by StaceyW | May 24, 2020 | Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Life, Nature, Psychology, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
What fun it has been to look through my inbox this week! (Images: Above, Grignani 8 – optical inspiration : right B&W14 – Katharina Krönig ) One topic has been foremost and it is so exciting to have so many interesting conversations and fabulous...
by StaceyW | Nov 24, 2019 | Education, Life, Nature, Publications, Teaching, Travel, Weaving
Hello all! The teaching season may well be behind us for this year, but things are very busy here in The Loom Room France. Firstly, the 2020 dates are now available!! You can find them here. I’m delighted to say that one Honeycomb Hybrid course is already fully...
by StaceyW | Oct 4, 2019 | Education, Jacquard weaving, Life, Nature, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Travel, Weaving
Autumn has been late arriving here in Gascony, South West France. It’s a lovely time of year here – the sun is still beautifully warm, the rainy days few and far between, the fields a range of yellows, browns and green which turn golden, orange and russet...
by StaceyW | Jun 11, 2019 | Art, Book Review, Education, Life, Nature, Philosophy, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Travel, Weaving
This summer we are having a great time at The Loom Room France with weaving guests and non-weavers alike. The cherries have now been supplanted by the emerging plum harvest, and the swallows have now finished constructing their nest and are laying a number of eggs so...
by StaceyW | Oct 6, 2010 | Education, Teaching, Weaving
I wrote last week about the most familiar version of stitched double cloth – where a single warp end from one of the two layers is woven in with one pick of the other layer, so tieing the two cloths together at that point. There are other ways to achieve a...