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Belated Thanksgiving Thankfulness: The Weavers Guild Dobby Group

November 27, 2017 Robbie LaFleur

I made a pretty towel on the Megado loom at the Weavers Guild of Minnesota, part of the Dobby Weavers Interest Group project. The words

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My Mom (Eileen Wurden) and her sister MaryAnn in younger big-hair days. It’s MaryAnn’s funeral today; she was 90. You can read my tribute (and about cookies in the dishwasher) here: https://robbielafleur.com/2019/06/14/missing-the-nicest-person-ever/

This will be the only time I fish for cod off the Lofoten Islands, I’m sure. I caught the biggest one, at five kilos. That’s Sven, one of the guides, next to me. He told me I have to come back in Mid-March to get the really big migrating cod. Probably not; I was frozen and wet, but didn’t mind. Getting one fish is like gambling; you just want one more, biggger. #nusfjord #lofotenislands

A Lofoten rya in the breakfast room in Nusfjord. Heavy plied yarn in the pile; striped twill back. Acquired by the owners, so no detailed history. #ryaweaving #rya #weaving #vev #lofotenislands #nusfjordarcticresort #nusfjord

Nusfjord, Norway. Midnight. nusfjord Arctic Village. The pub is in an old potato cellar.

Detail from a decorative “wallpaper” of tapestry in a room at Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen. More photos of rooms you wouldn’t want to live in, but are fun to see, at robbielafleur.com. #tapestry #tapestryweaving #rosenborgcastle #weaving

Alien suit? No it’s a whalers suit, and the round part is tightened around a piece of a kayak so the whaler is fully waterproof. At the National Museum in Copenhagen. And then they are in slim slivers of wood in the frigid ocean throwing harpoons?

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