Category: Design
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Weaving with shaping
Experimental weaving to create a sense of shadow and stiffness in the fabric have recently taken me to interesting places.
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Weave with Me! Sketch a daily Saori weave
An invitation Weaving is like any other artistic practice which needs a practice behind it. Saori weaving really is a practice for the hands, mind and body. The process is the practice. In Saori weaving we really don’t sample as we would in more conventional approaches to weaving. We just weave in the moment and…
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Face your popularity – Woven popularity weave
Facebook is a difficult planet for me. I’m pretty sure I’m the only one on the planet with these feelings. I just don’t know how to be comfortable there. I’m not sure who or what are friends when its seen as a place for sharing such intimate moments of life. Many people have ‘rules’ about…
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Doodling as textile design
Printing your own textiles is so achievable now with bureaus like Spoonflower. I’ve been working on the perfect design for over a year now, and realising that it will never see reality have rashly submitted a couple of designs based on a scan of native grasses and a seamless tiled and re-coloured image of a drawing that my niece did. I’m…
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Shibori Architecture – Sydney
Design…it’s all around us. I’ve just spent last week walking around Sydney. The city is just full of sensory overload for me and I can hardly take it all it. It feels like I’m on drugs (although I’ve had limited experience on this one, I’ve got an imagination for the experience). When you live in…
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Quick Experimentals
I’m taking each of the images now and looking at what I could do. I’ve received them digitally but when I get them in the post I’ll look at doing a bit of drawing. I thought this purple image was of some sort of whacky grapes but Geodyne mentions Arran Victory potatoes! This year these…
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It’s on again P2p2
It’s on again…the Pics to Picks challenge, mark 2. See here my 2010 challenge adventure. Meg has been busy organising 19 weavers to explore photographic or other types of imagery for weave design inspiration. Each weaver receives inspiration from someone and gives inspiration to another. I’m to inspire Terri in Canada and will receive my…
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When little designers grow up
Guess what? A little potential designer that I taught in my studio years ago as a young girl has all grown up – into a designer. And a textile designer at that. Chela Edmunds, now living in New York, is developing lovely designs, and knowing that she started to weave so young gives me so much confidence about…
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Old Bar – Art and Community
I live in a small town called Old Bar beach so I was over the moon seeing some artwork decorating the humble toilet block at the beach. The architechure in our town is very basic and always lacks vitality and design….but now look what can be done!It is a beautiful ocean imagery in a flowing…