by StaceyW | Feb 4, 2018 | Education, Life, textiles, Travel
Photo credit: unknown – Source Pinterest This morning, I found myself back in the souk in Muscat, Oman, ten years ago and all I did was open the lid of a new shower cream! A single smell can transport you back in time in the blink of an eye – for me, the...
by StaceyW | Jan 21, 2018 | Education, Jacquard weaving, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
My new-to-me Dutch table loom with 16 shafts, all warped up and ready to weave. Isn’t it wonderful when someone reminds you of something you did a long time ago and that you had forgotten about? My sincere thanks go to Monica, a recent student, who remembered...
by StaceyW | Dec 22, 2017 | Art, Education, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
I am delighted to announce that Woven Shibori for Textural Effects is now available as a downloadable pdf for 15€. I can’t believe that I wrote this in 2010. That means that I have been playing with (oops, sorry – ‘working on’) shibori,...
by StaceyW | Sep 22, 2017 | Art, Education, Life, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
What a wonderful weekend has just passed! It may have rained – a lot! – and blown a bit of a gale from time to time, and also had us reaching for the woollies and puffa jackets, but the visitors turned up and the atmosphere was fabulous!! It was Journées...
by StaceyW | Aug 13, 2017 | Education, Life, Nature, textiles, Travel, Weaving
Isn’t it wonderful how one thing leads on to another? Just after publishing my Honeycomb Hybrids book this week, I was contacted by Madeleine Jude, a weaver I met a few years ago. She was a student on the Diploma course run by Handweavers’ Studio in...
by StaceyW | Jul 29, 2017 | Education, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
Sorry to blog again, but several people have asked what is the difference between a pdf and print-on-demand. Print-on-demand means that you will be getting a physical soft-cover book through the post. Postage costs and postage times vary hugely depending on where you...
