This type of weaving is just the sort of weaving challenge I have been looking for and I believe I would like to study Andean / South American pebble weaves in depth. Apparently there's a difference between these two as well, in the way that they are warped, but I will figure that out more as I go along. And according to Ms. Nisbet you have to read, read, read and then get busy on the loom! I would also like to get a copy of Laverne Waddington's book as well. And so I have decided not to do the COE at this time. I figure this is enough.
I have been doing my genealogy on Ancestry and I realize how the very mention of this makes most people cringe as if you've just said, "Hey! Want to see the slides from my trip to North Dakota?" (No offense meant to those in N.D.) If you are a craftsman or artist, you could find this a bit interesting.
I must digress...I had this awesome craft teacher in high school, Mr. Prout. He knew how to do everything and we learned everything from lino-block printing to cross-stitch to coil baskets. I loved everything he taught in that class but was especially drawn to weaving and coil baskets. Weaving we learned on frame looms and I guess he could see how much I loved it because he gave me my loom at the end of the year. When my mom saw me weaving on my cherished frame loom at home she said something along the lines of, "you must take after your dad's side". I asked why and she told me that my dad's mother, when describing my grandfather's family, would refer to them as, "...a bunch of hillbilly basket weavers"; this not being said in a very charitable way. I didn't think much of it until recently when I've discovered that, in fact, they were basket weavers or basket makers as they were called, in Poundridge and Wallkill, NY from the 1700's into the early 20th century. Being a weaver, this is some pretty fascinating stuff for me.
So I thought all that is pretty cool and it's funny how my DNA knew I was a weaver even before I did. Fascinating http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFods1KSWsQ
