by StaceyW | Nov 17, 2010 | Jacquard weaving, Life, Weaving
This week I’ve made a start on weaving my Christmas Cards – again. Yes, this is the third attempt! Hopefully this one will work! The first version was an angel – woven on one of my hand-jacquard sample looms, known as Baby #3. Unfortunately, I...
by StaceyW | Oct 3, 2010 | Education, Jacquard weaving, Life, Nature, Teaching, Travel, Weaving
Last weekend a group of us joined together in Devon to attend Alice Schlein’s Woven Pixel workshop for 3 days. We were blessed with wonderful weather, great company, and a tremendous learning experience. Alice is a very patient and skilled tutor with Photoshop...
by StaceyW | Jun 12, 2010 | Art, Education, Jacquard weaving, Life, Weaving
What do jacquard cards and pigsties have in common? Well, nothing really, except that I’m writing about both in today’s blog!! Today we uncovered some history in our garden, and I found, by chance, a link to a blog showing jacquard cards used in an...
by StaceyW | Jan 11, 2010 | Art, Education, Jacquard weaving, Teaching, Travel, Weaving
I am sitting in my hotel room overlooking the bay towards the old Kuwait City. Through the heat haze and the dust raised by the building works in the city, mingled with the higher dust raised by troops in the desert, I can see the murky outlines of some stunning high...
by StaceyW | Dec 5, 2009 | Jacquard weaving, Life, Philosophy, Psychology, Travel, Weaving
Sorry to republish this, but I was asked by Dusan from Arahne to make it clear that Arahne did not charge for my phone calls, but that I was referring to my telecoms provider. I am more than happy to clarify that, with my apologies if anyone read it that way. I also...
by StaceyW | Nov 21, 2009 | Jacquard weaving, Teaching, Weaving
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...
