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I spent the summer in Canada, and came back with a bunch of yummy yarns. I don’t know what I will do with these wonderfuls threads, I have to wind and sample them to get an idea. For sure, some will stay for months or years in their boxes. Doesn’t matter, yarns are like books,…
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Not exactly a loom, more a large frame, one of the millions old looms in the world. It has now a new home, I washed it, waxed it and mounted it with the help of Celina and Olivier. I was first disappointed because I was told that such a large frame without tensioning system wouldn’t…
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Celina admires this artist, and she is planning to pay hommage to him in a tapestry. She did this sample to try her hand at windows. She first considered to make them with soumak ( the bottom window) but after seeing the hommage to Louise Martin woven by my friend Jon, she decided to go…
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You may know, if you follow that blog, that I spent this summer weaving Link, who is the a character of the LoZ. My daughter made this fanart piece, that I fell in love with, and I decided to weave it. ( You can find the original digital art here) I first made my cartoon,…
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I found this as usual in a flea market, in Paris, about 6 years ago, sweet memories of this moment shared with my mother and my niece Aina. This piece of textile is beautifully and neatly framed (7×10 cm) with exotic wood and silver. The design has a forties ( or sixties?) look to me.…
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It’s a place in Toronto where a 1850 village has been re-created. You can learn more here. I had the chance to see there an outside exhibition of quilts, more info there. I wil never make quilts, but as often, I’m in awe of human skills and creativity. Une fabuleuse expo de patchworks à Toronto.
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My daughter loves to draw Fanart of the video games she loves, like The legend of Zelda. I love my daughter’s art. So I decided to make a tapestry from one of her production, and to give it to her for her birthday. It’s now off the loom, and not so bad, and I think…
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My Airbnb in Toronto is a cave, so I spend some time weaving in a park. It’s a real pleasure to weave outside, feeling the wind, hearing people talking and laughing. The hardest part is to find each day the convenient table, shady and not to close to the street. Sometimes people approach me and…
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I love the red color of this kilim. Turkisk I bet, powerful with only four colors. Yellow and white or rose have faded, not the brown. The warp is cotton, the weft seems hand spun wool, thick and shiny. The kilim shows some repairs, and at some places the warp is visible. In their book,…
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When I came back from my first workshop from Aubusson, I hadn’t heard of Mirrix yet. So I thought I would lately buy a low warp loom, and I begun to find equipment meeting this goal. I first bought (second hand and very cheap) these tools whose name I don’t know in English. The cycle…
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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