by StaceyW | Jul 12, 2020 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Life, Publications, Teaching, Weaving
NAME: Bonnie Inouye BACKSTORY: Bonnie Inouye’s book Exploring Multishaft Design (currently out of print) has for many weavers been the way into much more exciting cloth and learning many different techniques. I met Bonnie through Complex Weavers and her many...
by StaceyW | Jul 1, 2020 | Education, Publications, Teaching, Weaving
It’s launch day for my Beneath the Surface monograph. It’s only taken 10 years (!) but finally my monograph on stitched double cloth, with piqué, matelassé, non-chemical cloqué, and using waffle weave to create fabulous deep texture is here. It has been...
by StaceyW | Jun 28, 2020 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Life, Publications, textiles, Weaving
NAME: Janet Phillips BACKSTORY: Janet was another weaver who was always there when I first started weaving and who has stood the test of time. Her first book The Weaver’s Book of Fabric Design (1983), (her second, Designing Woven Fabrics, was published in 2008)...
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 | Jun 7, 2020 | Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Life, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Travel, Weaving
What a sobering week it has been news-wise. All lives matter and we must do what we believe to be right and to support each other against injustice and hatred wherever and whenever it shows up. I have posted my reflections in a video on my Facebook profile as I feel...
by StaceyW | May 24, 2020 | Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Life, Nature, Psychology, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
What fun it has been to look through my inbox this week! (Images: Above, Grignani 8 – optical inspiration : right B&W14 – Katharina Krönig ) One topic has been foremost and it is so exciting to have so many interesting conversations and fabulous...
