a land of Tibet

Through My Eyes

With work in the Grove and Tibetan events in NYC I haven't been able to work on the sculpture of Tara Drolma except as usual to continue to

keep the clay moist. I thought I'd bring us something I've been doing for our outreach events...

This is a small frame loom made out of items you can get in a hardware store by wandering through the aisles. Everything together costs about 10$

so it's easy to afford. You can recognize some similarities to the backstrap loom but this is a lot easier to set up because it doesn't need to be tied to

anything and the tension is maintained by the frame.

Also the heddle rod that pulls up one of the sets of warp threads that run the length of the loom

uses green threads! Here I'm stringing up the heddle rod as I do the backstrap loom.

This makes them easier to see which makes it easier should they get tangled. We can see them in a length of the finished cloth; it looks

rather pleasant! What I do now is to sit at the outreach event place and weave with this; then when I am asked what I am doing I explain about Tibet. Then people can weave a prayer flag on the loom themselves while learning more about the situation. Ultimately after refining the design a bit I will soon be making more so each person can have a loom to work on. I think this is helpful because the heart is more easily involved through working with the hands to help then by reading or hearing about something. There's a lot more to add but as usual two as one we'll add to the notes later beautiful one!

* courtesy of A Luminous Diamond (Bright) Crystal Show productions. The information for

the sketches is courtesy of the Footprint Tibet handbook by Gyurme Dorje.

( please click here to return to my spinning for you!)


	Through My Eyes * With work in the Grove and Tibetan events in NYC I haven't been able to work on the sculpture of Tara Drolma except as usual to continue to keep the clay moist. I thought I'd bring us something I've been doing for our outreach events... This is a small frame loom made out of items you can get in a hardware store by wandering through the aisles. Everything together costs about 10$ so it's easy to afford. You can recognize some similarities to the backstrap loom but this is a lot easier to set up because it doesn't need to be tied to anything and the tension is maintained by the frame. Also the heddle rod that pulls up one of the sets of warp threads that run the length of the loom uses green threads! Here I'm stringing up the heddle rod as I do the backstrap loom. This makes them easier to see which makes it easier should they get tangled. We can see them in a length of the finished cloth; it looks rather pleasant! What I do now is to sit at the outreach event place and weave with this; then when I am asked what I am doing I explain about Tibet. Then people can weave a prayer flag on the loom themselves while learning more about the situation. Ultimately after refining the design a bit I will soon be making more so each person can have a loom to work on. I think this is helpful because the heart is more easily involved through working with the hands to help then by reading or hearing about something. There's a lot more to add but as usual two as one we'll add to the notes later beautiful one! * courtesy of A Luminous Diamond (Bright) Crystal Show productions. The information for the sketches is courtesy of the Footprint Tibet handbook by Gyurme Dorje. ( please click here to return to my spinning for you!)