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Mini-books

These are Quarter Bound leather hollow-backed books. It's a Coptic structure (sewn on cords) and I've been sewing the headbands by hand. I think they are beautiful and sophisticated and a good challenge to make. The ones I just finished are mini-books (they're only 3" tall!!). I did four, but I've only got pictures of three... The fourth is going to be in the Summer Study Abroad Exhibition, which goes up tomorrow.

loomy loom-- the saga continues

So I said I was going to make a rug to work out the kinks in my loom. WHY THE FUCK DOES IT NOT HAVE A LOCKING MECHANISM AND NOW I HAVE THIS WARP STRETCHED AND AM USING A HAIR TIE TO FREAKIN' HOLD IT IN TENSION!?!?! This totally sucks. Ahhh!!! Enough with that I will figure it out in the morning (ugh so tired).

Other thing (not so disastrous thing) I did today was to begin refinishing the beauteous solid wood oak desk I found at a yard sale for $20. Yay. It's a 1940's writing desk, needs to be completely sanded down and re-oiled, and the drawers need new bottoms cut and fitted and glued, but other than that... And, lucky for me, none of that is a problem at all. I want to get this done before returning to MICA (my intent is for it to be my sewing desk when I'm home from school, and eventually it will travel with me to a more permanent residence somewhere).

Last day of internship tomorrow = Bed now.

Loomy loom

This is my beautiful new table loom!!



I just picked it up today. So awesome. 22" weaving width, 4 lams. Has aprox. a 16 treadle capability, which is more than I've every used at this moment. Came with shuttle, threading hooks, spare parts, a rattle, a warping frame, lee sticks, and a gigantic box of wool yarn. Best part is that it's collapsible and folds flat (yay for storage!) Even though the techs in the Fibers department told me I've probably got a floor loom, it's not 100% so it might come with me this fall. I think I'm going to make some rugs (I know, Appalachian folk arts...) just to figure the thing out and make sure it works beautifully.

And of course, this is timed really well for me as I just made a bulk yarn order for yarn for the school year. I should get my linen yarn just in time to start.