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Reprise

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

I finally managed to twist the fringes, wet-finish, press, etc. the changing-colors shawl today at lunchtime, so I couldn’t resist posting a new set of photos.  I’ve Photoshopped them in an attempt to get the saturation to where the shawl actually is, but it’s just about impossible to capture the sheen of the silk in [...]

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More pretty pix

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

I got up this morning and took some photos of the shawl.  I have mixed feelings about it.
Close up, the colors are gorgeous.  But when you stand back five feet it looks like a series of stripes, and almost like a plaid in the places where I got the warp wrong and there are visible [...]

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Woven, but not wet-finished

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

If I’ve been pretty quiet the last few days, it’s because I’ve been busy with Weavolution: frantically writing specs to feed to our newly-hired technical consultant.  Also prepping wireframes to go to our soon-to-be-hired graphic artist.  But mostly writing pages and pages of specs.  Not done yet, either, but I’ve made a good enough start [...]

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