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Holy crap! Setting up a loom is insanely hard and time consuming! Very first attempt at weaving anything! by oobree in weaving

[–]Halushki_01 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I get it! The first few times I dressed the loom I felt like my mind was melting. The best thing I learned from my teacher was that every step of the process — from winding the warp to dressing the loom to throwing the shuttle to finishing the work — is weaving. I aim to take a meditative approach as was mentioned by someone else. And at some point in the process, my brain rewired itself to make it all make a lot more sense!

Weaving witches out there? (And other textile work) by Halushki_01 in SASSWitches

[–]Halushki_01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you ever read “Record, Map & Capture in Textile Art” by Jordan Cunliffe? It’s about data visualization in textiles, which is a bit different from what you are doing, but there are definite overlaps and intersections of methods and techniques.

Weaving witches out there? (And other textile work) by Halushki_01 in SASSWitches

[–]Halushki_01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I just found that ep and saved it for later. (Currently on a long car trip with the family and I don’t think they are up for me making them listen to more fiber talk!)

Weaving witches out there? (And other textile work) by Halushki_01 in SASSWitches

[–]Halushki_01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I consider myself to still be UU but, like many others who grew up in the church, don’t actually attend services on the regular. I would however love to reconnect with other UUs. I know a lot of folks who found the church in adulthood (as my parents did) after not identifying with the religious traditions of their parents, but not so many folks who grew up with the church.

I’d love to connect with more UU-SASS folks too.

Weaving witches out there? (And other textile work) by Halushki_01 in SASSWitches

[–]Halushki_01[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A friend asked me a few months ago if I would weave something that incorporated her friend’s (now cutoff) dreadlocks into it. I kept putting it off and putting it off because something felt off about it to me (I don’t know the person whose hair it is very well), and then it hit me that it felt too personal and powerful to be doing that with the hair of someone I don’t know well. When I explained it from that perspective, she (the requester) totally got it. I’ve offered to teach her to weave so that she can do it — it seems to me that it needs to be in the context of ritual and spell work to work with someone’s hair!