Famous Seconds

With the woven panels of the Thread Project being displayed at St. Pauls Chapel New York, I thought I would send a press release to the local paper, The Manning River Times. And what wonderful work they did. The story appeared in the next days edition and I was interviewed by ABC Radio.

So I was ‘famous’ for a few minutes!

One thing that has struck me as a weaver on the project is the great variety of looms that these cloths have been woven on. From the simplest frames and backstraps to a compu-dobby like mine they all require only skill to get wonderful cloth. Looms are irrelevant to skillful weaving – its the people that use them that create wonderful textiles. This is what I love about weaving, it’s a humbling craft. More about human ingenuity than specific technology.

If you go to the photo album on the Thread Project site you’ll see lots of photos of different looms used to produce the cloth.

I’ve included a photo of Terry Helwig the founder of the project surrounded by a sampling of 8 of the 49 cloths.