Search results for: “strips”
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Community Weaving – The Picnic Rug
The Weave to Heal Project in Wingham NSW saw 24 weavers contribute to a great community project.
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Painting colours with weave
Weaving a balanced plain weave cloth.
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Travelling by Making
You don’t have to leave home to travel when you have the textile love in you.
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Weavers are like Art
Seeing weavers in the studio working on the looms reveals more than a yarn and colour or two.
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Using an Inside Set
The SAORI ‘inside set’ is one of the most versatile features of the SAORI looms. From one loom you can have many projects ongoing on many different warps. Use a set for your children to weave on while your weaving can continue uninterrupted. You can use a pre-wound warp or your own custom warp on…
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The Antidotal Script
Recently some doctors in Shetland have been writing ‘nature scripts‘. They’re prescribing walking and birdwatching for a variety of illnesses and conditions, in tandem with conventional drugs. I’m not sure what to make of this on a couple of levels! I would image that Shetland would have a shortage of GPs like we do in…
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Can’t get enough of weaving
This weekend saw the Crossing Threads duo and artist Christine Appleby brighten the studio. Kassandra and Lauren weave large commissioned art and I was interested in how this would play with a cloth weaving loom and it’s ability to weave length. Texture plus, thick threads, wools and sakiori strips made the work very lively and…
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Weavers! You are more than your rags
Weaving with rags is such a wonderful tradition. In Japan it is called sakiori. It’s one of the few things where old and worn out is a good thing. In fact it’s better than when it is new. Old worn clothing gets softer as the cloth breaks down and is laundered. The cloth I stripped…
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Sakiori Summer Weaving
I think my summer weaving is going to be centred around striping up fabric to weave. I really can’t feel right about throwing out old worn sheets and they either become painting drop sheets or yarn for weaving. With this lot I cram dyed them so I got blended colours that didn’t have that flat…