by StaceyW | Oct 24, 2021 | Art, Education, Jacquard weaving, Life, Philosophy, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Travel, Weaving
I’m sure we have all had what seemed to us unrealistic dreams – those ‘perhaps one day, if everything works out’ or ‘if I ever inherit some money, this is what I would do with it’ types of dreams. Well, sometimes things do just work...
by StaceyW | Sep 5, 2021 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Jacquard weaving, Life, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
NAME: Louise Lemieux Bérubé BACKSTORY: Born and raised in Montreal, Canada, Louise studied post-graduate jacquard at the Rhode Island School of Design before returning to Montreal and co-founding the Montreal Center for Contemporary Textiles which has run accredited...
by StaceyW | Mar 14, 2021 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Jacquard weaving, Life, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
NAME: Bhakti Ziek BACKSTORY: Bhakti is well-known for her wonderful jacquard weaving and that is how I first came into her sphere of influence. Together with Alice Schlein, she produced the amazing The Woven Pixel: Designing for Jacquard and Dobby looms using...
by StaceyW | Jan 17, 2021 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Jacquard weaving, Life, Nature, Teaching, textiles, Travel, Weaving
NAME: Agnes Hauptli BACKSTORY: Agnes and I first met back in 2008, at a Convergence class called the 3Ds of 3D run by Ruby Leslie. Right from the start we hit it off, two passionate weavers keen to learn whatever we could and with a shared zany sense of humour! We...
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...