by StaceyW | Apr 12, 2009 | Art, Life, Philosophy, Psychology, Weaving
I am intrinsically a loner, except when I’m with other weavers. It’s not that I’m socially inept – far from it, I hope – but that I choose whose company I wish to be in. I can occasionally do ‘hail fellow, well met’ types of conversation, but general girly...
by StaceyW | Mar 29, 2009 | Life, Philosophy, Weaving
Time is something we feel we have so little of, and we frantically rush around trying to get things done in the time that we have. But of course, time is an artificial construct – a man-made construct which is supposed to be there to be a framework. Yet, as with so...
by StaceyW | Mar 26, 2009 | Life, Philosophy, Weaving
I’ve recently been posting about listening to what’s going on in nature around me when I’m walking, and I was really pleased to see a whole section in the 2nd edition of 2009 of TPM – The Philosophers’ Magazine – about coming to our...
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...
by StaceyW | Feb 23, 2009 | Travel, Weaving
I susbscribe to VAV Magasinet. This is a recent subscription and during my perusal of the latest VAV magazine, I realised how narrow my awareness of the weaving world actually is. I thought that I was relatively up on weaving traditions internationally, but then I...
by StaceyW | Feb 15, 2009 | Life, Philosophy, Psychology, Teaching, Weaving
I love words. They have the power to harm or to heal, to empower or to reduce, to inspire or to deflate. I try to write a journal most days and I do that in the mornings, before the day’s tasks and “must dos” get in the way. It’s a stream of consciousness thing –...
