#Weavers Needle

[bignaz8]

East Boulder Canyon as the very last rays of sun strike Weavers Needle. Wildflowers are still blooming in the Superstition Mountains Arizona as temperatures climb into the 90s here. Catclaw Acacia, Prickly Pear cactus, and Verbena flowers all share the magnificent view. Weavers Needle was named after Pauline Weaver, an early mountain man here in the wilderness. The needle is perhaps the most iconic and most photographed landmark in the mountains and is the remnant core of an extinct volcano.

#arizona #superstition mountains #weavers needle #spring

[new--tomorrows]

First Water to Peralta: Views of Weaver's Needle from a bushwacking trans-Superstition odyssey. 26 October 2021.

#First Water #Peralta #Weavers Needle #Superstition Wilderness #Arizona

[hike2moons]

#weavers needle #on top of black mesa #superstition wilderness #hiking #vista #desert #cactus

[rlo-art]

How my web is coming along

Free hand-stitched the Vines. I'm adding foliage to the Vines and it will be done!

#wip #embroidery #needle work #spider web #orb weaver #roses #gothic #traditional art #arts & crafts

[strangecomets]

i need some weaver/fiber mutuals… hello!

#weaving #weaver #weave #fiber #fiber art #fiber crafts #quilting #quilts #natural dyes #natural dye #cyanotype #loom #looms #aesthetic #art #rug tufting #embroidery #needle felting

[bloombird]

*barges in* MY TURN

tell me what do you think some of your ocs will wear this Halloween and can you add some cute facts in there too please

Ahh!

Azure Gig would be stuck on having no idea what colors would he paint himself as. (I had this funny gag that Azure would paint himself looking like Vash the Stampede but ends up looking like Little Red Riding Hood in the process so he went "Welp, Little Red it is then!" and grabs a cloak)

Raif Twinwood would be himself because he thinks he's already scary enough. (Azure insists on him wearing a costume and puts him on colored powder. Now he looks like a Halloween colored Frankenstein wolf. He grumbles abt it but still keeps it)

"Hey look Raif! We're a match! :D" "Barely even a match.."

They both go outside doing Halloween activities like giving treats to kid bots on foot and then go on a corn maze or go to haunted houses. (The last part made Azure scared and screaming but somehow it ends up scaring other human guests inside. Raif is wheezing and crying-laughing on the floor)

Troposcan would be wearing as a vampire bat and be his feral chaotic good self. He'd try to eat all the candy and food! He also hosts games and entertain kids if he wasn't hungry.

Needle Knit made a crocheted Halloween-themed plushies for the kid bots (It's like a crocheted keychain in size)

Weaver Knit would be watching over the kid bots making sure that everyone gets their fair share and stopping mean pranks!! (She's dressed as a ninja!)

Patch-It wouldn't care about the holiday much, but they wear a low-effort costume just to stop Azure and Weaver from pestering them further. "For the Energon Storm's sake, fine! I'm dressing up as a 'bloody' nurse."

Vroomba would be wearing as a ghost in their alt mode and be a menace but in bot mode, they wear as a slasher horror antagonist and scare bots! Cal N. Dar asked them on watching a horror movie with him. They both went and had fun!

Vinespeak would be dressed up as a historical vampire and tries to flirt with Junibond and telling her to live a little. Junibond, while wearing a spy costume, is making sure that no one is hurt at the party but ends up dancing with him. *sees Cognice giving Junibond a nod* "Very well then, I suppose I could entertain you for a while."

Insert Maltley, Azulave, Sweetgreen, Limesec, Neatnol, and Corklauncher finally cheering that Junibond agreed. "Finally!" (Also, they're wearing Halloween colored palettes)

Congeldough would be so ecstatic about Halloween and wonder what costume would she wear. Sleet Starch shyly wears an ice prince costume and then Congeldough loves it and decides to go as an icy royal knight!

Anyway, bonus stuff. Hiraya would be making a LOT of Halloween-themed homemade sweets instead of buying candy to give to both bots and humans. She's wearing a candy-themed witch costume.

