Another part of me

Thank you for these beautiful slippers you knitted. This post is a tribute to all these quiet and silent and so skilled women. Merci à toutes les discrètes tricoteuses du monde

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I wish I will one day be as skilled as the woman who wove this bag. She mastered all sorts of technics, and had such a sense of color! My bet is it comes from Persia. Un jour je saurai tisser aussi bien que la femme qui a conçu ce sac!

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I was lucky enough one day to find this little piece of japanese ikat. The whole cloth is 10 cm x10 cm, every pattern is so precise, I would like to know the detailed process for making it. Un ikat de soie japonais, d’une grande précision.

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Here are Alice and Anita so far.

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When I bought this tapestry, years ago, I’ve been told that it was an Alep kelim. For a long time I was sure that I will one day visit Alep after retirement, and see others kelims like this one. I know now I will never go to Alep, which no longer exists. The beauty of

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I am preparing for a new project, way to ambitious for my skills. I know I will struggle and partly fail, because I don’t have a clue on how I will weave some parts of the piece. Even the beginning is a mess, with erratic heddles and curvy foundation. I don’t care, my only challenge

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I was lucky enough to buy those beautiful tools from Millissa Dewey and Jim Hokett, from the US and Dave Brown from Australia. But I noticed those skilled makers were all three in their seventies. Who are the new craftsmen and women? Where are they? If you you one, let me know. Qui connait la

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I began a sampler of my project, because I thought the mouth would be a trick. It was. But the shape of the chin……Sigh…..Tomorrow I will do it again, because, when you compare the sketch and the tapestry, oh boy! Quand on est confronté à son manque de compétence, faire et défaire…

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My warped loom (that was not so easy!). In the middle, the main project will soon appear. On the blue warp, exercices : I am taking an online class with Rebecca Mezzof, it will be my homework place. On the right, this narrow warp will be for samples : my project is too difficult for

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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

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