A dark blue basin holds a pile of wet skeins of gray wool yarn. The yarn is a high-twist singles that needs to be tamed before I can use it. It's just come out of a scouring pot, and the next step is to dry it under tension.
The same gray yarn, now hanging to dry. I have looped the skeins over a short length of pvc pipe suspended from the ceiling of my studio. Each skein has several stone weights hanging from it. The yarn stayed this way for a couple of days, until it was completely dry.
Two wooden storage spools in my hand, each loaded with a skein of the gray yarn, now nice and smooth-looking. All the twist is still there; I've just quieted it long enough to make the warp. Don't get it wet! (And presumably, don't feed it after midnight?)
The warp in progress. It looks quite chaotic, but is actually organized strand-by-strand for my weaving project. I'm making the warp on the frame of my warp-weighted loom, using a series of pegs stuck into the uprights and 2 card-weaving tablets. This particular loom I build to be 2-sided, and the back side of a different weaving-in-progress can be seen in the background (I call this loom "Janice," haha, get it?). There are some painted, diamond-shaped decorations on the upright where I'm working.
Making a warp. Deets in alt.
#weaving 🧶