More Diamonds and Triangles

I've now completely re warped since my HNC, so it's nice to do something completely different though I didn't really expect my new warp to be quite such a departure. I had a nice ochre yellow and some lovely purples and to use a single colour of each one would have used up all of that colour. So in moment of what seemed like inspiration at the time and what seems "oh my" now, I decided to do a striped warp. This is the result -

It's a bit of a bobby dazzler.

I decided to wrap the warp around paper which is another departure for me as I usually use sticks, the reason I changed is that sticks add quite a lot of bulk to the warp and there's not a lot of space between my two beams, so I can only beam a short amount of warp before the two beams rub together, not good. But I have been plagued by tension troubles, it's so frustrating, I've got no problems with the top layer which I did with sticks so it must be the paper and me not able to maintain the tension when beaming - never again.

The whole thing is growing on me and I'm not disappointed, it's nice to see the blocks develop.

House for an Art Lover

I had a quick walk round Bellahouston Park today, I didn't have time to go inside the House for an Art Lover built to a Charles Rennie MacIntosh design, but I took a few photo's of the exterior.

It's quite similar to the Hill House as perhaps you would expect but it feels more massive and solid lacking perhaps the delicacy of the Hill House. 

I don't know anything about this monument except it seems to be dedicated to peace which was ironic as it was assembled in 1938. I say assembled as it incorporates stones mainly from ladies organizations who I presume subscribed to get their stone inscribed and then sent off. I was intrigued by the one from Keighley inscribed "Bronte Stone", given the amount of time I've been in Haworth recently I'd love to know a bit more about it.

The diamond pattern double cloth is off the loom and has been washed but has not been tidied up or pressed. That's the end of my HNC warp, so the end of an era and beginning of a new. I'm pleased and saddened in equal measure, though perhaps I won't miss wool singles in a warp - achievable but not necessarily fun !