by StaceyW | Sep 22, 2010 | Education, Teaching, Weaving
Last week, we talked about pique and how it is a tie-down weave. Matelasse is very similar, but without the tie-downs, so that means you have 2 more shafts available for the pattern warp. Historically, matelasse was a quilted cloth with wadding picks in a double...
by StaceyW | Sep 19, 2010 | Art, Education, Life, Teaching, Weaving
Last week I talked about the wonderful exhibitions that Laura Thomas has curated as part of the Warp & Weft series of exhibitions and symposium that she has put on in Camarthenshire – at the Oriel Myrrdin Gallery in Camarthen, and also at the National Wool...
by StaceyW | Sep 14, 2010 | Art, Education, Teaching, Weaving
This past weekend, I have been in deepest Camarthenshire at the National Wool Museum with around 45 other weavers and curators. Laura Thomas organised a symposium specifically on weave – a rarity in the UK – and surrounded it with exhibitions, two...
by StaceyW | Sep 8, 2010 | Art, Education, Teaching, Weaving
This is a wonderful field of discovery for different textures. The areas I have focussed on so far are different setts, different yarn properties, different weave structures, different ratios. Today’s blog is a quick overview of how texture can be created...
by StaceyW | Sep 5, 2010 | Art, Education, Life, Philosophy, Travel, Weaving
Exotica. When the Midlands Textile Forum decided on this title for an exhibition to be staged at the Botanical Gardens in Birmingham, (on from now until 30th September), I had to smile! I could just imagine certain men of my acquaintance brightening up with the...
by StaceyW | Sep 1, 2010 | Teaching, Weaving
Overshot is wonderful for creating texture. The secret is to have all the floats on one side only. Where the floats are not floating, they need to be woven into the fabric. Bonnie Inouye first taught me this during the online workshop Wendy Morris and I did with...
