by StaceyW | 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 StaceyW | Jun 14, 2020 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Life, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
NAME: Ann Richards BACKSTORY: Ann has been a part of my weaving life from the almost the beginning – certainly in my second year of weaving I remember picking up a book co-authored by Ann Sutton and Diane Sheehan called Ideas in Weaving and seeing a lovely...
by StaceyW | May 31, 2020 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Life, textiles, Weaving
NAME: Lillian Whipple BACKSTORY: I first met Lillian whilst getting off an escalator at a weaving conference – I can’t remember which one now! A lady approached me with a lovely smile, holding out a tiny woven motif and said “I don’t think...
by StaceyW | Apr 28, 2020 | Art, Education, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Uncategorized, Weaving
Left to right – Stacey Harvey-Brown (colour-and-weave); Marian Stubenitsky (double cloth); Andreja Zelinka (deflected double weave) Hello everyone! Two more weeks have gone by in our ‘lockdown’ and I hope you are keeping well! It’s a...
by StaceyW | Apr 9, 2020 | Art, Education, Life, Nature, Philosophy, Psychology, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
Hello everyone, I hope that you are safe and staying well. It might be a highly unusual time that we are experiencing, but we also have an amazing opportunity in the midst of this pandemic. COVID-19 is giving us a chance to stop in our tracks and think deeply about...
by StaceyW | Sep 20, 2019 | Art, Education, Jacquard weaving, Life, Nature, textiles, Weaving
Image: Samira Boon, Self-folding fabric. As many of you know, I am a texture fanatic. Creating dimensional surfaces in woven fabric really intrigue, delight and inspire me, often with ideas taken from nature. Philippa Brock has done a lot of research on self-folding...
