365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Monday, February 15, 2021
Snowflakes
Day 125: After I published the draft for my maple leaf design to illustrate the disproportion between squares on paper and elongated warp threads in the actual weaving, a friend said he'd like to see the snowflake I had only described. I counselled him to patience, knowing what was coming. And come it did, a blanket roughly 8-9 inches thick, demanding a shovelling exercise in order to reach the bird feeders. Most of it is still out there, although it's turned soggy and is busily compacting into a layer of ice. Meanwhile, I'm staying warm indoors, weaving merrily away at three different types of loom, checking my supply cupboard occasionally as I wonder what will give out first, COVID or my supply of fibers. I'm amazed at how large a dent I've put in the stockpile of 8/2 cotton. So for you, Rob, the snowflakes. See how the design stretches lengthwise when translated into thread when tablet-woven? I could weave 1:1 on the floor loom, but because tablet-weaving is warp-faced, it has to be thought out in something closer to 3:1 proportions (the squared-up snowflake is actually 14 x 5 in the draft).
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draft,
snow,
snowflakes,
tablet-weaving,
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