Mary Ostler

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I tried out another sample for the Turkish carpet project.  This time I tried using the Persian knot. It goes faster than the Turkish knot, but it doesn’t tighten up the same way. In fact it seems really loose until you weave the thread between the rows.  I think the Turkish knot leaves a more square look to the [...]

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The first sample had a knot grouping of  14×6 knots per inch. That produces a rectangular pattern.
After a suggestion from myss_minx on replacing the weft crochet threads with fine thread, and spreading the warp threads slightly,  I have gotten a pattern of 12×9 knots per inch. Still not completely happy. Would like to [...]

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So I have a project itching away at the old brain. I have recently been staring alot at Holbein Turkish Carpets. Maybe its the colors black, orange red, and white that make me think….gawd it would be cool to try and make one of those. I started looking into it [...]

Hello,
I have been going through the vast array of game boards that the Barony possess, and have come across a game I don’t recognize, nor can find by flipping through my game books.
If you know what this is called, I would be grateful.

I seem to be slowly getting into the whole Turkish ottoman thing. Since I am currently weaving a hat tie, I decided to try to make a sorguç (Ottoman Hat Plume Holder thingy).
Mistress Safiye has made an amazing sorguç made out of silver using as many period methods as she could. Its a big slice of all-right, but [...]

Having recently converted my electric lathe to a pole lathe (ok Bungy…but its close) I discovered a new place to put my calipers. Normally I loose my calipers under heaping mounds of sawdust. Now I hang them from bungy’s  from the bar I use for my pole lathe. Yea accidental goodness!

Finished with the wool I was weaving. Ended up ~ 11″x 12.5′ long. I could have probably squeezed out another foot it I used a smaller dowel on the winder.

The weave is really loose at this stage. It needs some fulling to tighten it up some.

12.5′ of narrow wool. No idea what I am going [...]

I have a commission to make 60 spools up for a local merchant that deals with dyed textile goods. She bought a few when I was merchanting last fall, but wanted a slew more. Since then my original source of head scratching cheap dogwood billets has disappeared. I am now using scrap Cherry and Walnut [...]

I decided to weave some grey wool. It was stuff we had stored in a box in the cupboard for years. I believe its 3 strand/size 4 thread (could be wrong though).

The width of the warp is around 11″’s I think my reed is a little to tight for this thickness of wool

Waiting to be [...]

By Request: How I convert my electric lathe to a functioning pole lathe.
I am lucky enough to have a decent size shop, and even luckier (mis-fortunate) to have inherited a lot of old tools. The decent size shop seems pretty small when all the tools are taking up every corner. Hence I have no room to have [...]