by StaceyW | May 11, 2018 | Art, Education, Nature, Uncategorized, Weaving
Bonjour à tous! This week has been a busy one – the grass will persist in growing at a rate of knots! We have several species of protected orchids in our garden (as have most people in this area of France) and we have to do our bit to keep them safe. Various...
by StaceyW | Mar 18, 2018 | Art, Education, Life, Nature, Teaching, textiles, Travel, Weaving
Spring has sprung here in SW France. The temperatures are gradually climbing, the sun is more and more apparent, the birds are singing their hearts out, and Graham is learning new culinary skills to wow our weaving students this year! Homemade marmalade is now gracing...
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 | Dec 9, 2017 | Education, Life, Teaching, Weaving
You know what it’s like, I suspect…. I’ve had a warp on the loom that didn’t like the humidity changes we experience here in France. There were lots of different yarns in stripes, which I am quite used to, but a couple, in particular,...
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...
