Journey Loom-1
April 24, 2008 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under hand spinning and handspun and spinning, small loom weaving, weaving and handweaving and looms, yarn crafts
I am so pleased! My new Journey Loom has arrived!
The Journey loom is a lovely small frame/tapesty style loom that was designed by Susan Barrett Merrill. The loom came to her in a dream and she’s been working with her husband to create it in many ways for a number of years.
The first thing that struck me when I put it together was that it looked so much like the wall dollhouses that my dh, Jim, makes me!
The second thing that just blew me out of the water, was reading the chapter in Susan’s book, Zati, The Art of Weaving a Life, about Grandmother Tree. Why did it have such an impact on me? Because I have also written about Grandmother Tree in my book, Soul Mate Dolls: Dollmaking as a Healing Art. I love the synchronicity of that.
I didn’t start weaving instantly…. I decided that I needed to spin some special yarn and complete a doll’s head that I’ve been working on for awhile.
I’ve posted pics of the doll head .
(Jim finds the doll head to be really ‘dark’ …. he thinks it looks really fretful. Well, the truth of the matter is, I sculpted it when I was making the Cornstarch Clay worry dolls, and ‘worried’ energy certainly did come through with it. I put all the worry into it, instead of the worry dolls. )
And photos of spinning the yarn for the doll
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