CENTERING WITH FIBER: It is all about my INDIGO Dyeing my Saori warp this week ! New students too!

Sunday, August 14, 2016

It is all about my INDIGO Dyeing my Saori warp this week ! New students too!

Some of my past week as I Center With Fiber

The latest from my natural indigo pot I have been using outside off the studio back deck.

It started with winding a 14 yard cotton with silk yarn warp

I used un mercerized cotton and a few pale shades of silk, and silk cotton

here it is soaking it with soap before the dye bath

Going into the dye Indigo Vat

After about 10 min soak it emerged green then oxidizing to the the gorgeous indigo BLUE!

warp drying on the deck railing

stayed up to the wee hours to thread and sleyed the reed using the Saori cross holder and the heddles using the Saori threading holder threading comfortably away from the loom on a table . no beams to reach over or back breaking hours at the loom.

Carried the Saori inside set here to my saori wx60 loom and started to beam on.

Yes there is some crocking of the Indigo dye but I was touching all the 14 yards of warp extensively for a few hours so really not to bad!

well what do you think? do you think the Natural indigo is amazing ?

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Meera and Glen

It was a joy to meet them and share the joy of Saori weaving in a saori try it class

How beautiful and textural there weavings are!

Twisting fringes and tying there woven pieces onto branches from the property love the Battery fringe twister here.

A BEAUTIFUL MORNING SPENT IN THE SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS AT THE STUDIO WEAVING out on the lower teaching deck! WHAT A TREASURE TO MEET BOTH OF THEM!

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Vicki is loading her New Saori loom and weaving bench into her vehicle . She will be back for her threading class once she has the loom assembled.

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Sandy and vicki both have new Saori looms they came for a threading class all set up with there threading stations.

Peaceful and comfortably threading using the Saori threading holder and the SAORI READY MADE WARPS HERE They do not need to know how to wind a warp they can thread once and weave for 33 yards! When they are ready to learn warping they come come back for a learn to wind a warp class.

All threaded now simply hang the harness , place the reed and slip the warp on the the loom tension and weave! I can not wait to see the clothing and other things from these two talented students!

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My student and freind Kori stopped by this week to buy 4 harness for her saori loom . She will weave a twill to sew here own organic california grown indigo ( she grew) and use Sally Fox's organically grown cotton yarn that she dyed to weave her own denim jeans on Saori loom! You can READ HER ECOTONETHREADS.COM BLOG ON GROW YOUR ONE JEANS HERE