by StaceyW | Jan 23, 2011 | Art, Education, Life, Philosophy, Psychology
Did that get your attention? I thought it might. What I’m talking about this week is something that raises temperatures, emotions and voices. Why is it that the small proportion of men in textiles seem to get lots of attention and publicly lauded? This question...
by StaceyW | Jan 9, 2011 | Art, Education, Life, Philosophy, Teaching, Weaving
Wow! I nearly fell off my chair when I picked up the latest edition of Crafts magazine from the Crafts Council. There was a 4 page excerpt from the coalition government’s minister of state for further education, skills and lifelong learning, John Hayes,...
by StaceyW | Jan 2, 2011 | Art, Education, Life, Nature, Philosophy, Psychology, Travel, Weaving
I’m very excited about 2011. Not about the financial and political situation we find ourselves in – we don’t have much control over the bigger picture there – but about things that we do have control over – our choices and how we choose...
by StaceyW | Dec 19, 2010 | Art, Education, Life, Nature
Like so many people I know, I’ve spent a large part of the last week in bed with proper flu. It’s left a lingering chesty cough and I was a little concerned about how I would cope with playing tenor sax for the Trent River Big Band who were performing...
by StaceyW | Oct 27, 2010 | Art, Education, Teaching, Weaving
Combined single and double cloths is one of my favourite methods of creating textural weaving because of the immediate possibility of tension differences between the more compact single cloth areas compared to the looser double cloth construction. With handweaving,...
by StaceyW | Oct 10, 2010 | Art, Education, Life, Travel, Weaving
I was in London earlier this week to review the London Guild of Weavers, Spinners & Dyers ‘Diamond’ exhibition, celebrating their 60th year. The exhibition is only on for 1 week, so by the time you read this, you’ll be unlikely to be able to...
