Another part of me

  • February 2021

    February 2021

    I’m behind, I know…. Je sais, je sais, je suis en retard. What happened? Alice et Anita are progressing. The kilim, not so much. Alice et Anita progressent. Le kilim, pas tellement. Françoise is becoming a (almost) professional sewer. Françoise est en train de devenir une couturière professionnelle (presque). Jon has finished his gorgeous Palm

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  • Four Alices

    Four Alices

    I did four of them, trying to catch Alice’s sadness. I think the fourth captured it. J’ai fait quatre tapisseries, pour tenter de refléter la tristesse d’Alice. Je pense que la quatrième y arrive.

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  • Christmas 1933

    Christmas 1933

    I was honored to be invited of this Tolkien tapestry at the Cité de la tapisserie in Aubusson. I was invited there by my friend Julie who was one of the weavers. Two studios worked together, Julie’s on Willyarn, and the Just’lissières. It was moving and beautiful, so I’ll just let you watch the photos.

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  • January 2021

    January 2021

    I didn’t post a lot in January, but a lot of things happened. I began my two big tapestries, the kilim and Alice et Anita 7. I attended my first cuting (unlooming? Cut-off? Whatever) ceremony at the Cité de la tapisserie; and my friends did a lot of things too. I will dedicate a post

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  • Kilim 2021

    Kilim 2021

    I decided to try to replicate a kilim I love. I began by a thorough observation, and found right away that I would have to downsize my ambitions. The kilim has a wool warp and is woven at a sett of approximately 16 epi. As it will be for me a first at weaving at

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  • Just in time!

    Just in time!

    I wrote I will post once a month, and I nearly missed it! I’m not posting, but I’m weaving a lot. I warped the Leclerc loom for the second time (I have still some warp tension issues…), and I’m studying and sampling for the big Alice and Anita. Some of the samples turned ok, some

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  • 20 fois sur le métier

    20 fois sur le métier

    “Make haste slowly, and without losing courageTwenty times on the loom, hand over your work,Polish it constantly, and polish it again,Add sometimes, and erase often”. “Hâtez-vous lentement, et sans perdre courage,Vingt fois sur le métier remettez votre ouvrage,Polissez-le sans cesse, et le repolissez,Ajoutez quelquefois, et souvent effacez”. Nicolas Boileau I intend to weave a big

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  • Anita 1 and 2, and soon 3

    Anita 1 and 2, and soon 3

    I’m sampling for a bigger piece that I hopefully weave in the year to come. They were done on my Mirrix, and I’m currently working on the third one on my big Leclerc loom. Je fais des études pour une grande tapisserie, que j’espère tisser dans l’année à venir. Elles ont été faites sur mon

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  • Snoopy

    Snoopy

    I have a new padawan, Frédérique, and like the others she is very talented. Her first tapestry was a little house, the second one is a Snoopy, as a gift to someone close to her. Her weavings are neat and precise, with a great sense of color. Welcome to the tapestry world, and bravo. J’ai

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  • Slowing down

    Slowing down

    As you have already noticed, I don’t post every week anymore. Beginning today, I will commit to one post a month. I don’t want constraints anymore, especially self inflicted ones. Today, just a picture of my tidy studio ( in fact half of my living room), with a huge space made for my new Leclerc

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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 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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