Visual and tactile playtime!
What fun it has been to look through my inbox this week! (Images: Above, Grignani 8 - optical inspiration : right B&W14 - Katharina Krönig ) One topic has been foremost and it is so exciting to have so many interesting conversations and fabulous feedback from...
How I Got Into Weaving – Daryl Lancaster
NAME: Daryl Lancaster BACKSTORY: Daryl is a hand-weaver and fiber artist known for her award-winning hand-woven fabric and garments who has been constructing garments for more than 50 years!! We first came into contact with each other through Complex Weavers...
Woven Optical Illusions Update and New Guest Blogs!
Image: Marian Stubenitsky - 4S pick-up (I'm calling it Shooting Star - with permission!) It's been a crazy couple of weeks (in a good way!) since the last blog... Firstly, thanks so much for all the wonderful responses you gave me on Woven Optical Illusions. If you...
Woven Optical Illusions – Who, What, Where, When, How?
Left to right - Stacey Harvey-Brown (colour-and-weave); Marian Stubenitsky (double cloth); Andreja Zelinka (deflected double weave) Hello everyone! Two more weeks have gone by in our 'lockdown' and I hope you are keeping well! It's a worrying and unsettling time...
Why Weave? Why Now?
Hello everyone, I hope that you are safe and staying well. It might be a highly unusual time that we are experiencing, but we also have an amazing opportunity in the midst of this pandemic. COVID-19 is giving us a chance to stop in our tracks and think deeply about...
What Kind of Weaver Are You?**
What kind of weaver are you? ** Do you weave for a specific reason, do you like to follow projects in a book or online, or do you relish the thought of creating something completely original whether for yourself, a friend, a client or an exhibition? If you’re reading...
I Want To Be Like You When I Grow Up!
Today I want to tell you about three wonderful ladies whom I have met here in France. I'll call them collectively 'MIN'. One is in her forties, one in her fifties and one in her sixties. MIN embody everything that I want to become. They don't know each other - yet....
Thank You!
It is not often that I mention politics in my working life. However, I have been so moved by the love and support that has been extended to us by our French friends here in Nérac that I wanted to say ‘thank-you’. Thank you for the warmth of your acceptance of us and...
Easy adaptations for threading and life!
If you're like me, you prefer making weaving processes as easy to do as possible, especially the thinking side! Recently I have been preparing 4-shaft samples of stitched double cloth for an upcoming workshop. The warp has a 2 cotton to 1 wool ratio and it was easier...
2020 Dates! New Themed Course, Update on New Book,
Hello all! The teaching season may well be behind us for this year, but things are very busy here in The Loom Room France. Firstly, the 2020 dates are now available!! You can find them here. I'm delighted to say that one Honeycomb Hybrid course is already fully...
2020 Plans afoot!
Autumn has been late arriving here in Gascony, South West France. It’s a lovely time of year here - the sun is still beautifully warm, the rainy days few and far between, the fields a range of yellows, browns and green which turn golden, orange and russet colours at...
Texture in all its 3-D glory!
Image: Samira Boon, Self-folding fabric. As many of you know, I am a texture fanatic. Creating dimensional surfaces in woven fabric really intrigue, delight and inspire me, often with ideas taken from nature. Philippa Brock has done a lot of research on self-folding...