I spent the day winding bobbins for Alice et Anita 2. I’m now waiting for an order to Weaversbazaar, and I hope the colors I selected will match these ones as I expect. If so, I will begin.

J’attends des laines que j’ai commandées, et j’espère qu’elles se marieront comme je le souhaite à celles-ci. Si oui, je commence.

There will be a lot of pick and pick in the new Alice et Anita, so I’m doing some experimentations. I found that I definitly like a fine sett.

J’expérimente la technique du pick and pick ( je ne connais pas le nom français), que je vais utiliser dans Alice et Anita 2.

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I had yesterday a delicious tapestry diner with Jon and Juan. We talked about yarns, bobbins, passion, museums, Aubusson. For them, a picture of great books about kilims. So long, friends.

Merci à Jon et Juan pour ce délicieux diner autour de la tapisserie. Pour eux, quelques photos de livres de kilims.

While I was weaving Alice et Anita, I had two samplers on the side of my loom, and from time to time I did exercices.

Mes exercices.

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Celina is quickly becoming a weaver, look at what she has done!

I will have another try at the same design, but I’ll change the scale, and some other few things. I have to decide if I stick with the 12 epi sett, and how will the background look. The only certainty, the weaving will be bigger, about 40×50 cm (about 16×20 inches).

C’est reparti pour Alice et Anita, avec la même base, mais en plus grand. Reste pas mal de décisions à prendre, comment sera le fond par exemple.

So, it’s done. And it’s ugly. I am quite desapointed. The only thing I can think of is : I have to do it again. My daugter says : no, you have first to practice on the faces. Maybe. But I have to do it again. Anyway, these three months weren’t wasted, I learned a lot. But I would have prefer it to be lovable.

Bof, bof, bof….. 100 fois sur le métier……Il va falloir que je recommence, c’est parti!

I bought this kilim in Paris last week. It’s an afghan Sofreh, meaning it’s a cloth on the ground, around which people gather to eat the food put on it. The seller told me it was 60 years old, I can’t tell. But the colors are gorgeous, and the weaving expert.

Un petit craquage de kilim la semaine dernière.

I wanted to try linen, and to experiment working on two different sets on the same piece. I worked on the small Hokett loom, 12 epi, with the same linen as warp and weft. It was quickly and not so well done, but I find the result very interesting and I will come back to it.

Une expérimentation de matière (le lin) et dechaine (un fil sur deux ou deux sur quatre)

I visited last week an extraodinary exhibition at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris (till April 7th). Many baskets made of bamboo were displayed, from the middle of the 19th century to now. I’ve read on the gorgeous cataogue that these baskets are long known in the USA, but it was a first time that such a collection was viewed in Europe. One of the artist, Tanabe Chikuunsai, explained on the video that the apprenticeship for mastering bamboo art is 10 years long.

You can order the catalogue there :https://boutique.quaibranly.fr/uploads/photos/1098/2214_xl.jpg

You can find a little video here : https://youtu.be/exphqfJQWpA

Courez-y, jusqu’au 7 avril.