{"id":503,"date":"2009-10-12T17:28:40","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T21:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/?p=503"},"modified":"2013-05-24T18:17:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T22:17:12","slug":"i-had-a-life-as-a-weaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/i-had-a-life-as-a-weaver\/","title":{"rendered":"I had a life as a weaver."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a life as a weaver. I was given a loom that belonged to my grandmother&#8217;s cousin. It was an older four harness, counterbalance, home made, maple loom. It was very sturdy and very heavy. I still have it\u2014stored in my attic. I have a smaller portable Harrisville loom which I still have set up in a guest room with the wild idea that I may use it again&#8230;<br \/>\nI also had a 60 inch <a href =\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/loom\"> AVL Dobby loom <\/a>which I have since sold.<\/p>\n<p>I mainly made clothing, enjoying the mix of colors and textures. I enjoyed details and designing clothing which made use of shapes as they came off the loom. I loved trying to figure things out.<\/p>\n<p>Now the computer gives me all the &#8220;figuring out&#8221; I need but I still spin yarn from time to time. It&#8217;s sort of a Zen, meditative thing\u2014and the yarn piles up and up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/weaving\/loom4H.jpg\" alt=\"My first loom\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>My first loom<\/em><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Samples of my weaving are on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/94915589@N00\/sets\/72157622449058869\/detail\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a life as a weaver. I was given a loom that belonged to my grandmother&#8217;s cousin. It was an older four harness, counterbalance, home made, maple loom. It was very sturdy and very heavy. I still have it\u2014stored in my attic. I have a smaller portable Harrisville loom which I still have set&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/i-had-a-life-as-a-weaver\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[108,109],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiber","tag-weaving","tag-loom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}