Weaver

                                                    Hand Loom Weaver

The loom is set the warp from front to back

In colours single or in many

Tight they are like timelines to fill until infinity

Through the heddles to make the shed

Where shuttle dart pulling thread

Each run is beaten in

Adding to what is ready written 

 

Like a diary or story tell

On the never ending page

That makes the fabric

Of the weavers time

Heddles change

Clattery Clat

Shuttle in silent flight

 

Clattery Clat

So goes the weavers day

Clattery Clat

Cattery Clat

No sound may be heard

Read my lips

The weaver say

 

Writing time

In colour

Or in texture

Clattery Clat

No spoken words

Reading lips

Clattery Clat

Reviews

[Dhara_Ditzy Kat]

Silk weaving is a big thing in Benaras, India. I've never been there but I hear the sights and sounds are so colourful and enthralling. Yet, in all the clatter lies a silence. The silence of focus, concentration and diligence. The weaver engrossed in creating beauty and magic through the loom says nothing yet says so much. I lovely tribute Rose and very informative too.

[Wild Rose]

Picture is from a Craft weavers weaving woolen items for sale in the shop

BUT I dont think this man could keep up alone with the shop sales; think the have more looms elsewhere


Difference is the number of threads to the inch silk can be around 100 or more > I have only known woollen mills (factories)

[Dhara_Ditzy Kat]

Indeed. Again the quality of the cotton ups with the thread count, I believe. Thanks for the update.

[m3lody mae]

such a clever write, I really enjoyed this. awesome write here

[Wild Rose]

Clattery Clat came from a Lancashire mill song abot a weaving shed > It is a deafening sound with several power looms 'clatterying' away shuttle fired across the loom; the heddles being chaged at every 'throw; the yarn being beaten into place
Some of the ladies (weavers were mainly women) sining at the top of their voices (Gracie Fields a well known Lancashire weaver lass came to the top singer of her day was a cotton weaver - powerfull voice _ 'Sally of our Alley')

There I go getting carried away

[Chris Shaw]

You build great imagery here of textile production, the build up of colour and the sounds of the loom. You also took me back to school where we learned to make a simple loom and weave our own patterns. Lovely work. I also appreciate the image you have posted Wild Rose.

Chris

[Wild Rose]

Thank you > hope they were happy memories
Picture is Avoco Hand Loom Weavers; Avoco Nr Wicklow S.Ireland
I tried to conjour up a similarity between weaving line by line alont the warp to Lifes Time Line; Day by day

[Chris Shaw]

They were happy memories. My weaving was very colourful. That's where I learned about the warp and weft which also applies to our daily lives, :)

[sette]

life can be compared to a loom without weaving we will reach nothing... it takes one's willpower to know where we are heading and how to head there

[Wild Rose]

Thank you sette > almost what I had in mind
I had the idea of a comparison between writing Lifes Journey along the warp
with the weft providing the story

[Einstein Noodle]

interesting..thank you for a peak into the weavers loom ... love the vernacular (had to look it up) thank you for my new words! i have seen movies with scenes of a weaver in them and the clattery clat adds sound ...as your Zen weaver sits in his universe and his silence ... nice read ..
E.

[Wild Rose]

Was brought up amongst textile workers > One GF ran six looms and got very good pay
All the weaver could lip read - these days they wear ear defenders
Nothing like the peaceful work of a tapestry weaver making pictures

[Einstein Noodle]

wow ... that almost seems dangerous! six at a time!!! he must be a Master

[Wild Rose]

The average weaver could work four looms
My GF was a fit racing cyclist and could get round faster (she wanted the money)

Both her and my wife (a reeler) were on high pay rates > Both earned more than a skilled engineer

[Einstein Noodle]

a real blessing to have skills acknowledged that way ;)