tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22418544302214391132024-03-13T12:37:01.332-07:00eine SaiteTracy Hudsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155247731506601841noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241854430221439113.post-19127156890853288452017-02-02T08:49:00.001-08:002017-02-02T09:06:18.881-08:00A bike ride in Laos<div class="Body">
<span style="font-family: "iowan old style roman";">[Note, 2017: Hi! I'm going to start posting random bits of writing on this site. They will be mostly text, fewer photos, and unrelated to the textile topics that are current on <a href="http://www.einesaite.com/" target="_blank">my main website</a>. Hope you enjoy reading. - TH]</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mekong River, seen from Luang Prabang (photos are not from the ride , btw)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "iowan old style roman";"> While in Luang Prabang, helping with
a textile conservation project at Ock Pop Tok, I've had the use of one of their
town bikes. A basic one-gear affair, this bicycle is best suited to cruising
through the flat streets of Luang Prabang proper, where even the cars rarely
exceed 15 miles per hour. When trying to ride in a way I consider fun, i.e.,
slightly fast, I find the pedals spinning fruitlessly, and occasionally hear a
disturbing clacking noise from the drive train. So I knew if I wanted to do a
real ride here, I'd need to rent a proper bike with gears. Given the condition
of many of the roads in Laos, mountain bikes are the most practical, and
various types are available for rent, including some labeled<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Giant and Trek (whether these are in fact
Giant or Trek bikes is another matter.)</span><span style="font-family: "iowan old style roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "iowan old style roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I'm working 9-5, five days a week,
so any rental riding has to be on the weekend. I'd been considering the Kuangxi
Waterfall, a destination tuk-tuk drivers are constantly offering, about 30
kilometers outside of town. I visited the waterfall on my first trip to Luang
Prabang three years ago. It was the most beautiful waterfall I'd ever seen:
limpid pools of turquoise green, with smooth white chutes falling in terraced
levels. The day I went, we arrived early and had the pools to ourselves for a
short while, then the best swimming spots filled up with tourists while dozens
of Lao families brought picnics to the forested surroundings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "iowan old style roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remotely checked the route, through my
husband, unable to look up the terrain without my laptop. He described two
major hills on the way there, which are also mentioned in the guidebook. I knew
an 18 mile ride with climbing on a rented mountain bike would be a challenge,
but I considered the reward of the waterfall, and that the trip home would be
"downhill" (cue foreboding music).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "iowan old style roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Saturday was already hot and sunny
at 8am, but I was eager to try going somewhere, and I have a limited number of
weekends here, so I couldn't resist renting the bike. Once I weaved my way
beyond the excruciatingly slow Luang Prabang traffic of motorcycles, cars, and
pedestrians, it felt great to be on a bike with gears, able to push the pace
and make tracks through the landscape. I passed one guy in Serious Cyclist gear
as I left town, who gave me a thumbs up. The road climbed gradually, past
thinning mechanic and general goods shops, domestic dirt yards with roosters
and children, construction sites and open lots. The dusty town gave way to
agricultural fields and green, green hills. Much of the road was shaded at this
point, and it made for enjoyable riding. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "iowan old style roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Soon the first big climb began. It
had been described as 400 feet in 2 miles, which I realized is quite similar to
one of the climbs back to our house, up along Discovery Bay. I wished my water
were more accessible: I had to stop in order to get a drink, and I kept waiting
for a patch of shade. Finally there was shade, and the top of the hill, with a
group of French-speaking people on a cycling tour having a break. After some
water, I headed down the hill, passing an overly cautious car and settling into
a section of mostly-flat with rollers. This part reminded me of the
agricultural valleys near Port Townsend, except that the surroundings are
tropical rather than temperate - banana trees rather than Douglas fir.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "iowan old style roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Riding a bike gives a more intimate
experience of the Lao countryside and the villages one passes through. There is
time to examine the wooden houses, to appreciate the river running alongside,
to wonder at the dramatic, lush mountain ridges. And there's always the
possibility of stopping at will, as when I noticed a proliferation of looms in
a village near the waterfall, and stopped to admire and photograph some work in
progress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "iowan old style roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I'd tested the gears on my bike in
town, making sure they were all functional, but once I was out on the road, the
front derailleur turned fickle. Occasionally it would ease the chain onto the
smallest ring, but more often it would get stuck between, and I'd have to shift
back to the second chainring. This, of course, was only discovered in times of
need, and made for some awkward attacks on hills. I count myself lucky that the
gears cooperated on the final approach to the waterfall, which would have been
impossible otherwise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "iowan old style roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>That last, intense climb snakes up
through a busy village full of children, and it felt as steep as the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkGn-17Hw20" target="_blank">Basque village I'd watched a cyclist climb as a stunt on YouTube</a>: turn after turn,
going at near walking pace. I kept expecting children to tease or run along
next to me, but thankfully they ignored me. When the road straightened, I
recognized the end, the strip of juice shops and restaurants leading to the
waterfall entrance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "iowan old style roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There was nothing on my mind but
getting into the water. I paid the entrance fee, drenched in sweat, prompting
the ticket man to say "Very hot - swimming good!" Entered the park
like a zombie, walking straight past the bear rescue center and up to the first
pool of water, which I noticed was muddy brown and churning. Of course. Rainy
season, every river is muddy. The limpid pools are a different time of year,
but no matter, I was going in that water. Changing room, bathing suit, and in I
went, the water bracing and refreshing, despite its muddiness. Absolutely no
one else was swimming, which made me a bit of a spectacle, but I didn't care.
