I thought I’d never find tapestry books in French, I mean books about tapestry technics, because you can find a lot about tapestry history. And at last, I found three of them, they are 45 years old. Two of them were written by a traditionally trained Gobelins weaver, Julien Coffinet. You can read his biography from a vintage French magazine named Dri a di.

Enfin! J’ai enfin trouvé des bouquins sur les techniques de la tapisserie en français! Ils datent des années 70, et deux d’entre eux furent écrits par Julien Coffinet, dont vous pourrez lire la bio, extraite d’une revue d’arts textiles de l’époque , Dri a di.

It’s off the loom, made with the waste of previous weavings, no ends, linen warp, wool weft. The 2020 diary is not warped yet.

Mon tissage quotidien de 2019 commencé en septembre est terminé. Le prochain n’est pas encore sur le métier.

I spent this winter break in the Caribbeans, in Guadeloupe, my family homeland. The three of us, my mother, my daughter and me, spent hours ginning cotton. Two tall wild cotton trees are growing on my brother’s property. I harvested all the cotton linters I could, and we worked at it, listening to my mother’s souvenirs.

I’m a little behind, but I finally succeeded in posting this week!

Celina has decided to make a serie of tiles, from Turkish or Spanish or Moroccan books of tiles. She wove this one on her Olivier’s home made loom, but was not so happy of it. Symmetry is hard to manage on a small loom. So as the symmetry was going away, she decided to let it go, and slip, and here’s the result, beautiful!

Celina a décidé de se lancer dans une série inspirée de carreaux turcs, ou marocains ou espagnols. Mais comme elle a rencontré quelques problèmes avec la symétrie du truc, elle a décidé d’accompagner le dérapage, et voilà ce que ça donne: superbe! (C’est le métier construit par Olivier, le Frereche, marque déposée. )

Beautiful and efficient.

Tapettes à tapis, belles et efficaces.

I was a little under the weather this week (Thanks Jon!) , so weaving has been slow. However, for the moment it does look like I imagined it.

Ma petite dame jaune avance lentement, une petite crève m’a ralentie. Cependant, pour l’instant ça ressemble à ce que j’imaginais.

I found at my usual store a treasure of small bobbins of threads of different fibers and colors : wool, camel, silk, cashmere….. I don’t know what I will do with them, wait and see.

Au destockage de laine près de chez moi, j’ai trouvé des merveilles de petites bobines de fil de toutes sortes de fibres, soie, laine, cachemire, chameau. Je ne sais pas encore ce que j’en ferai, on verra bien.