KALANKARVOJA, KIILTÄVIÄ

Oon nyt tällä viikolla pelannut tätä taas ja pelaan tällä hetkellä. Menin etsimään mun taloon savupiippua ku vastaan tuli tämä näkymä:

Siis kukkia??? Jotka asetetaan katolle???

Minkä hemmetin takia katolla olisi kukkia??

Siis mä kokeilin ja kyl ne kivalta näyttää ja saatan jopa laittaa sinne vähän päivänkakkaroita. Mutta niinku siis miksi?? Miksi tämä on asia??

Aikama has good tutorial videos for warping up and weaving with both simple band heddle and pick up pattern heddle! They are in Finnish but I think the visuals are clear enough even if you don't know the language.

https://m.youtube.com/@aikamafinland

Also this blog has a rudimentary heddle band pattern generator that I haven't had a chance to play with yet but I'd be curious to see if someone else finds it useful

https://withmyhandsdream.com/pirtanauha-generaattori/

It's still a work in progress, and quickly spiraled out of control into a fully illustrated book (oops), but here are a few pages you might find useful that explain how plainweave patterns work with a rigid heddle:

Apologies if the wording doesn't make perfect sense, it's still a somewhat rough draft textwise.

As for the double slotted heddles for baltic pick up, I found this video super helpful when I was first learning how to use them:

A marsh tea flowers  -  Eero Järnefelt  

lili butler reading at the butler house, giverny (detail)