by StaceyW | May 17, 2020 | How I Got Into Weaving, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
NAME: Daryl Lancaster BACKSTORY: Daryl is a hand-weaver and fiber artist known for her award-winning hand-woven fabric and garments who has been constructing garments for more than 50 years!! We first came into contact with each other through Complex Weavers...
by StaceyW | Apr 28, 2020 | Art, Education, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Uncategorized, Weaving
Left to right – Stacey Harvey-Brown (colour-and-weave); Marian Stubenitsky (double cloth); Andreja Zelinka (deflected double weave) Hello everyone! Two more weeks have gone by in our ‘lockdown’ and I hope you are keeping well! It’s a...
by StaceyW | Apr 9, 2020 | Art, Education, Life, Nature, Philosophy, Psychology, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
Hello everyone, I hope that you are safe and staying well. It might be a highly unusual time that we are experiencing, but we also have an amazing opportunity in the midst of this pandemic. COVID-19 is giving us a chance to stop in our tracks and think deeply about...
by StaceyW | Oct 4, 2019 | Education, Jacquard weaving, Life, Nature, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Travel, Weaving
Autumn has been late arriving here in Gascony, South West France. It’s a lovely time of year here – the sun is still beautifully warm, the rainy days few and far between, the fields a range of yellows, browns and green which turn golden, orange and russet...
by StaceyW | Sep 20, 2019 | Art, Education, Jacquard weaving, Life, Nature, textiles, Weaving
Image: Samira Boon, Self-folding fabric. As many of you know, I am a texture fanatic. Creating dimensional surfaces in woven fabric really intrigue, delight and inspire me, often with ideas taken from nature. Philippa Brock has done a lot of research on self-folding...
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...
