Another part of me

  • Weaving flesh/Faiseur de chair

    I was lucky enough to be part of a workshop in Aubusson with Alain Chanard. Alain Chanard is a master weaver, and is known as a great « faiseur de chair », meaning he can weave faces, skins, hair… You can learn more on this here. Here are some of his tapestries (and yes, they are tapestries!) This…

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  • Best in Fiber art!

    Very proud to announce that Alice et Anita 5 has been awarded Best in Fiber Art by the Material:Hard+Soft exhibition’s jurors, in Denton, Texas. Très heureuse d’apprendre que Alice et Anita 5 a été désignée comme meilleure oeuvre textile par les jurés de Material:Hard+Soft à Denton, Texas.

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  • Alice et Anita 5 at Denton, Texas

    I’m very proud to announce that Alice et Anita 5 will be part of the 36th annual Material: Hard+Soft exhibition at the Greater Denton Arts Council from February 3 to May 6. I wish I could be there for the opening, and I hope I will get somehow some pictures of the exhibition. You can…

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  • High warp looms Métiers à tisser de haute-lisse

    I first want to say I owe a lot to Rebecca Mezoff and Christabel Balfour’s posts on the subject. In their posts, they pointed at tapestry looms you can find in the US and England. This article is about high warp tapestry looms one can find in France, and what I learnt about them. We…

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  • It has been a while!

    More than a year now! I was lazy, and very busy, catching up life after Covid. Lots have happened, but as a quick summary let’s say 2022 was Alice and Anita’ year, now on display at Galerie Dor in Aubusson. Ca fait plus d’un an! J’ai eu la flemme, j’ai été très occupée aussi à…

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  • African Textiles at Jouy-en-Josas

    I visited this exhibition in this very interesting small museum in the town of Jouy-en-Josas, in the South of Paris. There was a lot of beautiful textiles, and an interesting parallel between those and European printed textiles made in Jouy as soon as the 18th century. Une intéressante expo de textiles africains, et une mise…

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  • Women and Abstraction, Beaubourg

    I visited this exhibition at Beaubourg, and gave a special attention to textiles. Here some photos of pieces from Anni Albers, Jagoba Buic, Gunta Stolzl, Sheila Hicks. J’ai visité cette exposition à Beaubourg, Elles font l’abstraction, voici quelques photos des artistes textiles représentées, Anni Albers, Jagoba Buic, Gunta Stolzl, Sheila Hicks.

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  • El Anatsui at the Conciergerie

    El Anatsui pieces are stunning, gorgeous, never seen before. This 77 years old Ghanean artist, living in Nigeria, has been working for two decades with recycled metal, building colorful and powerful cloths. He made an installation at the Conciergerie, with arches above two rivers, stones and cloths, especially build for this location. J’ai visité cette…

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  • Tapestry workshop

    This summer, I teach an initiation tapestry class in Aubusson, to people who want to spend a day discovering the technic. I teach with the frame tensioning looms we designed with Frédérique, the core of BAˆtissons association, who organizes the workshops. It has been a pleasure to share with such interesting people, and I hope…

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  • Hidden treasure

    I recently bought this loom, sold by a man who bought it in 1982 in Guatemala. J’ai récemment acheté ce métier guatémaltèque, acquis par le vendeur en 1982 sur place. What I saw and bought, hanging on his wall since was that. Voici ce que j’ai pensé acheter, suspendu au mur. What I discovered, thanks…

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Life is short, we’re getting older” (Fred Astaire), and before it’s too late, I want to reconnect with what I always liked, and wanted to study and share: making textiles, textures and jewels. So here I am, and this blog will be a piece of the sharing part. I will try to post weekly, on what I do, but also on textiles I love, blogs I discover, books I read.

I bet I will struggle with technology, (it’s my first blog) and with English, which is not my mother tongue. I made the choice of English because the online weaving community is mostly English speaking .

Et pour vous, mes amis français, un résumé de tout ça : la vie est courte, et il y a des tas de choses que j’ai envie de faire et de partager, alors je me lance dans ce blog, on verra bien.

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