The cool water pulsing against my back was the opposite sensation to my long,
hot climb, the antidote.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "iowan old style roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Return trip: at one o'clock in the
afternoon, the heat was fierce. The road collected and magnified heat, and each
little patch of shade felt drastically cool by comparison, a quick breath of
freshness, instantly dispersed. This road was way hotter than the fresh black
asphalt of Whidbey Island in August, which my father-in-law likened to walking
on coals. This was more like swimming through coals - a complete surrounding of
heat. I looked at the shaded sides of the road longingly, imagining a parked
bicycle and a nap in the shade. But each time I stopped to drink, I found the
cool of the shade deceptive, for as soon as I stood still, the breeze of riding
ceased and the sweat could flow freely. There was nothing for it but to keep
going, even though each minor bump or incline was a slog, and climbing back up
the main hill nearly did me in. I couldn't fathom why I'd forgotten that I
would have to go back over the hill I climbed in the morning. What made me
think the return trip would be easier and mostly downhill?? The only elevation
saved on the way back is the final climb to the falls, which was a distant
memory by the time I was halfway back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "iowan old style roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As I neared Luang Prabang, the
kilometer markers by the road counting down: 9,...8,...7, I began fixating on
orange Fanta. I'd tell myself I could stop at the next roadside shack selling
cold drinks. Then I'd pass one, unconvinced. Memories of India made me wary -
whenever we were most desperate for a cold drink, we'd end up at a place
without a working fridge, or they'd have just put the bottles in to cool
recently. Electricity is more reliable here and now than 20 years ago in the
mountains of northern India, but my caution remained. Not to mention my need to
simply keep going, to keep putting kilometers behind me. Every glimpse of
liquid refreshment beckoned, even bottles of water (while I still had water in
my own bottle). I remembered such fantasies from other long rides or tough
indoor classes: promising myself I could drink All The Things as soon as I was
done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "iowan old style roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Just when I thought the persistent
inclines would never cease, and would ultimately get the best of me, I came to
the sweeping view of the bending river, with Luang Prabang spreading beneath
Phusi hill's golden pagoda. Still five kilometers away, but below me now - the
way was at last downhill.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "iowan old style roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "iowan old style roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Iowan Old Style Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As I re-entered town and the shops
and traffic thickened, I pulled up short next to a small, shady shop/house with
big, promising fridges full of soda. Chose and downed an orange Mirinda, while
huffing and dripping in the nice people's little space. A small boy was
summoned, who greeted me "Sabai Dee!" with hands together. Then he
surprised me with "How are you!" in the same tone, with the same
gesture. Otherwise, I was pleasantly ignored and left to drink and sweat and
sit in their doorway. I appreciate the Lao acceptance of foreigners with our
strange ways, the tendency to let us be - a contrast to the staring and
questioning in India.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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rental place later was painful. I'd learned how much difference a small thing
like the height of the handlebars can make. Not to mention the fickle gears!
Next weekend I'll have to choose a different bike. Also learned that if it
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Tracy Hudsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155247731506601841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241854430221439113.post-57695149190027707762013-11-26T21:37:00.001-08:002013-11-26T21:37:42.479-08:00Sewing boats<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Stitching boats with coir - a Keralan craft demonstrated in Doha: over at the <a href="http://tracy-hudson.squarespace.com/blog/einesaite/" target="_blank">new website</a>.<br />
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<br />Tracy Hudsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155247731506601841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241854430221439113.post-34568991283528801892013-10-09T02:10:00.001-07:002013-10-09T02:10:05.736-07:00Getting ready to move.....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm in the middle (or still near the beginning, really) of this, which I promised to talk about in detail. And definitely, it's coming with me. Everything is being prepared, and it will be prettier and more navigable and more image-heavy than ever. I'm not moving, but the blog is.<br />
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The content of this site will remain, so it can always be searched and found once again. Some of it will come to the new place, and some will just stay here and be linked, fondly.<br />
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It's exciting, though, and you're going to like it. There will be weaving, and spinning, and textiles, and spindles.... And I finally get to tell you about this yarn, too, which is currently featured in the Autumn 2013 issue of <a href="http://plymagazine.com/">PLY Magazine</a>.<br />
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After just a bit more housekeeping in the new place, I'll post the link and have a welcome party.</div>
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<br />Tracy Hudsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155247731506601841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241854430221439113.post-35745081532954206332013-08-22T20:21:00.000-07:002013-08-22T20:21:14.593-07:00Vincent always does this<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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He kills me, every time. </div>
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He's been done to death, marketed and sold beyond all reason, and the extreme tourism of braving the museum queues is enough to put one off. But this is Van Gogh, and no matter how swarming the crowds are, or how relentless the branding,</div>
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when I get close to the brushstrokes, I'm in awe, and dead to the world.</div>
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There's something that aches and pulls, while looking up close. The pain and striving and loneliness of his search are etched into his characteristic marks.</div>
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Details are frank, uncompromising, unapologetic. The oppression of peasant life and of his own struggle are evident in a bright spot of light on the tip of a nose.</div>
