Another part of me

  • Egyptian tapestry

    Egyptian tapestry

    I believe this tapestry comes from Egypt. I could say I inherited it from Michelle, my friend’s mother. She was a History teacher and traveled her whole life. She was also a very kind and attentive person, and a woman with values and principles. I loved her a lot. She left a lot of objects

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  • Four people sampling

    Four people sampling

    Finally not so quick and easy…. i’m using yarns I don’t know about yet, so I have to sample to see how they behave. Then, I’ve never worked at 6 epi, I have to test each kind of yarn and decide how many threads I need. The yarn I choose for one of the the

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  • Four people

    Four people

    I’m beginning a new project, 6 epi, rather simple, just for fun, but I was too short on warp, and I have to wait for my order to arrive! J’ai commencé un nouveau projet, assez simple, pour m’amuser, mais j’ai pas assez de coton pour ma chaîne! Je dois attendre ma commande….

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  • Packing kelims

    Packing kelims

    I’m moving in a few months, and beginning to pack. It allows me to have a look at some of my kelims that aren’t on display. I don’t particularly the design and colors of this one, but I’m fascinated by the weaving and the knots. It may be 60 to 100 years old, I believe

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  • Finishing is boring…..

    Finishing is boring…..

    I spent the weekend finishing pieces: sewing slits, ironing, etc….and not only boring : difficult if you want it well made. Pfffff! J’ai passé le week-end ã faire les finition de différentes pièces : coutures, rentrayage, repassage ,s rien que des trucs méticuleux et nécessaires. Boaf.

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  • Japanese print

    Japanese print

    I bought this print in Guadeloupe in the only antiquarian in Basse-Terre, his shop doesn’t exist anymore, it was thirty years ago. The print was cut at some point, a part of it is missing on the left. I don’t know what it is, if it is old or new, and what is written inside

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  • Alice and Anita 3

    Alice and Anita 3

    I have never done so much unweaving, mistakes, back and forth than for this little weaving.

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  • Jon’s doodles

    Jon’s doodles

    My friend Jon is like me a new tapestry weaver. He’s also a painter, and likes to draw colorful doodles. From one of them, he wove his first big tapestry, on a Zeus Mirrix loom. As he also was a scientist in a previous life, look at how cleverly he stored his bobbins. Jon, mon

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  • Challenges

    Challenges

    In the piece I’m weaving, The Yellow lady, there’s a lot of vertical lines. This time I didn’t go for joints and interlocks, I decided to weave the slits as I was weaving, with a linen thread joining the warp. You can see the threads hanging everywhere. It means that I have to be very

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  • Tapestry workshop

    Tapestry workshop

    I spent the weekend weaving with Laurence, in her studio in Saint-Thibault-les-vignes, 30kms from Paris. Laurence was trained in Aubusson, worked in studios in Angers, and is a skilled tapestry weaver. The weekend was great, I learned a lot, and I’m ready to use these new skills in my next tapestries. Facebook: association exprime 77

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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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