Month: September 2022

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Mbira travels

Mbira with Kevin

Nhemamusasa with Kevin on a Cosmas pitched nyamaropa. Kevin picked up the mbira so fast and played a steady kushaura to play kutsinhira against.
Chipembere played on the mavembe mbira with Kevin. I’ll add more about the songs as I dig back through my notes.
Family talent show 2009 in Ashland. Claire, Kevin, and I played Nhai baba for the family show…
Nhai Baba, a song I learned in Zimbabwe from the Shonhai brothers and played here with my brother, Kevin while I was staying in Ashland for 4 years in part to help with the parents and in part to be near my daughter first granddaughter as my daughter finished college.
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Mbira travels

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.

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8 shaft Mbira travels Weaving travels

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!

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Saori Weaving Weaving travels

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.

There are studios in the US and looms that are simplified to allow for easier changing of the shed and winding bobbins. Here starts the journey.

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Rigid Heddle Weaving Weaving travels

Double Weave

Inspired by my new quena flute from Deniz Dogrusöz, a flute maker from Turkey, I started weaving what would be a case for the beautiful quena. Then Inspired by the weavers of the Andes, I warped my little rigid heddle loom, the only one I have left from my weaving days and started in on what is to be a double weave flute wall hanging.
Notice the pick up sticks that allow for the black warp back weave.
The weaving starts with weaving all of the warp threads.
This is the double weave part that will hold the flute
Weaving two layers at a time. This shows the separate layers.
My first Brooks Bouquet which pulls the two layers together though it doesn’t have to now that I think about it. The black line weaves through both layers and that holds the layers together.
Almost complete. The double weave does work to hold the flutes. I need to wash and block the weaving and sew the flap at the top to hold a hanging rod.

The weaving is based on a pattern by Ashford Company. https://www.ashford.co.nz/tutorials/weaving-tutorials