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...
by StaceyW | Jun 2, 2019 | Art, Education, Jacquard weaving, Life, Nature, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
Happy Summertime! After strong spring sunshine in February (3 weeks), March (3 weeks) and then back to more wintry chills in April and some of May, we are now at the right time of year, with sizzling temperatures, fruiting trees, and new chicks on the way. Weaving...
by StaceyW | Feb 3, 2019 | Art, Book Review, Education, Publications
Craft Economies Ed Susan Luckman and Nicola Thomas (2018) London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic ‘Comprising a collection of 20 essays from 28 academics, practitioners, Craft Economies spans a wide landscape of craft practices, sites and forms of making from...
by StaceyW | Jan 26, 2019 | Art, Book Review, Education, Life, Philosophy, Psychology, Publications
Steal Like an Artist – 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative Austin Kleon 2012 New York: Workman Publishing If you’re like me, I have always been aware that to copy is a cardinal sin for an artist, and yet, as a classical musician, that is what I was...
by StaceyW | Jan 20, 2019 | Art, Book Review, Education, Jacquard weaving, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Travel, Weaving
Pattern & Loom: a practical study of the development of weaving techniques in China, Western Asia and Europe John Becker (with collaboration of Donald B. Wagner) Nias Press 2nd edition 2014 It’s taken me a long time to read this book. I remember posting...
by StaceyW | Dec 16, 2018 | Art, Education, Jacquard weaving, Life, Nature, Psychology, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Travel, Weaving
The end of the year always leads to reflection, and this year I was reading through the essays that I wrote for my MA coursework. Each year we were required to write an essay on contextual studies that we had done through the year, and for my first year, I selected...
