May 2014

I have generally tried to cultivate an optimistic attitude of "what's the worst that could happen?" in weaving and in life.  Having had a pretty stable, secure upbringing and young life, it was an easy attitude to maintain across the

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.        Will Rogers So this post is me sitting on the curb and applauding for Andreas Möeller:  http://www.moeller-hamburg.com/a/75-Flying-8-A-New-School-Of-Weaving.html I initially gravitated

I found these images on these websites: http://browngrotta.com/pages/tanaka.php and http://modernistaesthetic.blogspot.com/2014/02/chiyoko-tanaka.html and  I found them crushingly beautiful.   They are textiles by the artist Chiyoko Tanaka whose artist's statement includes the following: For me the act of weaving, as the weft threads accumulate one by