by StaceyW | Nov 21, 2010 | Education, Publications, Teaching, Weaving
Only 24 hours to go until publication of my monograph, Woven Shibori for Textural Effects! It’s really exciting! There is nothing quite as thrilling as seeing your first authorial efforts in print! So that means that there are only 24 hours to go to get the...
by StaceyW | Nov 14, 2010 | Education, Publications, Teaching, Weaving
Have you noticed that this winter, cosmetics houses are focussing on the ‘feel’ factor of make-up? Satins, sables, and velvet are just some of the textures they are using to describe their products. As textile people we know that touch can override all...
by StaceyW | Oct 27, 2010 | Art, Education, Teaching, Weaving
Combined single and double cloths is one of my favourite methods of creating textural weaving because of the immediate possibility of tension differences between the more compact single cloth areas compared to the looser double cloth construction. With handweaving,...