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I think part of the unbearable poignancy of his work is being able to see in one painting both the bright energy that charms and attracts viewers of all types, and the evidence of the endless fight with himself: the insecurity, dissatisfaction, and conviction that it can be great if he works hard enough. In a quote on the wall, he was encouraged by a certain landscape to believe that eventually,</div>
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"I'll make things that work." </div>
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Going closer and closer to this painting feels like a descent into madness, exhilarating and frightening.<br />
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The colors also express both genius and suffering. The incredible combination of deep maroon, pure orange, ochre, and periwinkle blue/violet in this single pear tree trunk made me weak in the knees.</div>
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As he spends more time in the mental asylum and the end of his life nears, the agitation of mind is ever more visible in the drastic beauty of marks and colors. I don't know which is more moving, the intensity of beauty or the anguish in every stroke. </div>
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The current exhibit at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is well-funded and nicely done - I like the idea of covering a wall with an enlarged ink drawing, one of my favorites.</div>
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And digital displays allowed the visitor to flip through entire sketchbooks, which is a breathtaking experience.</div>
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There's also a focus on conservation, which is timely and interesting for me.</div>
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But it will always be the work that brings me back. Wherever I can see work by Vincent van Gogh, I know I will be overwhelmed.</div>
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(Apologies for the blurriness of most photos - hard to get good shots in the museum. Helps if you squint.)</div>
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I'm not in Laos anymore, but I have to post one more tribute to the daily beauty of the <a href="http://www.ockpoptok.com/create/living-crafts-centre/cat_27.html">Ock Pop Tok Living Crafts Centre</a> in Luang Prabang. Following a topic suggested and <a href="http://www.ockpoptok.com/blog/whats-hanging-in-the-garden-today-the-silk-rack-at-the-living-crafts-centre-luang-prabang-laos/">recently posted by Jo on the OPT blog</a>, I'm sharing my numerous shots of the work hanging on the line. This is a constantly shifting parade of yarns and finished scarves, presenting delicious juxtapositions.</div>
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Freshly washed or dyed scarves alongside skeins of silk are a celebration of texture.</div>
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Inspiring palettes begged capturing for future reference.</div>
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The light and shadow of the trees in the garden, and the surrounding green create a lyrical setting for the handcrafts.</div>
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Hanging yarns range from the intriguing</div>
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to the serene</div>
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Sigh.... hard to believe I left this place, but I'll surely be back someday.Tracy Hudsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155247731506601841noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241854430221439113.post-66040037004863906102013-06-15T05:02:00.002-07:002013-06-15T05:02:32.303-07:00Random beauty from Luang Prabang<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tracy Hudsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155247731506601841noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241854430221439113.post-58823780989937816622013-06-10T17:39:00.000-07:002013-06-10T17:39:19.083-07:00Finished objectsGuess who has a finished object!<br />
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This is Euay Kiang, whose blurred hands were whipping through the discontinuous supplementary weft on this beautiful weaving in my earliest Laos photos. Look at how complex this is:<br />
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It's an excellent example of how the vertical heddle storage is not a pre-programming of the weaving, but merely one tool that has to be used with great skill to make it all come together. She had to know when to change all those colors, and she was never looking at a picture. She may have consulted a woven sample at the beginning, but my the time I saw her, she was doing this all by heart.<br />
That dark, snake-like design is in fact a snake, the Naga, which is one of the most important symbols in Lao weaving. It's a kind of protective deity, and they are seen in front of all the temple gates, and on the roofs of temples as well.<br />
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I was passing this temple, and saw a cloud that looked like another Naga!<br />
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Okay, and I have an FO as well. Ta-da:<br />
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It's more than a little humbling, to display this next to Kiang's FO, but I do owe it to her that it's finished, so there's a connection. I showed this to her, and she was enthusiastic for me to work on it, so I tied up to her loom and sat there weaving, demonstrating Andean pick-up for the Lao weavers.<br />
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When you show a bunch of professional weavers a thing like this, and they ask how long it will take to finish, and you admit that it would probably take about two hours, maximum - there's really no choice but to finish it that day. So I have the Ock Pop Tok weavers to thank for the completion of this stage of my Andean weaving study. And I'm proud of it, even if it's kindergarten.<br />
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Chok – discontinuous supplementary weft<o:p></o:p></div>
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Kit – continuous supplementary weft<o:p></o:p></div>
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(The Lao terms are so much more concise!)</div>
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The top weaving shows both types of supplementary weft, </div>
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the middle ones are discontinuous (<i>chok</i>) and the bottom continuous (<i>kit</i>).</div>
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Traditional Lao weaving incorporates complicated and highly
symbolic patterns in supplementary weft. This means that in addition to the
warp and weft yarns that create the woven structure, an additional set of yarns
is worked in as weft to make the pattern. Because these weft yarns are not
integral to the structure, the technique is called supplementary weft.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The supplementary weft may be continuous or discontinuous.