#botbots #tf botbots #transformers botbots #birdanswers #answered ask #botbots oc #box au #azure gig #raif twinwood #troposcan #needle knit #weaver knit #patch-it #vroomba #vinespeak #junibond #maltley #azulave #sweetgreen #limesec #neatnol #corklauncher #congeldough #sleet starch

[cryptidcottagecore]

Anddd smth else I've been working on- a pine needle basket! It's messy AF and definitely a learning curve but I'm enjoying myself

#pine needle basket #basket #basketry #weaving #weaver #basket making #slow craft #sustainable craft

[el-im]

hello camelback mountain

#I’m an intolerable person to watch westerns with bc every 5-10 minutes I go ‘I’ve been hiking there’ or ‘that’s weavers needle’ or ‘I got #lost in that wash once’ #captain's log #all the imdb filming locations said was that it was filmed in Tucson but. i recognized a lot #of other places tambien

[hornet-silkedits-archived]

Tags

₊˚ʚ 🧥﹕❝ This is made of pure silk ❞

Request done

₊˚ʚ 🪡﹕❝ No more steps、wanderer、you don't need to ask for anything because I already know what you want ❞

Pretty long tag.... Request accepted

₊˚ʚ 🕸️﹕❝ What you ask for is impossible、wanderer ❞

Request denied

₊˚ʚ 🧵﹕❝ Such useless thing to-... do you want to talk to me? ❞

No edits, mostly conversations

₊˚ʚ 🪡﹕❝ A needle will always have to be prepared、especially for a fight ❞

Rambles

₊˚ʚ 🧵﹕❝ Another alive weaver? ❞

Promo

₊˚ʚ 🕷️﹕❝ These are old weavers ❞

Mutuals

₊˚ʚ 🧵﹕❝ Everybody needs a new cloak、wanderer、especially me ❞

Self indulgent

₊˚ʚ 🕸️﹕❝ Show yourself、wanderer、or prove yourself enough to me that you have no ill intentions ❞

Anons

₊˚ʚ 🕷️﹕❝ Oh... It's the «insert name» ghost ❞

Named anons

#₊˚ʚ 🕸️﹕spider's web #₊˚ʚ 🧥﹕❝ This is made of pure silk ❞ #₊˚ʚ 🪡﹕❝ No more steps、wanderer、you don't need to ask for anything because I already know what you want ❞ #₊˚ʚ 🕸️﹕❝ What you ask for is impossible、wanderer ❞ #₊˚ʚ 🧵﹕❝ Such useless thing to-... do you want to talk to me? ❞ #₊˚ʚ 🪡﹕❝ A needle will always have to be prepared、especially for a fight ❞ #₊˚ʚ 🧵﹕❝ Another alive weaver? ❞ #₊˚ʚ 🕷️﹕❝ These are old weavers ❞ #₊˚ʚ 🧵﹕❝ Everybody needs a new cloak、wanderer、especially me ❞ #₊˚ʚ 🕸️﹕❝ Show yourself、wanderer、or prove yourself enough to me that you have no ill intentions ❞ #₊˚ʚ 🕷️﹕❝ Oh... It's the 🌷melty🎀 ghost ❞

[davideragland]

Weaver's Needle (Arizona, USA)

#desert #american southwest #arizona #adventure #photography #phoenix #Weaver's Needle #wandering the land #landscape photography #art #photographers on tumblr #photographers of tumblr #original photographers #mountains #sky

[floatingoverwicklow]

Weaver

#sew #sewing #sewing machine #sewing machines #needle #needle and thread #seamstress #seamstresses #dressmaker #dress makers #dressmakers #dress maker #craft #crafting #crafters #spinning wheel #spinning wheels #weave #weavers #silver #silvers #sterling silver #necklace #necklaces #silver necklace #silver necklaces #sterling silver necklace #sterling silver necklaces #jewelry #jewellery

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

Today I am thinking about weaving.

I can knit and crochet, but those crafts didn't exist in Roman times. Any historically accurate Roman cloth must be woven. So when a little potholder loom jumped into my shopping basket for 50 cents, it felt like a sign I should learn.

One potholder that was 50% yarn and 50% weird gaps later, I looked up a tutorial, and realized why the damn thing was 50 cents. I needed a better, more adaptable loom. And, because I am a cheapskate and slightly loony, I decided to make one instead of buying it.

So, how does this thing work?

First, you string the warp threads up and down, around the pegs. Here, I made a zigzag shape. Then, you use a needle or shuttle to weave more yarn over and under the warp, horizontally, back and forth. This produces woven fabric.

Some looms weave from the top, some from the bottom. This Greek urn shows two weavers working from the top. The left weaver uses a rod to compact the woven fabric upward, keeping it even and sturdy. The right weaver is passing an oval-shaped shuttle through the warp threads to form another row.

Most Roman looms would have looked like this, with the finished cloth at the top. Unlike my looms, these are warp-weighted. That means you keep the warp yarns taut by hanging weights at the bottom, rather than through a bottom row of pegs.

Warp-weighted looms also have a big advantage over my little potholder loom: you can easily create multiple sheds.

A "shed" is a temporary gap between lifted strands and non-lifted strands. Instead of having to go over and under each strand individually, you raise the entire shed, then pull the shuttle or needle straight through. This saves lots of time! Then, to weave the next row, you close the shed, lift up a different set of threads to create a new shed, and send the shuttle/needle through the other direction.

