by StaceyHB | Mar 7, 2021 | Book Review, Psychology, Publications
Did you know that the Dean of American Handweaving, Mary Meigs Atwater wrote a novel? And not just a novel – a crime novel? My dear friend Joy, who is not a weaver, asked me over a coffee whether I had ever heard of this lady called Mary Meigs Atwater. When I...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