Continuous weft yarn goes all the way across the width of the cloth: this is
the method when only one color is needed within a row. If many colors are used,
the method is discontinuous supplementary weft, and these weft yarns are
wrapped by hand under the warp yarns, or passed with a shuttle part of the way
across the warp, if the blocks of color are larger. The weaver works with the
back side of the fabric facing up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the bottom photo, she has a wide section of discontinuous supplementary weft,</div>
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so she passes the shuttle through this section of the warp.</div>
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The patterns for supplementary weft are created ahead of
time, and are stored on the loom in the form of a vertical heddle system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a set of nylon yarns that are ‘woven’
in the same pattern that will appear in the textile. </div>
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The ‘warps’ of this system
are actually heddles, each one holding one of the actual warp yarns of the
piece on the loom. The nylon ‘wefts’ are loops, which are attached in place
above or below the working warp. The loops are hung on a frame with nails
above, and slipped onto posts below.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In this manner, each of the nylon weft loops holds the place
of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a pattern row, with respect to the
heddles. The weaver uses the loop to separate the vertical heddles back and
front, bringing the necessary heddles for the current row forward. These
forward heddles are grasped and raised by hand, and the sword is inserted under
them, establishing that pattern row. The supplementary weft is passed, or wrapped by hand, with the sword holding the pattern heddles up. Then the sword is laid flat and the plainweave heddle, operated by foot pedals, is opened and the plain weft is passed.</div>
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In the case of continuous supplementary weft, the weft is passed twice for each pattern row, alternating with a pass of the plain weft. Discontinuous weft is only inserted once per pattern row, but more strands of weft yarn are used.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The sequence of weaving is thus (with images from my half-day weaving class, as well as the weaving workshop):<o:p></o:p></div>
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-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>select the next loop of pattern storage from the vertical system above the working warp</div>
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-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>use this loop to separate the vertical heddles, back and front<br />
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-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>remove the loop and replace it between these heddles, below the working warp (my teacher, Euay Jan, helps keep the vertical heddles separated for me.)</div>
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-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>close the sword shed without removing the sword, open the plainweave shed and pass the plain weft shuttle</div>
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-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>if this is continuous supplementary weft, open the sword shed again and pass the supplementary weft once more, then the plain weft once more</div>
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When the weaving pattern reaches a
mirroring point, the pattern loops are taken from below the working warp and
moved above, to create the reverse sequence of pattern sheds. So at any given
point, you may see a weaver taking from above and storing below, or vice versa.
Understanding how to use the vertical heddles in the right sequence is another
aspect of the weavers’ expertise: the system is not a complete
‘pre-programming’ of the pattern.</div>
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This is the reversal or mirroring point of my weaving in my class. After this, I worked my way backward through the stored pattern heddles.</div>
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Hoping this sheds some light on the process. It's fascinating to watch, especially the hand-wrapping of the discontinuous weft. The weavers working this way have bundles of color hanging next to them, from which they choose the necessary colors (an excuse for two more pretty photos.)</div>
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When I came to Laos, I was hoping to see some cotton fiber
preparation and spinning. The <a href="http://www.ockpoptok.com/create/living-crafts-centre/cat_27.html" target="_blank">Living Crafts Centre</a> being what it is, it did not
take long to coordinate my interests with the needs of the centre. There is a
cotton display that required attention, and women from a major cotton producing
area were due in town. One of these women, Euay Navon*, came to demonstrate the
various steps of the process, and I got to simultaneously document and learn
from her.</div>
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Notice that she is beautifully dressed in all handspun,
handwoven cotton, in several different types of material.</div>
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The cotton, she said, was not the best quality, because it
hadn’t gotten enough sun to dry out after picking. She also showed how it can
get damaged by rain, if the water gets inside the pod as the cotton grows (left damaged, right good).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>The bad parts have to be sorted out, then the
seeds can be removed with a hand-cranked gin (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">eeuw</i> in Lao). This was so much easier and faster than other
seed-removing methods I’ve seen, such as the Ethiopian rolling of a stick
against a stone to squeeze away the seeds.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The ginned cotton is then fluffed up using a bow (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">kâ gong</i>) inside a horizontal
barrel-shaped basket. This is similar, conceptually, to the bowing done in
India by men who go around and re-fluff the batting of quilts. Somehow, the
flicking of the bowstring teases the cotton apart, eventually making it into a
nice, fluffy cloud. Some technique is definitely involved, and my clouds are
not as fluffy as Euay Navon’s.</div>
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The cloud is separated into bits about the size of two handfuls,
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Now we’re ready to spin on a wheel (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">lâ</i>), or technically a wheel-driven spindle, just like the Indian
charka. The wheel is turned with the right hand while the cotton is spun long
draw against the quill with the left hand, as with a charka or a great wheel. Euay Navon makes relatively short
passes, not allowing the yarn to wind on too close to the quill before drafting
back again. She is a patient teacher, and emphasized the importance of pulling
quickly, straight back from the quill tip, with a slight vertical angle.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Trying this, I experienced that ‘leap of faith’ I’ve heard spinners talk about regarding long draw – at times, Euay Navon would pull my hand back for me, and it seemed so fast, and she’d make a cranking motion with her right hand, telling me to keep adding twist. That balance of speed and control is a delicate thing, and I only got it for brief moments before turning clumsy again.<br />
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The spun yarn is skeined on a niddy-noddy (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">piya</i>), of which there is a beautiful
example here at the Living Crafts Centre. I didn’t find it in time to get Euay
Navon to demonstrate, but it has both sets of arms parallel, so they must wind
on straight. Will research further….</div>
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Much of the weaving is done with singles, such as Euay
Navon’s beautiful indigo plainweave shirt.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This was such a treat and a privilege, and now I practice my
newly learned techniques to make the cotton display informative and authentic.
