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...
by StaceyW | Jun 11, 2019 | Art, Book Review, Education, Life, Nature, Philosophy, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Travel, Weaving
This summer we are having a great time at The Loom Room France with weaving guests and non-weavers alike. The cherries have now been supplanted by the emerging plum harvest, and the swallows have now finished constructing their nest and are laying a number of eggs so...
