Another part of me

I thought I’d never find tapestry books in French, I mean books about tapestry technics, because you can find a lot about tapestry history. And at last, I found three of them, they are 45 years old. Two of them were written by a traditionally trained Gobelins weaver, Julien Coffinet. You can read his biography…

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It’s off the loom, made with the waste of previous weavings, no ends, linen warp, wool weft. The 2020 diary is not warped yet. Mon tissage quotidien de 2019 commencé en septembre est terminé. Le prochain n’est pas encore sur le métier.

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I spent this winter break in the Caribbeans, in Guadeloupe, my family homeland. The three of us, my mother, my daughter and me, spent hours ginning cotton. Two tall wild cotton trees are growing on my brother’s property. I harvested all the cotton linters I could, and we worked at it, listening to my mother’s…

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I’m a little behind, but I finally succeeded in posting this week! Celina has decided to make a serie of tiles, from Turkish or Spanish or Moroccan books of tiles. She wove this one on her Olivier’s home made loom, but was not so happy of it. Symmetry is hard to manage on a small…

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Beautiful and efficient. Tapettes à tapis, belles et efficaces.

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I was a little under the weather this week (Thanks Jon!) , so weaving has been slow. However, for the moment it does look like I imagined it. Ma petite dame jaune avance lentement, une petite crève m’a ralentie. Cependant, pour l’instant ça ressemble à ce que j’imaginais.

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I found at my usual store a treasure of small bobbins of threads of different fibers and colors : wool, camel, silk, cashmere….. I don’t know what I will do with them, wait and see. Au destockage de laine près de chez moi, j’ai trouvé des merveilles de petites bobines de fil de toutes sortes…

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