textile booth, where I bought a little bit of Linden tree bast yarn. It's fragrant; it smells like an antique piano soundboard.
I also happened to get two wonderful skeins of metal-wound silk thread from John Marshall - one silver, and the other gold. The skeins were oh so slinky, but skeined thread is liable to get tangled, and the gold and silver threads were very fine, so I decided to try and wind them onto bobbins ASAP. I did so, yesterday, with very few tangles and no loss at all. Only broke once in the winding.
Once the silver and gold thread was bobbinned, I relaxed. Hanks of gold and silver are very sensuous to handle, but the thought of getting them tangled really bothered me, so I wound them off.
Immediately below please see the two little skeins displayed in a bamboo box.
Here's a photo of the silver thread at 30x magnification:
And below see the happy photo of the Warping Wheel in its dedicated position behind the loom, ready to wind.
