Pie are Round
In the summer of 1990 my former husband and I moved from southern California to a little town outside Corvallis, Oregon called Philomath (which means ‘lover of learning, especially a student of mathematics’). We bought our first house there, a sweet little 1940’s bungalow that had a concord grape arbor that spanned about 16 feet across the back of the house. It grew so prolifically that if I didn’t prune it back assertively every week…
Double Rainbow Evolves, part 2
As I experimented with weaving in the Double Rainbow system in two blocks on 8 shafts and seeing how the combinatory possibilities for color and pattern were truly endless, I realized that I needed to find a system for encoding and notating information. Otherwise it would be like falling down a rabbit hole and never being able to find your way out again. This problem had me stymied for quite some time and I spent…
Double Rainbow Evolves, part 1
I experimented with Double Rainbow warps on four shafts for several months (see the previous blog post, Color in Space and Time), each time discovering more ways that the same warp setup could be woven. Since it is a doubleweave with each layer set the same as if it were a single layer, the total sett is twice as dense. This means that it can be woven as warp rep with a thick and thin…