by StaceyW | Dec 14, 2009 | Life
This week my thoughts turned to a wonderful lady I knew as a child. Until I was 10, we lived in a small, quiet, backwater village in Kent, in the middle of the hop-gardens and apple orchards of The Garden of England. One of the village characters, although one of...
by StaceyW | Dec 5, 2009 | Jacquard weaving, Life, Philosophy, Psychology, Travel, Weaving
Sorry to republish this, but I was asked by Dusan from Arahne to make it clear that Arahne did not charge for my phone calls, but that I was referring to my telecoms provider. I am more than happy to clarify that, with my apologies if anyone read it that way. I also...
by StaceyW | Nov 21, 2009 | Jacquard weaving, Teaching, Weaving
I’ve just done a very successful swap. I had a 16S Harris table loom that is very heavy, takes up a lot of floor space in my studio and isn’t used much. I suddenly decided that I needed to sell it and buy an 8S table loom that folds away, so that my...
by StaceyW | Nov 8, 2009 | Jacquard weaving, Life
I’ve been lacing jacquards cards to make my woven Xmas cards today and whilst doing so, I listened to several CDs, including Jamie Cullum’s Catching Tales, and one song really pushed a button with me. “When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life,...
by StaceyW | Oct 31, 2009 | Life, Weaving
Yesterday, in an odd half hour between finishing one job and going for my lunch, I started on some of the backlog of shredding of my accounts from ten years ago. Yes, that’s right – 1999! It felt like a time warp. Suddenly I was back in 1999,...
