Old Leclerc

What fun! I received from a librarian in Philadelphia a Catalog from Leclerc. I have not yet figured out when it was printed, but it is identified as number 172A. I am really excited about the contents that are listed within it. The basic designs and sizes of the Leclerc equipment is still similar. Of course there are no computerized looms. But MIRA loom, the FANNY loom and the NILUS looms look familiar, though I think that all the new versions are version two not version one.The most interesting extras are the Occupational Therapy versions and the Bed Patients Loom Rack. These two items indicate that weaving in your bed or weaving even if you are using a wheelchair is supported. I don't think I have seen these items in the current catalog.

I think it is really cool that people saw weaving as a good way to maintain your physical ability by weaving. activating your arms and legs by weaving is something that we weavers know only too well.

I will have to copy some of he pictures in this catalog and share it with you all in the near future. Meanwhile, I am trying to figure out the age of the catalog. If anyone knows the date for the publication of the catalog 172A, please let me know.

The other recent excitement was the opening for the show in the SCIART gallery. An old friend and her husband came to the show. I really had a great evening. Here are a couple of pictures of some of the item in the show. If you get a chance during the next month, I encourage everyone to dropping by the show in old town camarillo. Besides, I have a piece showing there!

An interested woven piece at the Bed and Breakfast.

We stayed at a very nice bed and breakfast in Philadelphia. We stayed in their Blueberry room. Everything in the room was either blue or blue tinted. On one wall was this interesting blue handwoven rug that had been hung on the wall. It was double woven, and as I am a little interested in fiber work, you can see that i had to take a picture and share it with everyone. I don't know who made this, and I was unable to find out when and where it was made. The owner did not remember.

It does provide a nice model for anyone thinking about a double weave project.

As usual, fiber is everywhere.

I may be stuck in bed but I can still blog!!

I may be stuck in bed, but I can still BLOG!! Besides, I have the pictures that my wife was able to take for me while we traveled and I have wanted to share some of them with everyone. The trip to the east had a number of important tasks. First was to pick up our son who completed his post baccalaureate program. The other critical this was to go to the sites of my mother's grave and my wife's father's grave. They died last year within a couple of weeks of each other and we needed to place the stones on their graves. Here are the pictures of the two grave stones. My wife took these two pictures. I guess that I will have to go there again so that I can stand at the place of their graves.

It is interesting to see the stones in place. It is a finalization of one thing, but also a beginning of the next part of our lives. My wife and I now look forward to new actions, new progress and new future. Even as we were saying farewell to our parents, we were bringing our son back to California with us so that he can start his Doctorial program at Berkeley.

The circle of life!!

Want to know how to mess up a vacation?

I have never ruined a vacation quite a badly as I have this one. Here I am lying on a bed looking at the ceiling and waiting for my back to stop aching. At least I have been able to work on updating my blog! I picked up a traveling bag and it killed me! I dropped to the floor, crawled into my car and my wife and son finished packing up the back of the car. We have then driven down to Florida. We were supposed to take a couple of more days seeing things before we made it this far. But with me lying on my back waiting for my back to stop hurting and waiting for it to feed better the worm weather here in florida seems to be the right place to be. Right now we have Monday morning flights to california, and the big question is wether of not I will be healthy enough or not to get in the plane and fly home.

Oh well!

Great trip to DC!!

What a great stay in DC, and what trip can you take without a picture of the reflection pool from the Lincoln Memorial. Even if the reflection pool is dry and being cleaned in preparation of the summer time when the visitors will all be visiting!!! We also visited many of the museums.Some of them were more exciting than others. I really enjoyed the new Museum of American Indians. One of the most exciting exhibitions was a collection of woven work by an american indian. The entire museum had an enormous collection of work by all different american indian art work both day to day activity and a large collection of material for religious activities. This picture is of some recent art work by an american indian doing really interesting recycling materials. I really enjoyed his work.

We also went to a number of museums with both Eastern areas and from art from all over the world. All of these museums also had large numbers of fiber related work.

These interesting collection came from the museums near the Castle. These two pictures are just a small collection of all the Fiber art I found in the museums. It is really nice that so many people are producing fiber art.

We went to the american collection of Bonsai trees.

Some of these are 100 to 200 years old.

This beautiful bonsai was trained since 1625. It was donated to the United states.

They have been store in one place and the collection is outstanding.

We spent several hours just walking through this beautiful park and enjoying all the bonsai.

Also it turns out that this is where the old columns from the capital are stored. When the expanded the c

apital, they moved the columns here and stored them. An interesting place to see them.

On our way headed for the south!

We packed up our son and headed for florida! Meanwhile, we stopped in Baltimore and took a look at the east coast ocean museum. The jelly fish were really pretty, but I think that the show in Monterey is better.

The Chuppah is almost ready!

I have been working hard, but I am getting near the end. Today I started putting the tallasim together and tried putting it on the frame.

I put the frame together in my studio and basted together the pieces. I had to take a few pictures to show how it looks. The colors seem good.

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also took a few pictures on the inside of the chuppah to see how it looks.

With the picture form inside you can better see the tallis and see the back side of the banner.