Weaver's
log, Earthdate 28102014
Back at school with a big bag of wool, as I didn't really account for how much inlay I needed for this weft. I only spun little more the 900 grams of yarn last semester for it and for the floor loom I used about 550 grams per meter of fabric, I have no idea why I didn't pick it up sooner. So the first thing I had to do was to wash the wool, luckily for me, some really big sinks have been installed in the tannery and I could fit all my wool in one of those. I then squeezed the wool and put some in a piece of cloth and rolled it together and put it in the centrifuge to get as much water out as I could to shorten the drying time, and finally on newspapers on the floor. I flipped the wool every two hours to make it dry faster.
Back at school with a big bag of wool, as I didn't really account for how much inlay I needed for this weft. I only spun little more the 900 grams of yarn last semester for it and for the floor loom I used about 550 grams per meter of fabric, I have no idea why I didn't pick it up sooner. So the first thing I had to do was to wash the wool, luckily for me, some really big sinks have been installed in the tannery and I could fit all my wool in one of those. I then squeezed the wool and put some in a piece of cloth and rolled it together and put it in the centrifuge to get as much water out as I could to shorten the drying time, and finally on newspapers on the floor. I flipped the wool every two hours to make it dry faster.
Weaver's
log, Earthdate 29102014
The wool is still drying so I took this opportunity to work on 3 sheepskins I brought from home. And of course keep flipping the drying wool every two hours all-day long.
Weaver's log, Earthdate 30102014.
Some of the wool felt dry enough so I started carding it with a pair of hand cards. As I didn't like the new card mats we got on the cardbenches from last year. Before I processed it in the cardmachine.
The wool is still drying so I took this opportunity to work on 3 sheepskins I brought from home. And of course keep flipping the drying wool every two hours all-day long.
Weaver's log, Earthdate 30102014.
Some of the wool felt dry enough so I started carding it with a pair of hand cards. As I didn't like the new card mats we got on the cardbenches from last year. Before I processed it in the cardmachine.
Weaver's log, Earthdate 31102014
More dry wool and more carding today I did about a kilo today, I also went from the hand cards to the cardbenche and they worked a lot better now, than when they were new, my guess is that a semester of use have softened the spikes, this changed the speed of this process tremendously as they can hold so much more wool than the hand cards.
Weaver's log, Earthdate 01112014
So after a weeks carding, I now have this wall of wool to spin. It's about three kilograms of wool. And if I need more I have more uncarded from that I washed earlier this week.
Weaver's log, Earthdate 02112014
This has nothing to do with textiles but I just have to show this. This is a big chocolate ball from the looks cafe shop and it is so hefty that I almost felt full.
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