Comments on: Buying Bits and Pieces! http://deborahbee.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/buying-bits-and-pieces/ Rediscovering weaving with the help of an old Bergman loom Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:02:45 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Emma http://deborahbee.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/buying-bits-and-pieces/#comment-91 Emma Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:27:46 +0000 http://deborahbee.wordpress.com/?p=111#comment-91 Hello Deborah, great to read your article, I'm just getting back into weaving and have just acquired a Harris 8 shaft table loom and am in need of a new reed - would you send me a list of your suppliers? I love your samples they are great!!!! all the best Emma Hello Deborah,

great to read your article, I’m just getting back into weaving and have just acquired a Harris 8 shaft table loom and am in need of a new reed – would you send me a list of your suppliers?

I love your samples they are great!!!!

all the best
Emma

]]> By: Jane http://deborahbee.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/buying-bits-and-pieces/#comment-58 Jane Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:16:33 +0000 http://deborahbee.wordpress.com/?p=111#comment-58 Deborah, What gorgeous photos, and lovely weaving! Oh, watch out my dear -- finding weaving doodads becomes addictive for sure! I, too, am retired and just so love knowing that each day is my own. Am so looking forward to more of your stories, photos, and weavings. Cheers, Jane Deborah, What gorgeous photos, and lovely weaving! Oh, watch out my dear — finding weaving doodads becomes addictive for sure!

I, too, am retired and just so love knowing that each day is my own. Am so looking forward to more of your stories, photos, and weavings.

Cheers,
Jane

]]> By: Kimmen http://deborahbee.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/buying-bits-and-pieces/#comment-57 Kimmen Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:26:50 +0000 http://deborahbee.wordpress.com/?p=111#comment-57 I'm really enjoying reading about your experiences with this loom What a neat story. And you obvioudly have the weaving gene- the overshot samples are lovely! Kimmen I’m really enjoying reading about your experiences with this loom What a neat story. And you obvioudly have the weaving gene- the overshot samples are lovely!

Kimmen

]]> By: Sandy Yarrington http://deborahbee.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/buying-bits-and-pieces/#comment-56 Sandy Yarrington Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:28:32 +0000 http://deborahbee.wordpress.com/?p=111#comment-56 Hope I am doing this right! Accidentally stumbled across a picture of Margery Fulleylove working at her loom and have to send it to you if you haven't seen it yet. Please email me at ad7388@wayne.edu so that I can send it to you, as it is a precious photo in one of the WSU collections. Sandy Yarrington Wayne State University Detroit, MI ad7388@wayne.edu Hope I am doing this right! Accidentally stumbled across a picture of Margery Fulleylove working at her loom and have to send it to you if you haven’t seen it yet.

Please email me at ad7388@wayne.edu so that I can send it to you, as it is a precious photo in one of the WSU collections.

Sandy Yarrington
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI

ad7388@wayne.edu

]]> By: trapunto http://deborahbee.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/buying-bits-and-pieces/#comment-55 trapunto Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:22:02 +0000 http://deborahbee.wordpress.com/?p=111#comment-55 Lovely! I'm in awe, Deborah! I found it incredibly hard not to make mistakes with overshot, and the mistakes were almost never correctable by the time I found them. (I comforted myself with a book of old home-woven American coverlets, which are often riddled with mistakes!) Turned-draft overshot (where the pattern weft is threaded as part of the warp) was much easier to weave, though more complicated to set up. I have the same bobbin winder, which arrived in the same solid box. Isn't it fun to use? They go like tops and last forever. And I'm with SpinningLizzy about your storybook worthy pictures. North American robins are not so plump and cute! Hmm. I've read how the yarn systems work a couple of different places--Deborah Chandler? I don't remember the ins and outs, but it's all based on how many yards of thread you get out of a set weight of fiber. Higher numbers = finer thread. Anyway, the main thing is that a US 8/2 cotton is the same as a UK 2/8 cotton; the numbers are just switched around. 2/6 cotton would be called 6/2 in the US. That's a little heavier than an 8/2. The higher number is the important one. The 2 means it's two-ply. I took that scarf book out from the library a couple of years ago, if it's the one I'm thinking of. I really fell in love with the alpaca pinwheel scarf in brown and black. It made me want to try a pinwheel twill, and fortunately my loom (and my patience) can handle the pattern. Glad you reminded me. . . Happy weaving! Lovely! I’m in awe, Deborah! I found it incredibly hard not to make mistakes with overshot, and the mistakes were almost never correctable by the time I found them. (I comforted myself with a book of old home-woven American coverlets, which are often riddled with mistakes!) Turned-draft overshot (where the pattern weft is threaded as part of the warp) was much easier to weave, though more complicated to set up. I have the same bobbin winder, which arrived in the same solid box. Isn’t it fun to use? They go like tops and last forever.

And I’m with SpinningLizzy about your storybook worthy pictures. North American robins are not so plump and cute!

Hmm. I’ve read how the yarn systems work a couple of different places–Deborah Chandler? I don’t remember the ins and outs, but it’s all based on how many yards of thread you get out of a set weight of fiber. Higher numbers = finer thread. Anyway, the main thing is that a US 8/2 cotton is the same as a UK 2/8 cotton; the numbers are just switched around. 2/6 cotton would be called 6/2 in the US. That’s a little heavier than an 8/2. The higher number is the important one. The 2 means it’s two-ply.

I took that scarf book out from the library a couple of years ago, if it’s the one I’m thinking of. I really fell in love with the alpaca pinwheel scarf in brown and black. It made me want to try a pinwheel twill, and fortunately my loom (and my patience) can handle the pattern. Glad you reminded me. . .

Happy weaving!

]]> By: SpinningLizzy http://deborahbee.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/buying-bits-and-pieces/#comment-54 SpinningLizzy Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:27:55 +0000 http://deborahbee.wordpress.com/?p=111#comment-54 Isn't it fun getting all the parts for weaving??!!! I've been doing much the same, and am very fortunate to be in weaving territory abounding in bargains. I'm still plodding away with my twill sampler, and am in such awe of your speedy progress with your Bergman! Your pictures are lovely! I can imagine Robin Hood living in similar woods. And the photo of the bird is completely charming. Isn’t it fun getting all the parts for weaving??!!! I’ve been doing much the same, and am very fortunate to be in weaving territory abounding in bargains.

I’m still plodding away with my twill sampler, and am in such awe of your speedy progress with your Bergman!

Your pictures are lovely! I can imagine Robin Hood living in similar woods. And the photo of the bird is completely charming.

]]> By: Peg in South Carolina http://deborahbee.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/buying-bits-and-pieces/#comment-53 Peg in South Carolina Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:29:11 +0000 http://deborahbee.wordpress.com/?p=111#comment-53 It gives me great pleasure to watch your beginnings. It gives me great pleasure to watch your beginnings.

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