April 2014

Last Wednesday our guild had Lisa Scull from the RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) Textiles Department as a presenter.  She is a senior critic and the head of the Jacquard Department.  The loom below is the RISD jacquard. If

I just finished winding 15 warps to send out for a June workshop (please don't notice the chaos of the studio . . . I'm getting to it . . . somehow yarn/book/equipment capacity has been exceeded), and I have been

I have been hearing quite a few intriguing radio segments on neurobiology (in its lowest common denominator form - I'm sure) and how our brains are happy and soothed by crafts (A rehash of the "This is Your Brain on