Several of the silk weavers are also accustomed to working with cotton in their
home villages, and they took to the ginning and bowing as soon as it was put on
display. This is a good way to find out who has the knowledge: put the tools in
front of them, and they can’t resist showing their stuff.<o:p></o:p></div>
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* <i>Euay</i> is a respectful Lao term of address, literally meaning 'older sister', which Euay Navon is to me, by just a very few years.<br />
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A short video of this demonstration is on YouTube:<br />
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Is this stunning, or what?<br />
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And some pillows, displayed in the villa. I am definitely developing a soft spot for the Katu weaving.<br />
Probably because it's done on the backstrap - it appeals at a visceral level.<br />
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<br />Tracy Hudsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155247731506601841noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241854430221439113.post-1809743684059363382013-05-26T03:52:00.000-07:002013-06-02T19:36:56.644-07:00Katu backstrap<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's amazing to be surrounded by weavers, and I was especially happy to find that there is backstrap weaving going on here. Keo, shown here, and her sister Mone have come from the south of Laos to work at <a href="http://www.ockpoptok.com/" target="_blank">Ock Pop Tok</a>. </div>
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I had seen the Katu style of textile before, because the <a href="http://tiles.info/community/viewtopic.php?t=1086&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=2c3e32d7f2192cc2d72aa6d1f6b7a329" target="_blank">traditional men's garments have weft twining</a>, and they come up in image searches of 'weft twining.' Three of these loincloths are hanging in my room - I coincidentally got the room decorated in the Katu style.<br />
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There is another beautiful weaving, which has been used to cover a chair. (Photographed outside my room because the room is dark.)<br />
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Needless to say, I've been observing Keo's weaving as much as I can. Her foot-tensioned loom is warped with four metres of cotton which will be woven in a tubular manner, rotating around the loom beams. There are three shed sticks, and two string heddles. The extra sheds control the intricate warp float designs within the stripes (as seen in the chair details and the detail in the last post.) The string heddle is a simple, self-adjusting heddle wound around the warps, with no knots or other tricks. There is a safety line running through in case the rod slides out, because it's not even secured tightly at the ends. Notice there are no yarns holding her other shed sticks in place, and no second cross. She does not get up from weaving without carefully rolling the warp up, from the feet toward her.<br />
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Her feet flex and extend as she changes sheds, and also while she works the beads into place.<br />
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The beads are strung onto the weft thread, and counted out before she passes the shuttle.<br />
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She makes use of a finished piece (with weft twining, see?) to measure the size and number of beads needed for her flower motif.<br />
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The traditional weavings vary in design, color, and density of beading. The beaded part takes a lot more time, since they have to be counted, and worked into place one by one. The piece Keo is working on now is an Ock Pop Tok design, which will actually be split into two along the middle of the warp when it's finished, and used on two different skirts. It's more efficient to weave the two parts as one.<br />
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More pieces from the showroom at Ock Pop Tok, and one of the women working here has a very beautiful bag that is all patterned stripes and no beading, which I need to photograph. I have also <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzdGhyKsMlk" target="_blank">uploaded a short video</a> showing Keo weaving.<br />
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A further coincidence is that the ouerjan design on my Bedu bag, which I'm carrying here, reminded Mone of Katu designs - from a distance she thought there were beads in it! This hadn't even occurred to me, but the effect is very similar.<br />
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Eventually I showed Keo photos of Bedouin weaving in Qatar. I had never dreamed, when I searched 'weft twining' months ago and came up with Katu images, that I'd be sitting with a Katu weaver and showing her imaged of Bedouin weft twining and saying, "See? Same as Katu."<br />
I am living a textile fanatic's fantasy, and every day is full of awe and delight.<br />
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The rainy season began in earnest the same day - rain is audible in the background of part of the video.<br />
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Some random textile input from the last day or so... handspun cotton on spools, which was being wound into a warp.<br />
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And an old woven piece made of cotton, in the traditional 'butterfly' pattern.</div>
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The same butterfly is being woven in silk. This is the reverse image, because the back side is on top while supplementary weft is being woven.</div>
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See? I'm underneath Kiang's loom, looking at the front of her weaving. (The other beautiful weaving is part of her sarong.)</div>
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The multi-colored supplementary wefts are wrapped by hand. Here's another example below, shown from the top (= back side of finished fabric.) It's as complicated as it looks.</div>
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Another kind of weaving being done here is... backstrap!! I have met the backstrap weavers, all two of them, and have spent hours watching the weaving. They're from the south of Laos, and use foot-tensioned looms. More on that soon! For now, just a teaser photo of the typical weaving from that region:</div>
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And just because it's pretty, here's what was hanging in the garden, some silk dyed for weft ikat (<i>mut-mee</i>).</div>
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Already, on the first day, before sleeping at all after an overnight journey from Doha, I was surrounded by textile stimuli. I'm staying at the villa of Ock Pop Tok's Living Crafts Centre, for the time being, which means I'm in the thick of the beauty and creation.<br />
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Weavers are constantly at work all day, turning silk threads into supplementary weft pieces of extreme skill. There are discontinuous (photo below) and continuous supplementary weft works in progress, as well as weavings that incorporate <i>mut-mee</i> weft ikat. I've watched long enough to finally make sense of the vertical heddle storage system (photo above) that keeps the patterns for the supplementary weft handy. I had seen this before but had never quite understood how it worked.<br />
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This is the largest complicated piece in progress. Kiang's hands are a blur as she whips the weft threads through the shed, working her way across nearly a meter of warp width. I also met a backstrap weaver who taught me how to improve my fringe twisting by using a thigh roll (the ancient way of thigh spinning yarn, by the way.) I'm very bad at it, so I've been trying to practice.<br />
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The location cannot be beat - that's the Mekong River flowing by. <br />
Oh, and I've already bought yarn:<br />
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That was all yesterday, the very day I flew in. Which is an incredible experience, in itself. If you ever fly into Luang Prabang, you want your camera handy before the plane even lands.<br />
