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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


  These are her hand woven and dyed twill samples she brought to show me!

  This plain weave is for the inside pocket of the jeans ! This is sooo amazing! GOOD JOB kORI!!!

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Peace from the coastal redwoods
Jill Nickolene Sanders










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