The view from the weaving studio at Harrisville Designs in Harrisville NH. and the window right next to my loom. A great week of learning rug weaving from Jason Collingwood, during which I learned so much and wove sometimes 10 hours a day (lots of pulling out to get it right!). Oh, to have taken this course decades ago and so avoided many, many mistakes...but better late than never.

Some samples in plain weave...

..and in twill.

The millpond...

..and the lake for an evening swim.

 We slept in the boarding house that had been used by the mill workers. From the Harrisville Designs website: "Woolen yarn has been spun in the water powered, brick mill town of Harrisville since 1794. This small village is nestled in the Monadnock Highlands of southwestern New Hampshire and is the only industrial community of the early 19th Century that still survives in America in its original form."

In the boarding house.