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Is that open meadow picture the Lamar Valley in Yellowstone ?
Is that open meadow picture the Lamar Valley in Yellowstone ?
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IMScotty wrote:
OMO, I do genealogy. It is a never ending quest. The answer to one question leads to ten more. My favorite part is 'walking in my ancestors footsteps.' Hope you take your trip to Sweden.
JimBlue wrote:
I'm Comanche and Scot-Irish. Along with a long list of other relatives. My problem has been finding names.
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odd man out wrote:
So would you by chance be Scottish? We visited Scotland a number of years ago chasing down my wife's ancestors. We've taken several trips based on her family history. This will be the first we are chasing my family history. She has relatives all over the place (like many Americans). I'm relatively easy as they all came from the same place. I've already contacted several cousins in Sweden, although some are quite distant (6th cousin, twice removed, for example)IMScotty wrote:
OMO, I do genealogy. It is a never ending quest. The answer to one question leads to ten more. My favorite part is 'walking in my ancestors footsteps.' Hope you take your trip to Sweden.
Yes, that is my office in the pic. When I was in the shop, I planted all that. On Monday morning and thru the week I would walk thru and take care of it and the roses that the old man planted when he put up the building. We both thought that when I went into the office, when he retired, that i would have more time to take care of the beds. . Not a chance, I have NO time. The current owner, just calls her brother in law twice a year to come in and mow it all down.meat wrote:
Wheres that at the shop Lou?
montana mac wrote:
Coach
Is that open meadow picture the Lamar Valley in Yellowstone ?
meat wrote:
Jim, I too am Scotch Irish and my great grandmother was Comanche...her last name was Pennington.JimBlue wrote:
I'm Comanche and Scot-Irish. Along with a long list of other relatives. My problem has been finding names.
CoachLou wrote:
July, we are heading up the Spotted Bear Creek, to spend my 60th on the Chinese Wall. My 3wt. Will be in my pack. My dream trip would be past 3rd meadow for a week or 2 weeks up into Yellowstone river headwaters. But, they really should be horse Packin' trips
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That's really something, I can't say it enough but without the weavers in the world we'd all looking pretty silly backpacking nekid.TrafficJam wrote:
Anyone working on something interesting or learning something new?
I'm weaving kitchen towels.
The pattern is called Log Cabin and has been around a long time. It looks complicated but it's just a matter of how you use light and dark colored threads in the warp and weft. It's really easy and can be woven on the simplest loom with only two shafts (although I'm using four), making this a popular pattern of our ancestors.
Is this an automatic or conventional loom? What's the final size of your dish towels?TrafficJam wrote:
Anyone working on something interesting or learning something new?
I'm weaving kitchen towels.
The pattern is called Log Cabin and has been around a long time. It looks complicated but it's just a matter of how you use light and dark colored threads in the warp and weft. It's really easy and can be woven on the simplest loom with only two shafts (although I'm using four), making this a popular pattern of our ancestors.
You've got some real talent TJ.TrafficJam wrote:
Anyone working on something interesting or learning something new?
I'm weaving kitchen towels.
The pattern is called Log Cabin and has been around a long time. It looks complicated but it's just a matter of how you use light and dark colored threads in the warp and weft. It's really easy and can be woven on the simplest loom with only two shafts (although I'm using four), making this a popular pattern of our ancestors.
jimmyjam wrote:
You've got some real talent TJ.TrafficJam wrote:
Anyone working on something interesting or learning something new?
I'm weaving kitchen towels.
The pattern is called Log Cabin and has been around a long time. It looks complicated but it's just a matter of how you use light and dark colored threads in the warp and weft. It's really easy and can be woven on the simplest loom with only two shafts (although I'm using four), making this a popular pattern of our ancestors.
Dan76 wrote:
Is this an automatic or conventional loom? What's the final size of your dish towels?TrafficJam wrote:
Anyone working on something interesting or learning something new?
I'm weaving kitchen towels.
The pattern is called Log Cabin and has been around a long time. It looks complicated but it's just a matter of how you use light and dark colored threads in the warp and weft. It's really easy and can be woven on the simplest loom with only two shafts (although I'm using four), making this a popular pattern of our ancestors.
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Dan76 wrote:
TJ...thanks for the response. Now I'm reading about different styles of looms.
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IMScotty wrote:
TJ, and anyone else interested in traditional skills, I would like to recommend a magazine for you. Backwoods Home Magazine is a 'homesteading' magazine I enjoy. Ot often has interesting articles on various homesteading skills and farming skills. Check it out.
TJ, you probably have heard of it, but there is a big fiddlers convention in Virginia every year. This year the Old Fiddlers Convention in Galax is 8/7 thru 8/14.TrafficJam wrote:
I certainly will. While doing some research on fiddle playing, I stumbled across an event in Asheville, NC called the Firefly Gathering where you can learn primitive skills, homesteading, and backpacking skills. (That's where I saw the foraging class.). It looked really fun.IMScotty wrote:
TJ, and anyone else interested in traditional skills, I would like to recommend a magazine for you. Backwoods Home Magazine is a 'homesteading' magazine I enjoy. Ot often has interesting articles on various homesteading skills and farming skills. Check it out.
JimBlue wrote:
I used mine to make hot pads for mom and grandma.WanderingStovie wrote:
I had a metal square frame loop loom as a toy. Yours is so much better TJ.
odd man out wrote:
I toured a carpet weaving school in Turkey once. I am fascinated in this ancient technology, but haven't the talent or patience to do it. It is amazing to watch. In between each weft thread, the weavers tie a tread to each warf thread to make the pile. They tie the knot, cut it to length, and tap it in place all in one motion in just a couple seconds. Each thread has to be the right color to make the intricate design. I have a Turkmen runner in my front hall (from the state carpet store in Ashgabat). Even this small rug has a half a million hand knoted threads. Amazing.
odd man out wrote:
I'm thinking my rug would take one person working full time about a month. A full sized rug probably half a year. Traditionally it would have a project for the winter. But usually they are made by teams of women siting side by side each working on their part of the row. Carpet knotting is traditionally woman's work. It takes small fingers. Because they spend so much time is close quarters, the weavers do a lot of gossiping (or so I've been told). There is an excellent book "The World Is a Carpet " by a woman who spent a year living with a carpet weaving Turkman family in a tiny village in Afghanistan. In Central Asia, carpet making is central to the whole culture. You can see why they are expensive. It helps that I have friends living in central asia. She also got me this Tekke carpet seat cushion. At this size they are affordable.
odd man out wrote:
I toured a carpet weaving school in Turkey once. I am fascinated in this ancient technology, but haven't the talent or patience to do it. It is amazing to watch. In between each weft thread, the weavers tie a tread to each warf thread to make the pile. They tie the knot, cut it to length, and tap it in place all in one motion in just a couple seconds. Each thread has to be the right color to make the intricate design. I have a Turkmen runner in my front hall (from the state carpet store in Ashgabat). Even this small rug has a half a million hand knoted threads. Amazing.