by StaceyHB | May 1, 2011 | Art, Life, Psychology, Travel
A few years ago, I set up a weaving workshop for 60 weavers in Oman, a country bordered by Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and across the Straits of Hormuz from Iran. Oman is a fascinating place, as are its people, and one of the people I met stays in contact with me, regularly...
by StaceyHB | Apr 3, 2011 | Life, Nature, Psychology
Spring cleaning is like de-cluttering – it makes you feel good about yourself and your life… At least, that’s the effect it has on me, which is just as well as we’ve a large old house and quite a lot of garden (and we’re not gardeners!!)...
by StaceyHB | Mar 20, 2011 | Jacquard weaving, Life, Psychology, Weaving
I was doing a little tidying of my workshop, just clearing out the area under the stairs today. Wow. Isn’t it amazing just how much stuff we accumulate?! It got me seriously alarmed as I pulled things out and took them outside so i could sort them into piles...
by StaceyHB | Feb 13, 2011 | Art, Education, Life, Nature, Psychology
Homework…. Normally a word to make you shudder – the dread anticipation of hours lost doing things you don’t want to do, have no wish to learn, or things you know you ought to know but don’t really want to; or maybe wishing you’d spent...
by StaceyHB | Feb 6, 2011 | Life, Nature, Psychology, Weaving
Hurrah! Spring is on the way!! Truly!! I promise!! Especially to our friends currently immersed in piles of snow in the mid-west of America! You may only see white out of your windows – if you can see out of your windows at all!! – but I can assure you...
by StaceyHB | Jan 23, 2011 | Art, Education, Life, Philosophy, Psychology
Did that get your attention? I thought it might. What I’m talking about this week is something that raises temperatures, emotions and voices. Why is it that the small proportion of men in textiles seem to get lots of attention and publicly lauded? This question...
