by StaceyHB | Mar 8, 2009 | Jacquard weaving, Life, Philosophy, Teaching, Weaving
One of the lessons that weaving teaches is patience. All kinds of patience – the ‘take a deep breath and count to 10’ patience when something easily preventable happens; the ‘am I dedicated enough to the quality of this piece that I unweave those picks to sort...
by StaceyHB | Mar 2, 2009 | Life, Philosophy, Psychology
I’ve been reading an old book by an author called Eric Williams. He was a pilot in the Second World War and his book is called The Tunnel, and is about escaping from captivity. His first confinement was in a small cell and brought back to my mind Nelson Mandela’s...
by StaceyHB | Feb 15, 2009 | Life, Philosophy, Psychology, Teaching, Weaving
I love words. They have the power to harm or to heal, to empower or to reduce, to inspire or to deflate. I try to write a journal most days and I do that in the mornings, before the day’s tasks and “must dos” get in the way. It’s a stream of consciousness thing –...
by StaceyHB | Feb 9, 2009 | Philosophy, Weaving
Views change in different conditions. What an ambiguous statement. Do I mean views as in opinions? Or views as in vistas? Actually this morning I mean vistas. I was walking Charlie along a familiar route, but the weather was very misty and very cold – snow topped...
by StaceyHB | Feb 1, 2009 | Life, Philosophy, Weaving
One of the books I am reading at the moment is called 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life by Roger-Pol Droit. It’s full of different exercises you can try to see deeper than the surface of things. The second exercise in the book – Empty a Word of Its...
by StaceyHB | Jan 29, 2009 | Life, Philosophy, Psychology, Weaving
When you hit the zone and work is easy, isn’t it wonderful? But what do you do when the inspiration, and the energy, runs out? Well, that happened to me today – not for the first time, I might add. Sometimes I just finish the sample or scarf that I’m weaving, and...
