Laura Fry 🇨🇦

@weaverlaura.bsky.social

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Weaver. Teacher. Author. Love to talk threads. Threads of threads. Weaving threads of thread and words. http://laurasloom.blogspot.com She/her https://ko-fi.com/laurafry/shop

Warp in the loom. Shades of grey, green, purple and a pop of a pale pumpkin. Silk.
Woven cloth in a ‘snowflake’ design. Weft is ‘energized’ and will develop interesting texture after wet finishing.
Textile with woven roses as a border. When people take the time to make textiles beautiful not just functional
Van in the driveway while fresh snow falls. Snow isn’t very high yet but some is good. Be glad when the days grow lighter.
Loom, taken apart to thread the warp showing the clipboard I pin the draft to, extra lights (because seeing what you are doing is good).
Michelle Boyd’s book Twist with some tea towels I wove using highly energized weft yarn which caused tracking in twill. The corners curl due to the latent energy in the yarn left after wet finishing.
Service badges my father kept after being demobbed. Regimental badges for the Canadian Garrison Regiment.
View from my living room yesterday. Wind took most of the leaves off but the mountain ash still has a magnificent orange red crown. The lights in my window are dragonflies
Western Canada with smoke covering a big chunk of it.
Cover of PMMCs book Values comes with 600 pages.
Map of middle of BC showing poor air quality. Thanks climate change deniers. 😷
Thank you card from Charlie and his team.
#elbowsWayUp. Me wearing blue, sticking my elbow up, way up, supporting the Resistance.
Assembly station for cards. Handwoven cloth with blank inside to use for thank cards.
Rainbow banner made for a new trans person
Napkin woven for a magazine article. It was woven after a sample showed me how I needed to adjust what I needed to do.
Cover of WEFT magazine looking at plain weave up close and personal.
One of my articles in WEFT, out digitally today
Blue/grey and green warp, turquoise weft, on loom so not ‘finished’. Love the magic that happens in the water.
Cd by Grievous Angels arrived.
Current warp on the loom. White on white, cotton warp fine singles linen weft.
Latest tea towels off the loom. Warp made up of pale grey and beige yarn, weft white linen.
Book cover for “Twist” by Michelle showing a plyed yarn against a wooden background.
Pale green and beige warp with white linen weft. Design is snowflakes and snowballs.
Tea towel woven with two shades of beige with a fancy border around all sides.
Weaving draft with snowflake and snowballs motif
Blue/grey warp with white weft. A snowflake twill design for tea towels woven in 100% cotton.
Blue and grey warp with white linen weft tea towels showing the curving line woven into the cloth.
Sports coat for spouse, fabric handwoven silk warp, silk/alpaca weft. Professionally tailored.
Recreated a recipe so I could have treat. Oats, pumpkin, oil, sugar and raisins. The first bar out of the pan. The first bite was pretty darned good! 😁
Blue/grey warp beamed, threaded, sleyed on, ready to tie on and begin weaving in the morning.
View of the front of the loom after after threading, just starting sleying the reed.
Spool rack with tubes of yarn being beamed. 32 tubes of yarn being wound in sections before threading begins. 🧶
Handwoven towels, 100% cotton, machine wash and dry. Warp is teal with accent colours of peach , yellow and more, white weft. Large size. Link in my bio.
My I voted sticker.
Close up of tailored sports coat for spouse.
Been around here for a while…
Two shades of blue about the same value in the warp crossed with white linen weft. Tea towels.
Warp of pale grey and green woven with white linen in a ‘fancy’ twill.
Turquoise chameleon tea towels. Available in my ko-fi shop
Wearing my new mask. #immuneCompromised
View of the cloth on my loom just now. The two sides are different. More blue green one side, more white the other.
Angry lion will chase the bad vibes away?
6 am spring morning with plum tree covered in white blossoms
Spool rack and back of my loom as I wind the next warp on in sections. Beige warp will have weft of natural linen.
18 white bobbin lace stars on a blue cloth on Handwoven blue and white tablecloth.
Bobbin lace stars made with white thread and bead to be hung on Festival of the Trees tree donated by several guilds making the decorations
Bobbin lace star intended for a Xmas tree. 🧶. #WeaversKnot
Bobbin lace ‘star’ half made. Not perfect but it might be ok on a Xmas tree? Silver thread. Might hang a pearl in the centre.
Cyan blue towels with large ‘tile’ design.
Lemon/lime bird in bobbin lace. Friend will get a flock because she loves this colour.
Bobbin lace birdies. Lots of mistakes but learning with each one.
Tea towel in blue and turquoise. 🧶
Blue warp and weft. Hard to see while weaving.
Pricking for a bookmark plus the shortened bookmark I wound up with since I was running out of thread on the bobbins.
Blue warp threaded, sleyed and tied on. Weaving will commence tomorrow. #WeaversKnot. 🧶
Bobbin lace bookmark baby and teal
Peacock and medium blues for warp with navy (left) and a kind of medium blue (right) tea towels. 100% cotton.
Drying rack with freshly pressed towels. Same design, two different weft colours were used.