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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
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So many cotton colors
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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.
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8 shaft table loom
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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.
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Mbira with Kevin
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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
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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!
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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.
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Double Weave
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The weaving is based on a pattern by Ashford Company. https://www.ashford.co.nz/tutorials/weaving-tutorials