Mountain walking, Rock spotting, and wave watching… Where am I?
Mountain walking, rock spotting and wave watching..... That sounds like heaven to me! Where the mountains meet the sea, all sorts of past geological upheavals are exposed to wondering eyes! Our wonderful architect, Mariette Marty, moved to the Pays Basque with her...
Spring, New Courses, New Skills!
Spring has sprung here in SW France. The temperatures are gradually climbing, the sun is more and more apparent, the birds are singing their hearts out, and Graham is learning new culinary skills to wow our weaving students this year! Homemade marmalade is now gracing...
Muscat Memories
Photo credit: unknown - Source Pinterest This morning, I found myself back in the souk in Muscat, Oman, ten years ago and all I did was open the lid of a new shower cream! A single smell can transport you back in time in the blink of an eye - for me, the smell of...
Revisiting the Past
My new-to-me Dutch table loom with 16 shafts, all warped up and ready to weave. Isn't it wonderful when someone reminds you of something you did a long time ago and that you had forgotten about? My sincere thanks go to Monica, a recent student, who remembered having...
Woven Shibori for Textural Effects – pdf available now
I am delighted to announce that Woven Shibori for Textural Effects is now available as a downloadable pdf for 15€. I can't believe that I wrote this in 2010. That means that I have been playing with (oops, sorry - 'working on') shibori, seersucker and other...
Release the load!!
You know what it's like, I suspect.... I've had a warp on the loom that didn't like the humidity changes we experience here in France. There were lots of different yarns in stripes, which I am quite used to, but a couple, in particular, didn't want to play ball. I...
Underneath the Arches /Cloisters at La Romieu
What a wonderful weekend has just passed! It may have rained - a lot! - and blown a bit of a gale from time to time, and also had us reaching for the woollies and puffa jackets, but the visitors turned up and the atmosphere was fabulous!! It was Journées du...
National Trust partners with Madeleine Jude (weaver) and Silver Needles Contact Info
Isn't it wonderful how one thing leads on to another? Just after publishing my Honeycomb Hybrids book this week, I was contacted by Madeleine Jude, a weaver I met a few years ago. She was a student on the Diploma course run by Handweavers' Studio in London and I was...
Difference between PDF and Print-on-Demand
Sorry to blog again, but several people have asked what is the difference between a pdf and print-on-demand. Print-on-demand means that you will be getting a physical soft-cover book through the post. Postage costs and postage times vary hugely depending on where you...