by StaceyHB | Sep 19, 2010 | Art, Education, Life, Teaching, Weaving
Last week I talked about the wonderful exhibitions that Laura Thomas has curated as part of the Warp & Weft series of exhibitions and symposium that she has put on in Camarthenshire – at the Oriel Myrrdin Gallery in Camarthen, and also at the National Wool...
by StaceyHB | Sep 15, 2010 | Life
Last week I gave a very brief overview of texture through double weave, and today I’m focussing on pique which is a tied structure. If you look back through technical books, pique and the technique called matelasse are frequently called each other and crossed...
by StaceyHB | Sep 5, 2010 | Art, Education, Life, Philosophy, Travel, Weaving
Exotica. When the Midlands Textile Forum decided on this title for an exhibition to be staged at the Botanical Gardens in Birmingham, (on from now until 30th September), I had to smile! I could just imagine certain men of my acquaintance brightening up with the...
by StaceyHB | Aug 29, 2010 | Life
Ok, I admit it…. I’m showing off!! But blame it on the music, as they say (who are ‘they’ and why do we take notice of them anyway…?) Seriously though (awww!), you really can blame it on the music! As a music student one of the pieces...
by StaceyHB | Aug 23, 2010 | Life
Firstly, may I apologise for putting this in the wrong place last week. I created a new page instead of a new post, so you can find it if you search for shibori, but otherwise it wasn’t in the normal blog page! You can imagine my perplexity when I wanted to...
by StaceyHB | Aug 22, 2010 | Life, Philosophy, Psychology
I was watching an ants’ nest that had been disturbed in my garden during our most recent renovation activity. The ants were scurrying around seemingly at random, running here and there without apparent purpose, until I realised that there was indeed a very...
