Nyamamusango raindrop
Raindrop mbira with Steve Berman. Steve works over the kutsinhira before the playing begins. What a treat it was to play those years in Ashland.
Ashford 8 shaft is born
So many cotton colors
The journey continues with putting together the castle with wood screws. I learned about rubbing the screw on a candle to get wax to help with the entry of the screw into the wood. That worked beautifully.
8 shaft table loom
My Ashford 8 shaft table loom came on Saturday in a box with a zillion pieces and screws. How I came to order such a loom is another story best told separately as double weave seems to have visited in the form of a class offered by Jennifer Moore through Lunatic Fringe Yarns. I have already complete a wall hanging using the Ashford Rigid Heddle Loom so the journey continues.
Mbira with Kevin
Taireva
Another from years ago of a practice session while playing mbira with Stephen Berman this time on dambatsoko tuning. This is a Cosmas Magaya teaching of Taireva though he taught us on Cosmas pitched nyamaropa. Forgive us Fradreck for playing on your village tuning. I hope to learn a Taireva from you next time you come to the states. Still it speaks to me.
8 shaft weaving
Weaving for mbira bags on my 8 shaft table loom.
I should have kept the loom. Would love to have it now for double weave!
Saori Weaving
My next weaving adventure comes from Japanese weaving called Saori Weaving. It is free style weaving with a basic structure meaning warp threads and weft threads.
Double Weave
The weaving is based on a pattern by Ashford Company. https://www.ashford.co.nz/tutorials/weaving-tutorials