No sleep and a room upgrade...

It turned out the gap in the window thing was quite a problem as we were right by the main road on a Saturday night, a constant stream of revving motor bikes. At 3am when the noise from the bikes started to fade it was time for the local mosque to start its call for prayer which was luckily on a very loud speaker for the whole village to hear,this was also accompanied by the horses getting ready for their days work pulling the taxis, not a great nights sleep. We all agreed that we couldn’t cope with another night of this. I started dreaming of the resorts down the road, but it was not to be, the hotel agreed to move us to a bigger room further from the road instead and much to my delight my hole in the floor toilet/shower got upgraded to an almost proper toilet, although still in the shower!!

This is the view from our room, much better than the view of our room!


Despite the lack of sleep had a productive day mostly spent planning the designs for the next day as the looms were still being set up. The mill owner also brought out his collection of fabrics for us to look at. He makes some really beautiful things. They are all of a similar quality, but he has a great sense of colour and proportion. I have high hopes for our developments, although it will be another day before we see anything. We are working on one dobby loom with 6 shafts and also a jacquard loom. I have decided to wait until I get home to make the jacquard designs. Due to the fact that everything is designed on paper here it would take at least a day to plot out 1 design. On my computer at home i can make at least 10 designs in a day, so we decide that this is a more productive use of my time.