Swap shop
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 students don't...
Magical lives
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, I see so much...
Flashback
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, remembering vividly...
Therapeutic Cleaning
Cleaning in our house needs to be done when we see it needs to be done. Obviously, if I have students booked in or we have weekend guests, then it needs to be done. Other than that, people have to take us as they find us. For me, cleaning takes time away from...
Autumn
Autumn is most definitely with us now. In the last two weeks, the weather has got progressively colder, and the days shorter, although we have only had one real day of rain here in the middle of England. The sun is much lower in the sky and walking Charlie in the...
British Ceramics Biennale
This is a long post as I want to tell you about an important local event. This weekend was the start of the British Ceramics Biennale in Stoke-on-Trent. This initiative, in the home of British Ceramics, is a tremendous event both for ceramics in the UK and also for...
Random Ruminations
A couple of days ago I was threading up my loom, listening to my Zen (similar to an iPod) which was randomly selecting tunes from my collection of classical, jazz and popular music. It’s a great way to listen, never knowing whether the next track will be some Brahms,...
Women in Philosophy
In this quarter’s Philosophy Magazine, there is an article asking Where Are All the Women? Whilst there are roughly even numbers of men and women studying philosophy at undergraduate level, that number begins to have a male bias at MA level, and more so at PhD level,...
Handweavers Studio – London
Thursday was a big day for handweavers in the UK. Or at least for some of us! Handweavers Studio, which was the brainchild and baby of Nancy Lee Child, was re-opened in a new more central location with a lot more space and under new management. Nancy has finally...