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Bhutanese Textiles ~ Up Close and Personal
Getting up close with the textiles from Bhutan is extraordinary. I can hardly see the weave with a gigantic magnifier so I’m sure I wouldn’t be able to actually weave it! The weavers are often in dimly lit rooms too. This type of weave is used in making the Kira – the womens’ national dress. The…
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Even Curiouser – The Bhutanese Tingma
A Tingma is a Bhutanese weft pattern design which uses discontinuous supplementary wefts in addition to a ground weft. This photo illustrates a lovely example this type of weave. Usually woven for the women’s dress (Kira), this is a smaller table runner size. A silk on silk textile, it looks alot like embroidery and the…
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A sentient cloth?
I know that handwoven cloth isn’t sentient but sometimes it seems ‘alive’. Vibrancy, texture and a sense of spontaneity in the yarn usually mix in such away that the cloth becomes far more than its collection of yarn. At least it seems like that when weavers take to my Saori looms. Pictured here is Christine’s cloth, but…
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Tablet Woven Complexity
Tablet weaving can be complex indeed but to start weaving it can be one of the most enjoyable achievements out. Over the years I’ve mostly used the backstrap method to weave with the cards but I think a decent and strong inkle loom does the job better because I need to be physically ‘disconnected’ to the…
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Recuperative Changes
Well I’ve been slowed down by force and now recuperating after emergency surgery. So it’s crochet and knitting, with flower origami for my daughter’s bridal bouquet thrown in, while trying to heal up over six weeks! It seems like lots of things happen all at once in life – events never seem to be pleasantly…
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Images for P2P2 – away
These are my images going to Terri in Canada. She has now received them and posted her inital thoughts here. They are a mix of the ordinary, the mundane, the extraordinary – human, built and natural..along with some apples! I think they offer interesting ideas for textiles but I’m interested to see what Terri thinks.
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The Stories Textiles Tell
This blog posting is one that I’ve been procrastinating about since I returned from Bhutan. Mainly because I didn’t know how to say what I wanted to.The loss of so many lives in the bushfires in Victoria this week gives me impetus to write. We are all vulnerable to so many things in this life…
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Tshering and the Birds Eye Weave
I know you won’t find my travel pictures boring because they are all about weave. Perhaps the little things I’ve noticed on my trip can be noticed here in Australia too, if I only look about for it. But when you go to a country where textiles count it just seems to mean so much.…
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Tshewang of Khoma – The Curious Adventure Continued
It’s always a plus to meet a weaver who has woven a textile that I can now have on my table at home so I can feel a link to her.Meet Tshewang from the village of Khoma in Bhutan. This village was quite remote, at least in Australian terms which is really saying something. A…