No wonder my head was spinning so much I could hardly sleep, in spite of the desperate need to catch up on a missed night.<br />
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Today I have observed, filmed, and slightly helped with winding a huge cotton warp, and learned how to tie a knot from the woman who was warping (Yes, a knot. Even for the most basic things, there's nothing like an experienced mentor to demonstrate an efficient way. And when it comes to knots in warps, I want to learn from the most experienced people possible.)<br />
I've also done some cotton spinning on a charka - !! If I knew they had charkas sitting around, I would have brought all my cotton. But that can also be found, I'm sure.<br />
Shared my backstrap weaving projects with Kiang, of the super complex weaving above, who has seen such weaving because she went to an event in Santa Fe and got to meet weavers from South America.<br />
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So far I've learned at least one new thing and made at least one new friend a day. My mind may never settle, but that may be a good thing.<br />
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Here's where I am: <a href="http://www.ockpoptok.com/" target="_blank">Ock Pop Tok</a><br />
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<br />Tracy Hudsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155247731506601841noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241854430221439113.post-66845237672164053922013-05-17T03:30:00.000-07:002013-05-17T03:30:46.031-07:00Yarn happeningsHere's what's going on with me.<br />
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Several different things, as usual. I haven't stopped spinning, I've just had less opportunity to share photos and stories. This is yarn for the third ring of a wonderful, international handspun swap I've been doing. Two different people spun and knit the first two rings, and I add my own third - meanwhile, I spun and knit two other rings that went to two other people, in Cardiff and Washington State.<br />
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The two rings I received are from Virginia and Colorado, and they're beautiful and very soft. I started to knit the third ring yesterday while out and about, but forgot to bring the first two with me - doh! The third ring has to be linked into those two when you join to knit in the round - it's a <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/no-leftovers---russian-wedding-band-cowl" target="_blank">Russian Wedding Ring Cowl</a> (Ravelry link). </div>
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In other news, I'm getting ready to go to Laos for 6 weeks (!!!!) for my conservation degree placement. I will be working with the <a href="http://www.ockpoptok.com/" target="_blank">Ock Pop Tok</a> organization on their collection of traditional woven textiles. Hoping to finish weaving the handspun cotton below, and take it with me, to break the ice with the Lao women. Also hoping the local weavers don't laugh too hard when they compare my skills to their own.<br />
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In case I don't find all the right sticks immediately, I'm taking my 'loom' with me. It looks like this:<br />
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As long as I can get ahold of, or make, some yarn, I'll be ready to weave. I'm not planning to take my little rigid heddle - they make such things over there, and I will be on the hunt in the market, and/or weaving without one, which is my normal method.<br />
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From the department of Learning Something New, I've been attempting to spin like a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XexpKCxWOvo" target="_blank">Portuguese woman.</a> Or like a Greek, Sardinian, French, Spanish, Medieval European.... I've noticed that a huge percentage of images, historical and contemporary, show women spinning with distaff and vertical spindle held by the tip, without necessarily dropping or letting go. It's counterintuitive for someone who learned on a top-whorl drop spindle with a hook, but I'm trying to get the hang of it. I started with a prepared top, and then changed to hand-picked locks, shown below. Everything on that spindle has been spun in this way, for what it's worth. It is not high-quality yarn, I can tell you that. But it's maybe, maybe getting better.<br />
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- spindle made by the same woman who spun the cotton yarn warp I'm weaving, and made the rigid heddle - my buddy Janet who is brilliant but doesn't sell them so don't ask ;)</div>
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Recently I had an impulse spin, after hearing about various kinds of suffering among people who are dear to me. Spun up some healing, in the form of supersoft fibers that felt loving and warm as I spun.</div>
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And one more fun thing: YarnWench wildcard bling batt, spun on an antique Iranian spindle = whee!</div>
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<br />Tracy Hudsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155247731506601841noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241854430221439113.post-21919814239379136142013-05-10T04:02:00.000-07:002013-05-10T04:02:06.502-07:00Spinning from the cloud<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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...has never seemed so literal before. How lovely and inviting is this cloud, made of locks dyed by Laura Mayotte of the prolific indigo vat.<br />
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Tracy Hudsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155247731506601841noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241854430221439113.post-41215185212520875552013-01-25T05:20:00.001-08:002013-01-25T05:20:55.530-08:00OutdoorsThis is the time of year when we can relish living in Doha. Balmy days, clear blue skies.<br />
And I'm finally back to this again - maybe coincidence, or maybe the chance to work outdoors?<br />
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Here's my view while weaving:</div>
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And here's what I looked like (with thanks to anonymous Filipino guy who took the photo):</div>
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A better version of the view, since it's crooked in the first photo. Here's the Doha skyline these days.<br />
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And just for fun, a comparison with 2008:<br />
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<br />Tracy Hudsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155247731506601841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241854430221439113.post-84519254101789575222013-01-15T22:05:00.001-08:002013-02-12T03:15:54.902-08:00Linen. Old.<br />
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Ancient Egyptian linen. I got to look at some, up close.<br />
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Having recently read Barber's description of linen splicing in <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Prehistoric-Textiles-Development-Neolithic-Reference/dp/069100224X">Prehistoric Textiles</a></i>, I knew that the places that looked plied were most likely spliced, and these spots were visible here and there in the woven cloth. There's one going across in the photo below, just below the center of the image. If it works to click on these photos and see them bigger, you may be able to find more splices in other images.</div>
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I found a blue striped border, which recurred in several fragments. As you can see, the weave is warp-dominant - probably because the weaving was done on ground looms (as per Barber.)</div>
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Similar designs were displayed in the British Museum:</div>
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I found some fringe, and a seam, both of which may be part of the "additional tunics" mentioned in the conservation article from 1979.</div>
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That's the view of the seam that was on the inside, as the fabric lay in storage. On the other side, there is some lint along the fold, which I found very interesting - what would the lint be made of? It looks fluffy, like wool. And how old would the lint be? Ancient Egyptian lint? Or storage lint?</div>
