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Thursday, August 24, 2023

A Brand new Saori weaver learns winding a warp, beaming, threading and weaving to beautiful garments , Videos.

 Meet Mahika, she wanted to learn to weave and happend to read about the saori philosphy  and looms and scheduled classes at the studio  in July and and August while she she was back home for the summer from  her university across the country.

She was so very delightful as a student. very creative and artistic ……..

 


winding her first Saori warp
beaming on and threading with the keno table top threader 



winding bobbins with the built in bobbin winder





bobbins ready for the shuttle placed in the bobbin rack



 towards the end of the warp i weighted a few lose warps 
 weaving her shawl

measuring about half way through 


 off the loom all done 


twisting fringes 


 lovely shawl!
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for Mahika's  second warp she wanted to make a garment so i suggested a ruana . 

 here color choices for her second  weaving 

saori free standing warping frame here


beaming on and threading on a table top the saori way. KENZO'S SAORI TABLE TOP BEAMING AND THREADING HOLDER


 12 bobbin  maple rack here 











yardage done


she loves it 



next class sewing into a ruana 






pinning trying on






 ALL DONE!






 peaceful weaving in the redwoods
jill N Sanders









4 comments:

  1. Love everything from the photos to the birth and fruition of the garment and the joy on her face
    Appreciate the work you put into this blog Jill..an act of love for us and for your art

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    1. Thank you fir reading my blogs! My students are so much fun to watch creating new weavings and garments.

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  2. What a wonderful compilation--very inspirational. Now I want to make a ruana!

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