Just back from a trip to Wales. A week of walking. And a morning in the Ruthin Craft Centre, looking at the Nuno exhibition http://www.ruthincraftcentre.org.uk/08artists.html which was very inspiring. 

So, it turns out that, if you print on a lambswool warp with procion dyes with soda ash, the wool falls to pieces. Fortunately the silk warp seems to be fine and is looking fine on the loom. And David, our fab technician at NUCA, really kindly made me a new lambswool warp which I will put on the loom tomorrow.   

Back to college. This week I am weaving. But weaving is not all weaving. I made up a warp last term, before the holidays, half lambs wool, half silk bourette. And the past couple of days have been about prepping it for printing and painting on the warp. This is now done and today I am looking forward to putting it on a loom. Well, kind of looking forward to it. There is something quite relaxing and meditative about threading up a loom. But, after printing it needed washing, and now, oh boy, some tangles, and then some more tangles. So my day ahead will be combing out threads.