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And here's an absolutely perfect selvedge, top of the photo below. It's not folded or anything - it's that straight.</div>
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The bulk of the perfect-selvedge cloth looked like this, with some uneven spaces between warps.</div>
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I could not decide if this was a result of deterioration or distortion from long years crumpled in storage, or if it appeared this way when it was originally woven. (The dark spot up top is a hole.) Anyway, I let the unevenness encourage me, since my current backstrap weaving has a lot of variation in the space between warps.</div>
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There was a wide range of density-to-lightness in the fabrics, with the linen threads also thicker in some cloth and finer in others. Here are two quite different piece, the upper one much lighter and finer.</div>
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Did I wish I could open each of these out and see the full size and shape and speculate more about their purpose? Of course I did! However, I was asked to disrupt them as little as possible, and truly any amount of unfolding risked further disintegration, so this was not the time to sort them all thoroughly. I was hoping that someday someone will, though.</div>
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Here is a knot. Just because it's there.</div>
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And finally, the Gurob sleeves (<a href="http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/textil/dress.html">listed with other things on this helpful website</a>), which I looked at (in a case, with the aid of a museum-provided flashlight/torch) after having examined the other linens. I was happy to see that I could make out the spliced sections on this fabric, which is much more finely and densely woven, and well-preserved. Beautiful seams, too.</div>
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These child-sized sleeves were made separately, to be attached to a sleeveless tunic as needed. This was apparently the custom, since Egypt is usually hot and most clothes were made sleeveless. I'm thinking the sleeves are densely woven because they are a warm layer for the cold season.</div>
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My appreciation for ancient linen production grew immensely that day.</div>
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It feels so nice to putter again. I’ve just had a good hour
or so of puttering about the apartment. When school is on, I don’t have time,
and as soon as the winter break began, I got completely ill with a bad cold.
Then I left town for two weeks, so had not had a good putter in ages.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After being away, it’s like a little ritual of attention,
re-establishing the familiar order of things, adjusting the arrangement of the
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It’s very gratifying to get a bunch of normal, necessary
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laundry, unpacking, making a grocery list. Nothing the least bit remarkable,
but in the week before I left I was too sick to do any of it, which made me a
little crazy, and so just being able to productively putter is so nice.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then I can also talk about all the things I saw in London,
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and a spontaneous demonstration of North Ronaldsay fleece de-hairing in the British Museum atrium, courtesy of Sarah Wroot.</div>
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(Judith Mackenzie and Velma Root - with kuchulus - at GGFI 2010)</div>
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During a week off school, I have been prioritizing fiber work and revitalizing the weaving part of my life. This poor neglected warp seemed almost dead, in spite of its bright colors. It had been lying around collecting dust until I finally removed it from the dining table (ie, loom) not long ago, in order to clean and be free from the guilt of ignoring it. But this break, I tied it up and passed the shuttle and it breathed back to life - the sensation was quite palpable. Now it's off the loom because the weaving's DONE, and it's ready to be sewn into a conservation tool bag.<br />
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The reactivation of my weaving identity coincides with a whole lot of thoughts and supportive vibes pouring toward Judith, shown above. Her teaching studio burned down this week, and if I go into the details of the loss again it may make more than one of us cry, so I will carry on with this account of What Judith Means to Me. I met Judith at Golden Gate Fiber Institute Summer Intensive, 2010, and she let me know I'm a weaver. I'm not a weaver because of Judith, but she recognized it and commanded me to get on with it.<br />
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Judith took this photo of me weaving in her class, with part of my hair tied up in an indigo dye bun.<br />
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My first 250-end warp, with Pony yarn, which included shibori and was dyed indigo like so:<br />
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In that class I also dyed this<br />
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which became this<br />
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because, due to Judith's urging, I returned to Qatar and figured out how to set myself up with a backstrap in order to weave it.<br />
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And that was how it began, the weaving. Because of Judith. And that phrase could be added to each of these things I wove, since she has remained a constant mentor in my mind, even though I have not communicated with her at all since that week at Point Bonita. Thanks to her encouragement, I keep weaving</div>
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The community is responding quickly, a website has been set up, and there will be ways to help. If an auction gets going, you can expect to see some of my handwoven items on the block.</div>
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I feel gratitude to Judith continuously, but now is the time to say it out loud and hope she hears it.</div>
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<br />Tracy Hudsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155247731506601841noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241854430221439113.post-77709192403219574632012-10-05T10:18:00.004-07:002012-10-05T10:18:33.124-07:00A different world<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This Conservation Studies degree is full of surprises. Every day I'm amazed by what we do and the variety of what we're learning. Last week I was cleaning a ceramic tile under the microscope, and the view was enthralling.<br />
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I went to a museum for the
first time since becoming a conservation student today, and I’m afraid I’m
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I used to see museum objects
the way curators and conservators wanted me to see them: as consolidated
things, basically whole, unless deliberately presented as fragments. Now I see the cracks. The fills. The
supports, carefully color-matched and integrated almost seamlessly. Almost.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This probably has something to do with having spent all day Thursday doing this:</div>
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(I'm studying for an <a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/qatar/">MSc in Conservation at UCL Qatar</a>, btw, that's what I'm going on about.)</div>
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(See? I'm in a lab!)</div>
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So I went to the Museum of Islamic Art, all innocent-like, and it was fascinating, both to
suddenly see all these details of choices made by conservators, and also to see
how my own eyes and mind have changed after a few short weeks of training. I realized I will never see museum objects as a plain old museum visitor again.
