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Tartan mania

ByJill Murray 2025-04-242025-04-24

I’ve been collecting archival information about my grandmother, Bessie Murray, and the Nova Scotia Tartan. I found this Macleans cover from 1957 in an old email from my dad, that […]

Penelope the black cat sits beside my table loom, which is threaded with grey warp yarn.

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Getting Dressed

ByJill Murray 2025-04-092025-04-09

Dressing the loom takes an eternity.

Four spools of cottolin yarn, on my desk mat, which features black cat peeking over the edge, with rainbow beaming behind it.

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You Can Weave: Let’s Get Warped

ByJill Murray 2025-01-302025-01-30

I detail my plans for creating a Montreal Tartan, and make my first warp– that’s the long vertical threads– for the loom, with Penelope’s help.

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You Can Weave: Meet Frankie, the Frankenloom

ByJill Murray 2025-01-242025-01-30

My new-old loom needs some work to make it usable. It also gets a new name.

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ByJill Murray 2025-01-132025-01-30

In which I embark on a major project to learn from a book my grandmother co-wrote, in 1974.