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 5, 2010 | Art, Education, Life, Philosophy, Travel, Weaving
Exotica. When the Midlands Textile Forum decided on this title for an exhibition to be staged at the Botanical Gardens in Birmingham, (on from now until 30th September), I had to smile! I could just imagine certain men of my acquaintance brightening up with the...
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 | Aug 11, 2010 | Education, Teaching, Weaving
I promised to send attendees at my seminar “Beneath the Surface” – textures in double cloth, that I would send you the Resources page of my presentation. If you would like to receive this, please email me at stacey@theloomroom.co.uk and I will email...
by StaceyW | Jun 30, 2010 | Art, Education, Teaching, Weaving
Last week we looked at introducing textural elements into your plain weave to give instant changes. This week, we are looking at a technique called Warp Repp. This is a fabric where the warp yarns are so closely sett to each other that the weft yarn cannot be seen. ...