There’s no going back. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">The ceramics are especially noticeable, because that's what we're focusing on right now. Up above, I'm trying to figure out the best color to fill in the hole in the tile. Finding a pleasing neutral is surprisingly difficult.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">The exciting part is that every object in the museum is part of my education now.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">So far, this degree program = total overstimulation. Woot!</span></div>
Tracy Hudsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155247731506601841noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241854430221439113.post-23632701695322625482012-09-11T10:14:00.002-07:002012-09-11T10:19:40.032-07:00Yarn Gallery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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With the addition of the above work of handspun art, Karen Barnaby's <i>I Am Not the Shy Little Alien You Thought You Married</i>, my collection of the handspun work of others has become worthy of its own gallery space. Insufficient as my photography resources and skills are, I'm attempting to give these pieces such a space here. To fully appreciate Karen's yarn, you'd have to witness <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/fiber-friday/554439/1-25#6">its original context and Karen's own photos</a> (Ravelry link.) This one was not giving it up for me during the photo session, so I only have the one shot. I must say, however, that this yarn makes a fabulous necklace, which I wore to the Jean-Paul Gaultier exhibit at the DeYoung Museum. </div>
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The next piece is a grouped set of three skeins spun by Janet Scanlon. I can't seem to think of them separately at this point. A portion of this is called <i>Medley for A-Muse</i>, and includes handwoven and crocheted additions. It was spun on spindles.</div>
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Next is Naomi Ryono's <i>Wonky Daffodils</i>, which I purchased from her Etsy shop, <a href="http://www.knottynaomi.etsy.com/">Knotty Handspuns</a>. Naomi's yarns have many different personalities. This one is particularly festive and cheery.<br />
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Laura Mayotte's wonderful skein from the "Spin your scraps" challenge remains an art object in itself, although I was sure I wanted to knit it right away when I acquired it in trade. It looks so good hanging on my wall, with its ever-changing palette of twists and wraps. Maybe it should be woven....<br />
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The prized possession below is the work of Michelle Snowdon, aka <a href="http://www.wooldancer.com/index.php">Wooldancer</a>. It is a double chain-ply of the softest, most luxurious fibers: polworth and alpaca and so on, with sparks of fabric and firestar and beautiful beads. This one is also quite wearable as it is, making a lush, cosy necklace.</div>
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Velma!! This yarn is the first acquisition of the exhibited collection, the lovely and talented <i>Melon Baller</i> skein, which makes me smile every time I see it. The vintage fabrics and intricately scribbled thread add delicacy to this wonderfully fat yarn. Found this gem at <a href="http://colorbombcreations.com/">Colorbomb Creations</a>.</div>
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I received a stunning yarn in the Fairy Tale Spin Swap, from Katja Riley (<a href="http://www.madebypixies.com/?lang=en">Made by Pixies</a>.) The story it tells is entrancing, full of gold and glimmer.<br />
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And the latest acquisitions, in addition to the alien yarn up top, are two of the most sculptural yarns I've ever seen. Janet spun this on a supported <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22047329@N04/3559153354/">phang-shaped </a>spindle, and it lives alongside my plants, as another grown thing. </div>
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And finally, Karen Barnaby's world-renowned <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/picto-create/170019/1-25#4">Stone Pile</a> (Ravelry link.) Again, her photo is the ultimate presentation, but here you see how it has taken on a greenish cast in the intervening time. It's a mystery, why it's green, but the yarn is no less marvelous.</div>
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This is not an exhaustive list, mind you, just a curated selection.</div>
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I am getting very close to being able to decorate my whole house with yarn.</div>
<br />Tracy Hudsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155247731506601841noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241854430221439113.post-43851711403289203112012-08-25T11:31:00.001-07:002012-08-27T05:40:51.249-07:00Spaces<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Traveling, spending many weeks back in the home country, visiting family and friends, is always an odd experience. We're displaced, but we're home. I get to reunite with people I've missed so much, but am uprooted from my normal routines and environment. Everything I was doing in Doha is suspended, and I'm immersed in the spaces and lives of others.<br />
This time, the rewards were great, as my travels interlaced two of my favorite fiber people. Below are images from their places, Karen in B.C. and Janet in Oregon.<br />
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Can't beat this fiber storage system!</div>
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Janet's spindle in Karen's house, providing a very welcome spinning interval.</div>
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And the spaces in between, getting from one place to another, were equally inspiring.</div>
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How fortunate am I, that beautiful friends and beautiful landscape are in such close proximity?</div>
Tracy Hudsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155247731506601841noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241854430221439113.post-4265148675825525292012-07-26T15:28:00.002-07:002012-07-26T15:28:21.649-07:00IdyllWhat could be better than a day when I get to do this<br />
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and this<br />
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in this landscape?<br />
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Better pictures of the ride route from Donner Lake to Donner Pass coming soon.</div>
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Meanwhile, more peace and quiet.</div>
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