Meadow Lane Atelier
Notes from the bench, kept irregularly.
Late spring
Three wet weeks and nothing came off the line properly. We moved the racks to the east wall, where the morning sun lands for two hours, and the linen finally stopped smelling of the room.
Worth writing down: cloth dried slowly in still air takes dye more evenly afterwards. We lost a fortnight and learned something.
Early spring
The vat went sharp on the fourth day and we nearly lost it. Fed it bran and left it alone for a week, which is the only thing that has ever worked.
Eight dips on the refectory runner. The first four do almost nothing you can see; the last two do everything.
Winter
We have been glazing with ash off our own stove since the autumn. It changes with whatever we have been burning, which means no two firings match and we have stopped pretending otherwise.
One client asked for the variation in writing, as a condition. That felt like permission.
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