Another part of me

Celina is quickly becoming a weaver, look at what she has done!

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I will have another try at the same design, but I’ll change the scale, and some other few things. I have to decide if I stick with the 12 epi sett, and how will the background look. The only certainty, the weaving will be bigger, about 40×50 cm (about 16×20 inches). C’est reparti pour Alice

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So, it’s done. And it’s ugly. I am quite desapointed. The only thing I can think of is : I have to do it again. My daugter says : no, you have first to practice on the faces. Maybe. But I have to do it again. Anyway, these three months weren’t wasted, I learned a

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I bought this kilim in Paris last week. It’s an afghan Sofreh, meaning it’s a cloth on the ground, around which people gather to eat the food put on it. The seller told me it was 60 years old, I can’t tell. But the colors are gorgeous, and the weaving expert. Un petit craquage de

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I wanted to try linen, and to experiment working on two different sets on the same piece. I worked on the small Hokett loom, 12 epi, with the same linen as warp and weft. It was quickly and not so well done, but I find the result very interesting and I will come back to

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I visited last week an extraodinary exhibition at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris (till April 7th). Many baskets made of bamboo were displayed, from the middle of the 19th century to now. I’ve read on the gorgeous cataogue that these baskets are long known in the USA, but it was a first time

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I am so fond of tapestry weaving that I am trying to build a weaver’s community around me. The first to enroll was Celina, here is her work, she did great! The second one, surprisingly, was Françoise, who never claimed to love making arts and crafts, and who wove by herself this cute little piece

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I am almost there with Alice et Anita, but…..It has been three times that I unwove the hand on the right side, and I’m still not getting it. I follow the cartoon, missing the form I’m aiming to design, and when I’ succeding at one part, I forgot the mistake I did and I do

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We spent an afternoon together (and an evening), talking of our loved ones, gossiping, swearing after our yarn, eating cakes and Madeleines, weaving. Thank you girls. Merci les filles, quel beau moment.

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It was a company of 600 workers, mostly weavers, at the beginning of the 20th century. It is now like a sleeping beauty, still a familiy owned company, with 6 people trying to keep it alive. Visiting it, you can be sad looking at the empty studios, or flabbergasted by the shelves of wool. Anyway,

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