Handweaving notes from a small home studio — yarn, drafts, and slow mornings.
Spent the better part of a rainy afternoon sleying a 12-dent reed for a set of tea towels — 2/8 cotton in a soft flax and a dusty sage. The count came out to 320 ends, which is more than I usually have patience for, but the plain-weave borders should be worth it. Note to self: pre-wind the bobbins the night before. Threading errors always find me around end 200.
I've been reworking a rosepath draft into something calmer. The trick was slowing the treadling and letting the weft do less. Beat firm, then rest. The sample off the loom feels like it wants to become a scarf rather than a runner — so a scarf it will be.
Every cone that comes into the studio gets a small index card: fiber, grist, where it came from, and a snip of the actual thread taped to the corner. It sounds fussy. It has saved me from at least a dozen mismatched wefts. Slow craft rewards a slow record.