Category: RailReed
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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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Paper Saori + Railreed
Many pluses for me on this weaving project. Indigo dyed paper yarns, Ikat dyeing and the Railreed working together on the Saori loom. This is a long art piece with monofiliment and other fibres too. I’ve written about my other experiments previously but I think I like this one the best so far. It’s the…
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The Rail Reed and other distorted ponderings
There’s a saying that ‘when you don’t know what to do, do what you know.’ It’s more about maintaining a hold on life and dealing with suffering and as a general mantra for holding yourself together. But it works, for me, even when I am doing what I know…in my case – weaving. So I’m approaching this…