Another part of me

  • Manuèle’s library

    Manuèle’s library

    As you you know if you attentively this blog, my friend Manuèle has begun to draw with pastel. She decided to draw her library, and will soon do it with water colors. Si vous lisez attentivement ce blog, vous savez déjà que mon amie Manuèle s’est mise au pastels secs. Elle a décidé de dessiner

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  • Sustainable diary 2

    Sustainable diary 2

    I don’t want to throw away the yarn leftovers of my tapestries. So, for the second time now, I decided to weave them. The rules : weave most of the what I have, wedge weave, rows of the same height. It’s not really a diary, since it will take me a few days. But it’s

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  • A Sunday with Silvia Heyden again

    A Sunday with Silvia Heyden again

    I spent the day weaving this, thanks to a fellow weaver who sent close up of my inspiration piece from Silvia Heyden. I also learnt that she wove mostly with linen, so did I. ( but I prefer wool for wedge weave) . So here it is. J’ai passé mon dimanche encore avec Silvia Heyden.

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  • Wedge weave the Silvia Heyden’s way

    Wedge weave the Silvia Heyden’s way

    I’m a huge fan of Silvia Heyden, and her tapestries are still for me a mystery. That’s the reason why I decided to try my hand at it. I first begun with a free weaving, being cautious to use like her a very limited range of colors. The warp is wool, as is the weft.

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  • My helps

    My helps

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  • Four People off the loom

    Four People off the loom

    Done. The weaving begun as a simple experiment. It will now stay forever as the witness and the help in hard times. My lines are not very smooth, and I could have worked more on the design, but it was just an enlarged doodle, an exercice with some technical goals. I reached some of the

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  • Celina’s progress with Hundertwasser

    Celina’s progress with Hundertwasser

    She is weaving an hommage to this architect, she reached the first floor this week.

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  • Experimenting wedge weave

    Experimenting wedge weave

    Since I discovered Silvia Heyden (have a look there: https://vimeo.com/25136243), I wanted to give a try at wedge weave. To be honest, I tried, and failed. I tried again this week ( you know the proverb), and wove two different little things. One quite ugly, red and beige, on wool warp, but for the first

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  • Anatomy of a sample

    Anatomy of a sample

    Planning for Four People, I started a sample. I wanted to test the wool I had bought, to give a try to the triangles for my frame, to see how colors matched together. Then, I tried a Rebecca Mezoff exercise about hills and valley turns for smooth lines. Finally, I wove the first three-ply wool

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  • The last one

    The last one

    I’m quite struggling with this one, and I don’t know how I will finish him/her. Light or dark blue? And I’m awfully sure the triangles of both sides won’t match. To each day its burden, we’ll see. C’est le dernier des 4, et je coince un peu pour le/la finir. Bleu foncé ou bleu clair?

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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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