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Imperfect Art

Imperfect Art

by StaceyHB | Jun 21, 2020 | Art, Book Review, Education, Life, Nature, Philosophy, textiles, Weaving

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...
Floppy Cloth, Simple Dimensional Cloth and Why We Make Things & Why It Matters,

Floppy Cloth, Simple Dimensional Cloth and Why We Make Things & Why It Matters,

by StaceyHB | Jun 11, 2019 | Art, Book Review, Education, Life, Nature, Philosophy, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Travel, Weaving

This summer we are having a great time at The Loom Room France with weaving guests and non-weavers alike. The cherries have now been supplanted by the emerging plum harvest, and the swallows have now finished constructing their nest and are laying a number of eggs so...
Book Review – Craft Economies – Susan Luckman, Nicola Thomas (eds)

Book Review – Craft Economies – Susan Luckman, Nicola Thomas (eds)

by StaceyHB | Feb 3, 2019 | Art, Book Review, Education, Publications

Craft Economies Ed Susan Luckman and Nicola Thomas (2018)  London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic ‘Comprising a collection of 20 essays from 28 academics, practitioners, Craft Economies spans a wide landscape of craft practices, sites and forms of making from...
Book Review – Steal Like an Artist  – Austin Kleon

Book Review – Steal Like an Artist – Austin Kleon

by StaceyHB | Jan 26, 2019 | Art, Book Review, Education, Life, Philosophy, Psychology, Publications

Steal Like an Artist – 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative    Austin Kleon 2012  New York: Workman Publishing If you’re like me, I have always been aware that to copy is a cardinal sin for an artist, and yet, as a classical musician, that is what I was...
New book review – Pattern & Loom – John Becker

New book review – Pattern & Loom – John Becker

by StaceyHB | Jan 20, 2019 | Art, Book Review, Education, Jacquard weaving, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Travel, Weaving

Pattern & Loom: a practical study of the development of weaving techniques in China, Western Asia and Europe   John Becker  (with collaboration of Donald B. Wagner) Nias Press 2nd edition 2014 It’s taken me a long time to read this book.  I remember posting...
Dye, print, stitch – book review and UK Online Guild series What Inspires Contemporary Weavers?

Dye, print, stitch – book review and UK Online Guild series What Inspires Contemporary Weavers?

by StaceyHB | Sep 9, 2018 | Art, Book Review, Education, Life, Nature, Philosophy, Publications, textiles, Travel, Weaving

I know – I’m like a London bus – nothing for a while, then two posts come along together!! Over the summer I’ve been dipping into a book by Prof Brenda M King that I picked up in April at the Foxlowe’s Art Centre in Leek where I had my...

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