After a hectic first half of 2024 I am back home for the Winter. As most of you will know by now, the time I spend at home during the cool months has become very precious to me – and hopefully also very productive – but not always, and this …
The loom with a view is wet and soggy…..
……And if that sounds like a complaint, it most certainly isn’t! After one of our driest Januaries on record since we moved here eighteen years ago, this month has been nothing short of miraculous, and we will be going into Winter with dams full to overflowing which is always very …
There’s new life all around the loom with a View
Well, what can I say? The Winter has been and gone, and in the Lowveld we have simply moved from Winter to Summer without the benefit of Spring to gently transition us from one to the other. Today is sitting up at around 36 degrees Celcius and we have Bergwinds …
Weaving up a storm at the Loom with a View.
I think that I am right in assuming that most of us are looking forward to the first signs of Spring, after what has been, for many people, a pretty torrid Winter. Of course, we get off quite lightly as far as Winter is concerned in the Lowveld, but even …
The Loom with a View
……….is currently empty! For the first time in a very, very long time, I find myself in a situation where I don’t have a warp on any one of my harness looms! I can’t honestly remember when last this happened. My Rigid Heddle looms are well in use I have …
Loom with a view – the next steps…..
It never ceases to amaze me that even in the middle of Winter, when the bush is dry and grey, suddenly there will be a tiny spot of colour bravely peeping through the sandy earth. After the lockdown of 2020, I made a very conscious decision to slow down on …
The view from my loom has changed a little
…. as the August winds have arrived punctually in the Lowveld and it is too dusty and windy to weave on the patio right now! Having said that, it doesn’t mean that I have been idle – in fact far from it! The Rep weave is off the eight shaft …
There’s a ray of sunshine on my loom with a view….
The bumpy start to my current project, has, I have to say, not really settled down – although…. and I say ‘although’ with more than a little trepidation, I feel that I might be beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. The Rep-weave experiment is finally …
It’s been a while since I sat at my loom with a view
…. but having said that, I didn’t realize that it had been quite such a long while! The air of complacency that has prevailed over the past few months, has, as we all know, been shattered as we crash back into lockdown level 4. I had already decided that I …
From where I sit at my loom with a view…..
I am once again stuck at home with not even a glass of wine to lighten the mood! But what can we do? I guess that because I’m a ” glass half full” (even if the bottle is empty and cannot be refilled at the moment) kind of person I …