These are of particular interest to recent students in Andean Backstrap Weaving, so here’s a post pulling them all together Reference bands and small pouches and the interesting narrow bands are up. Huacatinco Watanas : tiny and amazing and beaded and mostly Tanka Ch’oro https://abbysyarns.com/webshop/product/huacatinco-watana/ Chahuaytire Beaded Bands: these are loom controlled and not for […]

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At last, it’s available digitally! The spinning fundamentals program I developed for Stringtopia Fiber Arts Studio is aimed at taking you from your first interest in making your own yarn by hand all the way up to being a comfortable intermediate spinner in only 4 months including your practice time. SPINNING I meets weekly for […]

Dear Chris, As I write this now, I’m in a tourist service Sprinter van whose driver wanted to pick up more passengers from Ollantaytambo to Cusco via Chinchero. It’s Mother’s Day and I’m headed for Chinchero to put flowers on your grave. This place has changed so much in the past 42 years. I hope […]

So, I’m doing a thing. When I set out to try to plan this venture, initially, a few years ago, I thought I was completely different from my parents. We’ll come back to that. I guess the idea for this whole thing started at my mother’s velorio — her wake, basically. We buried her in […]