by StaceyW | Dec 23, 2009 | Art, Education, Life, Psychology, Teaching, Weaving
Just recently, I woke up and looked out of the bedroom window onto a beautiful morning – low winter sun shining on the willow tree forming a tracery of orange against the clear blue sky…. Orange?! Look again – yes! Orange! Bright, vivid, ineffably orange....
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...
by StaceyW | Sep 13, 2009 | Education, Teaching, Travel, Weaving
Thursday was a big day for handweavers in the UK. Or at least for some of us! Handweavers Studio, which was the brainchild and baby of Nancy Lee Child, was re-opened in a new more central location with a lot more space and under new management. Nancy has finally...
by StaceyW | Aug 30, 2009 | Education, Jacquard weaving, Life, Teaching, Travel
I don’t often write about what I’m up to, but the reason you haven’t heard from me in the last 2 weeks is because I’ve been in Montreal. I ostensibly booked a week on the intermediate jacquard course with Louise Lemieux Berube at the Centre...
by StaceyW | Jun 14, 2009 | Education, Jacquard weaving, Life, Teaching, Weaving
You know how there sometimes seems to be a time when many things relating to the same subject seem to slot into place – whether it is a political mood such as we saw in the US and in the UK and elsewhere during this recession, or a vogue for an artform such as glass...
by StaceyW | Mar 8, 2009 | Jacquard weaving, Life, Philosophy, Teaching, Weaving
One of the lessons that weaving teaches is patience. All kinds of patience – the ‘take a deep breath and count to 10’ patience when something easily preventable happens; the ‘am I dedicated enough to the quality of this piece that I unweave those picks to sort...