On a warp-weighted loom, the sheds are opened by loops called heddles (H), which are attached to a heddle rod (G). When the rod is down, shed (1) is open (middle diagram). When you pull the rod up, shed (1) closes and shed (2) opens instead (right diagram). Most warp-weighted looms also have a pair of forks you can rest the heddle rod on, to free your hands.

Here, there are three heddle rods and sets of forks, the heddles are white, and the warp thread is red. This gives you four different sheds, and the potential to weave very complex patterns indeed. Not bad for a device invented over 6500 years ago!

I liked the multiple heddle-rod design so much, I tried incorporating it into my DIY loom, too. I've tested both yarn and paperclips as heddles:

I actually got both sheds and heddle-rods working, too. Which is pretty cool for a lap loom - every other lap loom I found only has one shed, so you have to go over-under the individual threads on alternate rows.* More time-consuming. However, the sheds here are narrow, and I'll need a smaller and smoother shuttle to pass through them smoothly. This wouldn't be an issue on a warp-weighted loom, where the warp hangs freely downward, and can move more flexibly with the heddles.

Anyway. I may get a "real" loom at some point, but I wanted to build one first, and I think it gave me more appreciation for just how resourceful ancient weavers were. They created technology, clothing, and artwork out of very basic materials, and civilization depended on these skills.

Now, I need to go finish the...whatever the hell it will be. Big thanks to Wikipedia and to the lovely Youtubers who make this craft easier to learn. I think it'll be a lot of fun.

(*Edit - found out a rotating heddle bar can make two sheds on a lap loom! Exciting!!)

#jlrrt essays #weaving #textiles

[homesweetgoodneighbor]

Quick reminder on why it is never a good idea to piss off a fiber artist:

Go ahead. Insult a crocheter. Say their craft is somehow inferior. Remember a crocheter can use their hooks go Ancient Egyptian on you and rip your brains out through your nostrils, except we won't bother to mummify you first.

Knitters will not stab you with their needles because some of them are rather fragile, but they will knit you a fetching sweater...a CURSED sweater...THAT cursed sweater...and purposely make it about 5 sizes too small and strangle you with it. It will hurt, but you'll look amazing.

Embroiderers and any sort of seamsters use a sharp object to stab something thousands of times to make it pretty. Do you want to be made pretty? Do you? We WOULD REALLY LIKE TO MAKE YOU PRETTY...

Weavers can make your death shroud from scratch. We're talking sheep to fabric. All they'll need to do is make sure you are in the proper state to be buried. Know that it takes only a moment to make that happen.

Spinners make what is varying thicknesses of rope. Do you know what can be done with rope? Do you really want an answer to that question?

Here is the True Golden Rule: Thou shalt not demean those who work the fiber and expect mercy, for we shall have none. Your destruction will be made of ten thousand knots and each a curse upon your name and your house.

And, we heed the call to protect one of our own with the ferocity of angry bees.

Just be nice to your local fiber artist.

Chances are you'll get something warm out of it.

#fiber arts #crochet #knitting #sewing #hand sewing #weaving #spinning #embroidery

[hike2moons]

#mountains #superstition wilderness #boulders #hike with me #trail #battleship mountain #weaver's needle #desert landscape

[skylarkspinner]

fiber art adventures in egypt

I recently got back from a trip to Egypt & finally got around to organizing some pictures to share. One of the things I was most excited about was seeing what I could find on fiber arts and textiles.

Dropping everything under a read more, 'cause this will be a long post haha

first visit: the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC)

At the time of visiting, they had a special textiles exhibit. It covered Pharonic Egypt all the way up to modern times, although I only had time to check out the dynastic & a bit of the Coptic portion of the exhibit (which was what I was really hoping to see anyways)

Was super excited to see this diorama in person. I knew about it but had never seen good pictures of it. From the little I've seen of ancient Egyptian spinning, spinning with two spindles seems to be the norm rather than a master technique? It also shows up in tomb art, which the exhibit also shared:

They also used a different fiber preparation (splicing to create a rove of fiber, no traditional drafting to my understanding) so that probably made a difference? Regardless I really want to see if I can replicate the technique, especially because their spindles look so similar to modern spindles??

I took so many pictures of spindles, guys, and I fully intend to either have a few replicas made or to learn to make some myself. Also, although they were unlabeled... I'm pretty sure those are beaters for weaving? That was a bit of a trend with this trip, so much stuff was unlabeled :( I would've killed to at least get some date estimates for some of the stuff they had on display. I was nerding out in here though, and my family took a few pictures of how excited I was getting. A bit embarrassing, but eh haha

The exhibit also had a section on natural dyes used with a fun visual;

There was several diagrams specifically describing each dye source, but in the interest of not overloading on pictures I'll just list them out. For blues; woad, Yellows; turmeric, safflower, saffron, or yellow ochre; reds; madder, henna, pomegranate, and kermes. I originally thought kermes was another way to say cochineal, but it only seems to be distantly related.

next visit: Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Center

A small art center dedicated to hand-weaving wool and cotton tapestries. All of their work was museum quality & awe inspiring!!

