Draw to purchase.

I just finished this piece, and it is ready to ship to a new home. Now I need to find it a home!

In honour of Family Day, I am opening up a draw to purchase, with entry open to everyone.

The only way to enter (unless you are on my email list) is to go to the Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/rocklakeweaving), where you need to comment on the draw post AND share the post. One entry per person, the entry deadline is 2pm, Tuesday, February 17^th, 2015.

The details are:

Warp: 11 colours of unmercerized cotton, in a random threading with red, yellow, and purple background

Weft: Teal mercerized cotton

Weave: 8 shaft Herringbone

Length: 3.65 m

The winner of this draw (chosen by RNG, with the entry list numbered by time of comment) will be able to purchase this piece at the retail value of $365 CDN. The piece will be shipped within two business days of payment, and the exact shipping cost will be invoiced once it is shipped.

If the draw winner does not submit payment within 24 hours of the draw, another winner will be chosen.

Good luck!

Ever wonder?

I know that some of you are curious about how weavers do what we do. I recently wrote about the process, and the time involved. It is hard, I think, to get actions across in words though. Add in the fact that some of the people who have, and will read my musings, are not weavers themselves, and the terminology can get confusing.

If you don’t know what beaming, threading, sleying etc. ARE, then it is difficult to understand why these things are necessary, and why they take so much time.

To help with that, I have uploaded several videos to my Facebook page, which show little bits of some of the things involved in weaving fabric.

Please keep in mind that I am most definitely NOT a professional videographer, narrator, or even a reasonably good teacher. These videos are not intended to be instructional, as there are plenty of people out there on websites and YouTube that do a much better job of explaining themselves than I ever could.

In addition, I make no claims to be doing any of these things “correctly”. The reality is that there are many ways to do each task involved in weaving, and they are all valid methods. Depending on the equipment, location, type of weaving being done, and most assuredly, the individual weaver, any (and sometimes all) of these tasks can be done in different ways. I do some of them in different ways myself, depending on what I am making, and, if I am being truly honest, the day. I like to search out and try different methods to be used with my equipment, and all its variations. Sometimes things work out well, sometimes…..well….not so much.

In the end, it is all an adventure of discovery, and most of the time, I get some lovely fabric in the end, and that makes me very happy.

If you want to see some of what I do each day, hop over to Facebook, check out the videos, and if you are so inclined, like my page for further updates, and maybe more videos.

https://www.facebook.com/rocklakeweaving/videos