Brain and Weaving Shifts
You know when something pushes you out of your comfort zone and you feel decidedly unbalanced? Well, I do now. It's exciting, it's exhilarating and it's definitely a bit unnerving!! It's been an interesting week with the launch off Beneath the Surface monograph and...
Beneath the Surface – monograph available from today
It's launch day for my Beneath the Surface monograph. It's only taken 10 years (!) but finally my monograph on stitched double cloth, with piqué, matelassé, non-chemical cloqué, and using waffle weave to create fabulous deep texture is here. It has been thoroughly...
How I Got Into Weaving – Janet Phillips
NAME: Janet Phillips BACKSTORY: Janet was another weaver who was always there when I first started weaving and who has stood the test of time. Her first book The Weaver's Book of Fabric Design (1983), (her second, Designing Woven Fabrics, was published in 2008) was...
Imperfect Art
The title of today's blog is actually the title of a book I've been reading. It's about jazz, but before you quickly skip on to the next item on your Facebook feed or scroll down to the next email in your inbox, it also applies to weaving. Written in 1988, Ted Gioia...
How I Got Into Weaving – Ann Richards
NAME: Ann Richards BACKSTORY: Ann has been a part of my weaving life from the almost the beginning - certainly in my second year of weaving I remember picking up a book co-authored by Ann Sutton and Diane Sheehan called Ideas in Weaving and seeing a lovely...
Heddlecraft feature, Australian news and French adventures
What a sobering week it has been news-wise. All lives matter and we must do what we believe to be right and to support each other against injustice and hatred wherever and whenever it shows up. I have posted my reflections in a video on my Facebook profile as I feel...
How I Got Into Weaving – Lillian Whipple
NAME: Lillian Whipple BACKSTORY: I first met Lillian whilst getting off an escalator at a weaving conference - I can't remember which one now! A lady approached me with a lovely smile, holding out a tiny woven motif and said "I don't think we've met before. Would you...
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...