I long ago stopped trusting yarn to not have knots, tensile strength, or bad spots, regardless of if it is packaged on cones, balls, or skeins. When I am going to use a yarn, I always

Sally, You beat me to it! I’ve also had bad 5/2. Currently, I have a nasty black cone of 8/2 saved to show and let new weavers test. It comes apart with a soft poof instead of a hearty snap. The

I, too, have some vintage 5/2 black UKI pearl cotton that was "falling" apart. I keep the cone to share with folks when I do my "Yarn Sleuth - Identifying that Mystery Yarn" presentation so they can

Does anyone have a source of guidelines for galleries regarding accommodations for textiles submitted for jury and exhibit? There always seems to be space along the walls to prop framed

Your reports of weak black yarn quality are all too familiar. I was told that often black yarns are over-dyed failures of other colors and the double/triple/whatever dye baths are the culprit. I had

I also just reasently had one cone of UKI, 5/2 in black that was braking after I used it as weft in overshot towel weave. I didn't discover how brittle it was until I had already woven most of the

Hi Carol, When I used to teach weaving at a university, I received many yarn donations. I gradually learned to check each cone carefully for dry rot, which causes yarn to disintegrate, even though

Hi Everyone 8/4 rug warp. Black warp has a short life. because of how strong the dye bath has to be used Boil proof warp has a short shelf life because aging the strong dye bath. All true colors

Many years back, I had this discussion with a well known dyer, because, in a painted scarf project, the dark/black stripes I had added for effect,, were constantly breaking. What I was told was.that

I just had the same problems with UKI black. Threw it out

From: Carol Irving My older 5/2 Mercerized cotton is totally falling apart! I will now have to look at all of my cotton. Disappointing! I posted this on FB, many suggested bugs or other vermin and I

Hi Carol, I had some not terribly aged 2/10 navy mercerized that just fell apart in a warp. It had been fine two years before that. I have seen unmercerized black cotton behave similarly. It's been a

My older 5/2 Mercerized cotton is totally falling apart! I will now have to look at all of my cotton. Disappointing! I posted this on FB, many suggested bugs or other vermin and I don't see any signs

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This sounds like a great exhibit and I plan to enter it! Sara Indiana, USA

Dear colleagues, I am sending you the link to the call for entries for Pushing the Limits is a virtual shaft weaving art exhibition curated by Olivier Masson and myself. The exhibition will feature

I did manage to get it working in a virtual XP machine on my Windows 10 64bit operating system. If anyone is interested in how to do this, please send me a PM and I'll try to help. Still fooling

It is surprising what people think about animals. I worked with a woman who thought deer lived in families, and if a hunter killed the buck, the family was fatherless. I have never heard the idea

I've been fooling around with a virtual machine on my 64bit windows 10 machine, but so far I haven't been able to connect to the internet with it. I'm also working on running a virtual machine in

Good for you, Pat. Your taking your Natasha to spinning demonstrations is a brilliant way to begin to erase a bit of the incredible ignorance in our society. What are schools teaching these days?