Was even invited to their back rooms to watch a few of their weavers working; no I don't have room to put a room-sized loom anywhere but heck do I want one now

Our guide that took us through talked a bit about the natural dyes they use (all of their dyes are dyed in house with what they grow in their dye garden!!!) and got excited to hear I was also interested in natural dyes! He seemed a bit disappointed I'd never worked with indigo and. while indigo scares me, I'll take it as a sign that maybe I should try some time this year haha.

final visit; the Egyptian Museum

we really had to rush through this one which was a huge shame because it's packed full of artifacts. Also, the lighting in there is atrocious, so apologies for the not great pictures ahead.

They had a fascinating display of textile tools, more than what the NMEC had;

(Hand for size reference) I want all of these spindles! So badly! But a few of them look so much like a few of the spindles I own already?? A few of them had a spiraling notch, that's so cool? But also, what's going on with the one with two whorls? I have no idea. I'm fascinated.

Look at these whorls!! Although again, I'm a bit confused; the lack of labeling strikes again. Unsure why some of these "whorls" have two holes, or what the metal object with the wooden handle is. The display implies sewing needles, and some of them do look like it, but others.... really don't look like sewing needles. I'm absolutely enchanted by this little whorl though. I think it has birds on it?

More objects that I'm baffled by- the signage doesn't really indicate what some of this stuff is, if it's even known. Also confused by the object wrapped in white string in the right pic; it looks like a distaff but to the best of my knowledge the (ancient at least) Egyptians didn't use distaffs. It probably popped up in later times and was put in this display since it was still relevant, but I'm still not sure.

I have so many more pictures & thoughts but I'll save those for more specific future projects. I've been doing research outside this trip on ancient Egyptian spinning techniques and desperately want to go deeper into that, this trip just solidified how excited it makes me. If you made it all the way through this, many thanks for reading!

Bonus; look at this ancient linen 🥺

#hand spinning #archaeology #extant artifact #weaving #fiber arts #long post #letters from skylark #sorry for the overall low quality images in this post. Got a new camera and wasn't the best at using it this trip #also the raw image files were huge so I heavily downsized them to make sure this post wasn't a beast to load #would be happy to share the raw images if desired though

[rosemorningstar]

Alright so

Boethiah “the font of inspiration” who calls upon mortals to leave their mark upon the world no matter the form.

Hircine “who is half the conscience of men” meaning the half of mortal minds that follows instinct and the drive for survival.

Malacath “who speaks all languages sideways” meaning he is a universal entity whose name and purpose has become distorted over time. Alternatively, he twists words to inspire rage.

Mehrunes Dagon “whose mistress is the blazing sun” meaning he was created by and serves the will of the Magna Ge who brought him forth.

Sheogorath “the comforter of men” meaning he who facilitates dissociation or a break from reality; taking mortals away from the pains of the world via madness. It’s a comfort to be free of reality but the side effects vary.

Molag Bal “whose breath is most foul” meaning the commands he speaks upon the mortal realm are palpable yet undesirable; a domineering root of suffering.

Namira “whose works works endure forever” meaning her design for existence is inescapable and inevitable aka entropy and decay.

Mephala “who threads the needle with the hair of wives” meaning she manipulates the bonds of loyalty to her ends.

Clavicus Vile “who always answers” meaning he’ll make a deal with anyone but the terms won’t necessarily be fair.

Nocturnal “whose touch is mink” meaning her blessing is soft, concealing, and expensive to attain.

Peryite “who’s foundation is falling rock” meaning his power is based in the same forces that move erosion and the passage of time. Incremental but nonetheless potent.

Azura “the rim of all holes” meaning her power is what facilitates transformation and dramatic change on a singular level. The movement of an object or being to dramatically different circumstances. A goddess of exodus and transmutation.

Meridia “who contains the plenum” meaning her sphere is one of wholeness and abundance. Something she offers at a high price.

Hermaeus Mora “who holds the paper to the light” meaning he reveals the hidden truths beneath the surface.

Sanguine “who tastes the shaven fruit” meaning he consumes mortals at their most vulnerable; when they’re inebriated or at the height of their pleasure.

Vaermina “weaver of the panoply” meaning she designs mortal delusions; the fantastical fears we react upon in reality.

#Daedric princes #tes #the elder scrolls #acceptable blasphemes