crying yes risk joy

Joy, 26, in the raw wind of the new world.

[icaseybaybee]

[weltenwellen]

For years I lived Maggie Smith

[elethart]

Finally some quality content in my portfolio

[whaile]

late summer / early fall thoughts

[plains-flora]

june 6, 2019

[beelur]

[soymoss]

starling

[huariqueje]

Orange on yellow - Rutger Hiemstra. , 2026.

Dutch  b.1975- 

Oil on panel , 27 x 23 cm.

[suricata-uwu]

[ID: a realistic painting of a plate of orange slices placed on a yellow tablecloth. End ID]

[vintage-ukraine]

July by Ihor Popov, 1976

[bigbluefishi]

Eowyn 🐴

[fravery]

Art by Kevin Kia

[iamasalmon]

the thing about fiber art that nobody tells you about is that every single kind of fiber art is a gateway drug to other kinds of fiber art.

[aeide]

test weaving of penelope's tapestry on the chiusi skyphos:

reference:

there are some adjustments I need to make for tension, but I'd like to make the next version into a header band for a warp-weighted loom so I can try weaving the whole pot, including telemachus and penelope.

[aeide]

progress?

the proportions on the header band have improved, but I think I maybe should have doubled the weft threads for the warp.

also if anyone wants to knit the heddles for me, please be my guest. the last time I tied on heddles, I put the bar in the wrong place and had to redo the whole thing.

[aeide]

in true penelope fashion, I may need to unweave and start over, but at least now I've got the loom weights and heddles in place.

I started weaving the spear, penelope, and the right border via double-weave with the intent to leave the remaining warp threads unwoven (as they would be on penelope's loom on the pot), but predictably this is giving me tension problems. I either need to increase the loom weights or just weave the black layer and leave the orange warp threads unwoven, and then switch colors once I get to the heddle bars in the drawing, with the black warp threads floating on top. (I guess weft-faced tapestry would be a third option, if I add a ton more tension.)

either way, this is going to take me the full three years of penelope's stratagem, or perhaps the entire twenty years of odysseus's absence, primarily because clearing the sheds takes a monumental effort each time with this double-weave setup (which I'm not even sure is how it's supposed to be done, I kind of set it up based on vibes and what I thought made sense from floor loom setups).

[aeide]

I have 999 problems and warp tension is 997 of them (the other two are my selvedges).

[aeide]

row by row she grows

[fishonthetree]

@thefibrarchaeologist

[thckskulll]

[wombwarriors]

[oilpalette]

Monsieur Noir in the Yellow Room, 2026 by Elena Polishchuk (Russian, b. 1978); Oil on canvas, 60×60cm

[prettycolors]

[thegroovyarchives]

Vegetables Illustration From Carnation's Family Favorites by Mary Blake, 1956.