Plain Weave and beyond
595 FOLLOWERS
I am a hand-weaver. I believe that cloth and its creation are somehow embedded in our DNA. Making cloth seems fundamental to me; I am saddened by the distance we have created between the fabric that means so much to us (wedding dresses, christening gowns, tallitot, baby blankets and grandma’s quilt) and the making of that fabric.
Plain Weave and beyond
1y ago
Hello Weavers I have just emerged from planning/teaching a couple of classes that have given me a lot of food for thought. As many of you know, in-class time is a very small (but critical:) part of everything that goes ..read more
Plain Weave and beyond
2y ago
I have been thinking about “beat” quite a bit lately, and I wanted to share some of my (swirling and contradictory) thoughts and recent experiences. My natural reaction (as a skeptic and contrarian) to the hand-weaving community’s obsession with “squaring ..read more
Plain Weave and beyond
2y ago
Hello Weavers I hope your holiday season is shaping up to be relaxing and filled with good will and kindness. I am happily anticipating the arrival of kiddos with their partners and pets, and am trying to check off ..read more
Plain Weave and beyond
2y ago
Hello Weavers, I apologize for postponing part 2 of my Twillogy post, but I have been on a high desert adventure, away from my studio and distracted by the wondrous sights and sounds of west Texas. I ..read more
Plain Weave and beyond
2y ago
Hi weavers – I am working on a new pattern for a series of swellegant pillow covers in twill, and serendipitously, while working on the “twillow” pattern, I have been reviewing Becky Ashenden’s video series in which she recreates her ..read more
Plain Weave and beyond
2y ago
If you are a hand weaver, and you have jumped into the river of winding, beaming, threading, sleying, tying on and tying up in order to swim to the shore of cloth, then I cannot imagine that the notion of ..read more
Plain Weave and beyond
2y ago
I have to confess that the inspiration for this post may be a little self serving, but I have been wrestling with the idea of errors lately. This is mostly due to the humiliating necessity of sending out corrections (often ..read more
Plain Weave and beyond
2y ago
I am poised to publish a pattern for Grand Honeycomb pillow shams (awaiting the final eagle-eyed perusal by Véronique Perrot – stellar weaver, colorist and tech editor), and in response to a question from @eroticmacrame on IG, I wanting to ..read more
Plain Weave and beyond
2y ago
I recently read a IG post by a super accomplished and voluble young weaver lamenting the loss of emphasis on technique in the teaching of weaving in the US. It is implied that this loss of emphasis has been in ..read more
Plain Weave and beyond
2y ago
I wanted to write a short post to say thanks. There are so many things I am thankful for that it would be a pretty long and tedious post if I listed them all. Of course, you – my weaving ..read more