Llano Fiber

It took me about 4 hours to reassemble my new loom. time to start warping for a new blanket. With the larger size, families will be able to wrap each other in love, comfort and security.

When I first started weaving security blankets for children, my thoughts were of Linus van Pelt, of the comic strip Peanuts. Wondering what a child must feel like having to be in a hospital.

But my thoughts have change a little. Security can also mean, a parent holding their child during a storm, reading a book to one. The comforts of a grandparent hold. Having all your pets with you while watching tv and eating popcorn. Children making tents.

Today my journey has taking me to Seward, Nebraska. What you are seeing in the truck of my car, is a weaving loom that I have just purchase.

Now, I will be able to weave groups of security blankets 60” wide. Wide enough for people to share their love.

Should they still be called security blankets, or is there a better word ?

Charles

Work in Progress.
Inspired by Korean Embroidered Pojagi (subo)
Loom Woven Linen Wrap with Linen Thread Stitching.

This is the cotton that I handpicked in the Texas Panhandle. This is the start of a custom order for a woven bolt of cloth for a Fashion Designer / Clothing Store.

I went two different times to pick the cotton. I ended up picking about 150 pounds.
The pictures show the progression of turning the cotton into yarn.

A New Handcrafted Throw / Security Blanket. Made with Natural Cotton. The weave is based on an old Scandinavian Pattern. I will only be making three weaving’s of this pattern, and then I will not make it again for the rest of the year.

European Linen, Homespun Wild Himalaya Nettle Fiber and a
Japanese Aoso (natural ramie) Statement.

I though that it might good to show an example of the amount of yarn needed for a throw.

I buy my yarn in 3.5 lb cones. Just in yarn for the throws only, I try to keep approx. 21 cones of yarn on stock all the time. For all of my weaving’s, I have about 100 lb natural cotton yarn. For my one of a kind weaving about the same, but in fiber for spinning. Silk from Meghalaya, Belgium Linen, Wild Nettle from the Himalaya, Bast Fiber from Japan and personally handpick Organic Cotton from Lamasa, Texas

Approx. 2.5 lbs of natural cotton yarn is needed to create one loom woven throw.

“What art means to me“

by C. Valentine Kirby

I feel within an impulse, perhaps that divine impulse which has moved all races in all ages and in all climes, to record in enduring form the emotions that stir within.

I may model these emotions in clay, carve them in wood, hew them in stone, or forge them in steel. I may weave them in textiles, paint them on canvas or voice them in song: but whichever I do I must harken always to the song of the lark and the melody of the forest and stream and respond to the color of the rose and the structure of the lily, so that my creation may be in accord with God’s laws and the universal laws of order, perfect fitness and harmony.

Moreover, I must make my creation good and honest and true, so that it may be a credit to me and live after I am dead, revealing to others something of the pleasure which I found in its making,

Then will my creation be Art whether I be poet or painter blacksmith or cobbler, for I shall have labored honestly and lovingly in the realization of an ideal.