Heddelin, gussets and Field trip o my

Weaver's log, Earthdate 02092019
Five minutes to lunch my teacher fetched me and told me to grab the warp I did some days ago and put it in a loom, we did it quite speedy as we worked in on the lunchtime as my teacher was leaving for another thing after lunch. Then after lunch, I started the heddeling.

On the tent front, I started to add the gussets.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 03092019
Almost finished the heddeling yesterday but I needed more heddles, and those are locked in a cabinet so I needed a teacher to unlock it, Spiking of locking things, some of the weft/warp beam sticks got a nice way of locking them here at school. It's a simple loop that you simply thread through the hole and then loop the loop over the stick.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 04092019
My first real day of this semester as its the first day with all in my class as we only have lectures three days a month. But today we didn't have a normal lecture but a school trip with all the different textile classes there is at the school. Our first stop was at the linen weavery at Växbo. In the summer they have the old flax processing stuff open for viewing, but we only got to see their factory part, not that that is any less interesting.

Most of their looms run on punched cards still.

This is the oldest one, it went out of commission a few years ago as its starting to be too hard to find spare parts. It's from the early 1900 hundreds.

Then after a wonderful lunch, we visited one of the farms here in Hälsingland that is on the World Heritage site list. It had some wonderful wall paintings and artefacts. The last stop on the trip was in a neighbouring town to where I live, The county has sponsored a street art project here.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 05092019
The day was mostly filled with introductions, guided tore of the school and useful information and rules. The main weaving related today was to rank your five favourites in a big pill of over 80 weaves, that we are to have as our first but for me, it will be the second project. What we got will be reviled tomorrow.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 06092019
A lot more weaving stuff today, a lot of basics at first but it's nice to freshen the mind up a bit, then we dove in on plain weaves and its variant of Panama. It took to just before lunch to have the revile of what weave we got from yesterdays exercise. I got this, the image isn't the best as its a photo of a coped image. It is a work shirt fabric from somewhere close to the 19 hundreds if I were to guess. The warp is in 30/2 cotton and the weft is in 20/2 combed wool. After lunch, we were on our own and we were to do what I and my classmate did the first week with the paper cards. But this time we hade a restriction that was we could only pick colours for a piece of fabric we were to bring to class. I managed to forget to bring my pice all three days but luckily there where those who brought several different pieces so I could have one of those.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 07092019
I was at another old traditional farm today with many wonderful textiles.

I will sleep at my dads tonight so I can start early on the tent tomorrow.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 08092019
That early start I talked about above hade en early ending to it as well as I run out of thread and the shops are closed on Sundays.