Category: Saori
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Farewell Misao Jo sensei
Misao Jo – Saori Founder (1913-2018) “All flowers are beautiful, even though each individual flower is different in form and color. Because of this difference, “all are good”. Because everything has the same life, life cannot be measured by a yardstick. It is this individuality that makes everything meaningful and the uniqueness of each…
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Childs play
Weaving can be child’s play, for both children and adults. It’s the time of year where my little people converge in my studio to play with all things weaving, art and pasting. I don’t have much courage with glitter but maybe tomorrow. This is a woven piece, almost accidentally woven together by my 4.7 year…
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2017 – Where did it go?
I’ve just seen the finish of the last workshop for 2017. Where did that year go? The weekend workshop was intimate and great. Such different weaves created by the participants. At one point they were all so engrossed in the task that there was no talking! We see lots of weaving words making connections to…
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Saori pattern cutting
I’ve just finished the garment that Masako designed with my fabric in Japan. There were a couple of moments with it. For one, a double row of fast machine stitching which had to be unpicked on the open weave piece of the garment without cutting the warp or weft threads. Unpicking can be difficult but…
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Japan and Saori no Mori
Japan. Although I’ve been there many times it just reveals more of its many layers in small increments, bit by bit. It is so different and yet so familiar too. I spent a week at the Saori head office at Saori no Mori and still learnt more about their approach to weaving cloth. It is…
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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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Sakiori Summer Weaving
I think my summer weaving is going to be centred around striping up fabric to weave. I really can’t feel right about throwing out old worn sheets and they either become painting drop sheets or yarn for weaving. With this lot I cram dyed them so I got blended colours that didn’t have that flat…
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A hot Spring workshop
With temperatures of 30 degrees this weekend the early Spring Saori September workshop was hot. And so were the weavers with their work! A delightful, sunny weekend with a group of creative weavers sadly had to come to end. Two days doesn’t seem enough somehow. We only just got started. When it’s all new it…
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Asemic weaving in the Saori way
Get your translation skills ready by weaving asemic writing. Asemic writing doesn’t have any meaning except for that which invites the ‘reader’ to interpret their own. It’s an excuse to be creative with line and Saori weaving is the perfect free style to work with. I’ve always been interested in texts – writing, calligraphy, typography.…