Another part of me

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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Not quite. But almost. It’s a basket made of electric wire more than 20 years ago, in South Africa (was I told). Kathe Tood-Hooker could call it shaped tapestry. Anyway, gorgeous. Pas vraiment une tapisserie, quoique… Fabriqué en Afrique du Sud, en fil de téléphone.

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As you see, the faces are finished. But I am totally unable to see how it comes. I weave from the back on a Mirrix loom, and don’t have a very good eyesigt. So I don’t know if th eyes are ok, or if they will look like clowns! Also, I had to move my…

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I bought this little kilim a while ago, at a flee market, for the blue/green part. was the weaver short of dark blue wool? Did she decide that this green was necessary?

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I bought some linen last week, and was eager to try it, so I did this little sample. I discovered that I love linen ( I already knew it), but it’s hard on the hands! The warp was a slippery cotton, 10 epi. While weaving, I found that 6 epi would have been better. As…

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