just let me weave

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the proportions on the header band have improved, but I think I maybe should have doubled the weft threads for the warp.

I started weaving the spear, penelope, and the right border via double-weave with the intent to leave the remaining warp threads unwoven (as they would be on penelope's loom on the pot), but predictably this is giving me tension problems. I either need to increase the loom weights or just weave the black layer and leave the orange warp threads unwoven, and then switch colors once I get to the heddle bars in the drawing, with the black warp threads floating on top. (I guess weft-faced tapestry would be a third option, if I add a ton more tension.)

Mantle, Peruvian, Paracas-Nasca, South CoastEarly, Intermediate Period, Phase 1AD 1-100, Peru, South Coast.

Design: rows of shaman figures with heads thrown back, worked solidly with wool.

Camelid fiber plain weave embroidered with camelid fiber in stem-stitch, 142 x 241 cm (55 7/8 x 94 7/8 in.)

The site sits near Søften in eastern Jutland, about 10 kilometers north of modern Aarhus. Excavations by the Moesgaard Museum show a planned production area instead of a normal farming village. The settlement covered at least 100,000 square meters. Most of the work focused on making textiles, though other forms of handwork also took place there.

I decided to try out whittling this summer because I am an adult so no-one can tell me to stop playing with knives recently bought a hair stick from a ren faire and found using it much kinder on my fine hair than a regular hairtie.

I made it from an apple tree that grows in front of my great-grandmothers house where I spend my summers. I like the idea of being able to wear my favourite places as self-made items, so maybe I'll make more of these in the future.

I decided to try out whittling this summer because I am an adult so no-one can tell me to stop playing with knives recently bought a hair stick from a ren faire and found using it much kinder on my fine hair than a regular hairtie.

I made it from an apple tree that grows in front of my great-grandmothers house where I spend my summers. I like the idea of being able to wear my favourite places as self-made items, so maybe I'll make more of these in the future.

Skull of a two-faced bottlenose dolphin prepared by Enault & Auclair-Kraniata osteology.

Mourning Ring

c. 1770-1830

Gold, jet, glass, hair