Liam Blackburn

Sideview of a broken screw, imbedded in a component of a flying shuttle mechanism.

Photo of the piece after drilling out the broken screws - the remnants of the screws are seen on the righthand side.

Photo of the component after re-drilling, showing a through hole where the broken screws were previously.

Photo showing a bolt in place of the original broken screws.

Something a bit different! https://buff.ly/3Qhfe32 had a loom issue, a pair of screws had sheared off on this component of her flying shuttle mechanism. So, I drilled out the screws, and re-drilled for a bolt instead. This really shouldn't shear off!
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#loomrepair #somethingdifferent #fibresky

I really do love seeing them all laid out and organized like this - there's something satisfying about it.

Photo depicting 8 yarn samples wound on individual cards, numbered 1 to 8. All are fairly pale mid tones.

Photo depicting 8 yarn samples wound on individual cards, numbered 9 to 16. They range from pale mid tones to light browns.

Photo depicting 8 yarn samples wound on individual cards, numbered 17 to 24. The colours range from bright yellow to brassy, with a few pale neutrals in the mix.

Photo depicting 3 yarn samples wound on individual cards, numbered 25 to 27. The colours are all similar brassy, tawny hues.

All the tests that went into the two colours for the recent DKW Junior reupholstery job that @uppercanadaweaving.bsky.social is working on. 27 tests in total, so not too bad (I did 45 for a radio fabric a few years ago). They do make satisfying pages in the sample binders!

#dyesky #yarnsky

Photograph showing two colours of hand dyed cotton yarn put up in skeins, lined up in a dark brown basket which is seated on a woven mat.

Scaled up batches for two colours @uppercanadaweaving.bsky.social is using to make upholstery fabric for a DKW Junior car. These hues are based off of an original swatch of fabric, and lots of testing went into getting a match.
#bespoketextiles #smallbatchdyer #fibrearts #yarnsky

photograph of six small skeins of yarn lined up on a reed mat, placed on some snow as a backdrop.

Purples made by overdyeing indigo - you can see how drastically the shade of indigo effects the colour. I'm getting closer to the mark, but we're not there yet. #naturaldyes #smallbatchdyeing #yarnsky

Well I guess it's not my first midtone rodeo at this point 🤣

Photograph showing woven samples at the top (original on left, attached to original sample card) and recreation swatch on the right, made using test colour skeins. Below that, two skeins of yarn lay across the table, one goldish and one quite pale. Atop them are two weaving pirns wound with yarns from the original colour tests, for comparison.

A photograph at 10x magnification of the original sample fabric I'm working to match.

Pictures from a recent meeting with @uppercanadaweaving.bsky.social‬ to compare scaled tests against original samples and the swatch we have for recreating this upholstery fabric. I do scaled tests when colour matching is a primary focus, to make sure things will turn out right - these looked good!

Love seeing these yarns transformed into something so beautiful and useful!

Hello World!
Hope to find fibre folks here, and keep documenting my hours at the dye pots.