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 | 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 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...
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...
