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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 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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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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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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Siffrin is an @insertdisc5’s original character, from their game Start again : a prologue. I wanted to weave this character, but I’m not totally satisfied of this piece, I will redo it soon. However, better done than perfect, there it is. Siffrin est un personnage créé par @insertdisc5 dans son jeu Start again : a
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i’m taking a class from Kathe Todd-Hooker, she’s a soumak expert, you can find a work here. As you will see on this sample, I’m very far from mastering her skills! J’apprends à utiliser le soumak avec Kathe Todd-Hooker, qui en est l’experte aux USA, son travail est visible là. Il est évident sur cet
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CMTB is a tapestry weaver who was influenced in the 70’ by the work of Polish weavers. I visited her studio in Vendée where she kindly received me. You can follow her work here. CMTB est une artiste licière très influencée par les artistes polonais des années 70. Elle m’a très gentiment reçu dans son
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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