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Aww, this feeling...
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And the final piece.
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And, finally, the yoga mat.
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Four-colour double weave.
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The rug is finished and put to use.
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I started weaving my ripsmatta design and discovered that it did not look right. After some reading I realized that my warp is not thick enough (eg 48 epi for 8/2 cotton is absolutely NOT covering the weft as it supposed). Well, back to reading and comput
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Reed sleying. The stage when I am almost done with the loom dressing, but not quite.
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Threading the loom. 2 warps started to be visibly separate. 25 inches more. 頑張れ、私。
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Despite its look, this is not a warp with stripes.
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Vacation mode off, back to weaving. This is a warp for a yoga mat and 2 rugs. Ripsmatta weaving. I am really curious to see how my design will look irl.
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How to keep your supper ingredients fresh, the old way.
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A garden in a historical samurai house. Now I know how to landscape my lawn.
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東京に新幹線です。Shinkansen to Tokyo.
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Looking at this garden, today I understood its stillness. And I found it to be more humane, more warm, than the old traditional stone garden on the other side of the temple.
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There is something surreal about this garden.
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A slow ripple.
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10 yen coin.
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Amazing sky.
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All of a sudden, a lotus. No boddhisattva, though.
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Stairs, shade.
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Trying my hand in calligraphy. "The tempest".
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Gion matsuri ready: frontal view. #祇園祭
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Kyoto, view from a hill.
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Temples and sake.
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Gion matsuti ready.
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A structured sky.
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#fromwhereistand
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Source of a certain reflection.
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Reflections.
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Soo breathtaking.
