Category: RailReed

  • Can’t get enough of weaving

    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…

  • Paper Saori + Railreed

    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…

  • The Rail Reed and other distorted ponderings

    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…