Weaving

I have been spending long days at Vav Stuga the last couple of weeks doing preparation for my upcoming "Masters of Deflection" class. It has been a steep learning curve scrambling to translate all my weaving/warping and drafting skills into the

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller I had the opportunity to join my niece in Peru in early August. She had a grant to study and write about the collection of Machu

I just got home from a week in Providence, RI totally immersed in the world of hand-weaving.  Where else can you walk down a city street, stop to observe an interesting textile in a shop/gallery window and have several people

For some reason there has been a confluence of overshot in the studio these last few days, and the issue of "Squaring" has arisen.  As I mentioned in my last blog post we have a new baby in the extended

I have to admit that my looms have been quiet lately - very few new weavings to display. However, I have been having a rich series of experiences with various 'homies". (Please do not let my son ever hear me

There has been a launch-y feeling around here lately.  My middle son is home from college (rising senior- oh lord!) ready to head to Germany. My youngest just "graduated" from 8th grade and is a rising high-schooler. Our German exchange

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

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