Box Blues

This Bag On A Box Business   has got me   again.

I only meant to do some quick testing 
(warp material, box shape and and warping direction)
to make sure I had  my ducks in a row for the June workshop,

but after looking through drawings I made in 2003 
(illustrations to show the illustrator of Kids Weaving what I needed her to draw for the book)
knotted pile suddenly seemed like a good idea.

Remember when you photocopied drawings to make them smaller then taped them together?

Indeed, yesterday I decided that weaving cut pile
on a cardboard box might  be what sunny afternoons are for.

Yarn composition and construction make SUCH a difference in pile texture and surface.

Not only is the loom portable,
​but what a decadent treat to work  from the bottom up 
​and the top down at the same time!

Working in the round (as it were)
provides other sides of the box for soumak experiments.

And then, since I was outside and dressed in blue,
​an indigo pot suddenly seemed like a good idea.

Because if a gal is messing around with texture,
she might as well go all the way and weave with roving.
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How's that for being influenced by contemporary weaving culture?

​That was mostly yesterday.
But so excited I was I to get back to these boxes this morning
that I forgot it was blog day today, and blithely wove in my nightie until an unconscionable hour. 

But now, tra la, I'm about to hit 'post"
so it's another cup of tea and back outside for me.
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Plant peas?  Or Weave?

ps.  
If you want to learn more about weaving cut pile and soumak 
check out  Sara Lamb, 
and her book Woven Treasures 

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