Category: Saori
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It’s official. We’re getting wider…the arrival of the WX90
The WX90 has just been released for customers interested in w i d e. I’m not a wide cloth girl and always looking to narrow cloth for dynamic design when I join it and for the limits on my body when I’m weaving it. After many years of weaving wide I found that 40-60cms was…
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Should you weave everyday?
The internet and social media is full of advice and opinion on what to do, what not to do and if you are doing it – you’re probably not doing it right. The news is overwhelmingly full of opinion and solutions based on narrow personal observations. So how could I possibly qualify to answer “should…
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Little people time
It’s little people time again. Little people aren’t worried about how they are weaving or even what they are doing at first. Just using a beater to create a cardboard stiff structure of cloth is fun. Here my one year old granddaughter can’t reach the weaving pedals on the smallest setting of the Saori Piccolo…
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The tale of a warp
Learning to create your own warps has always been an integral part of the weaving process. And although the Saori looms have the unique pre-wound warps, there may come a day when you just need your own mix of colours, styles of yarn or different texture. Some people find the whole process meditative and Saori…
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Look, feel, hold and wrap
This weekend was full of the clacking of shuttles once again. Here Lydia is a 2nd time weaver to the studio. Following on from the theme of wider cloths on the loom, she took the opportunity to weave a full wrap. In two very full days of weaving she wove over two metres of fine…
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A workshop with firsts
Sadly another workshop is over. The energy of the studio is now up to me! Such enjoyable company and such difference in the weavers and their styles on the loom. It was also a workshop of firsts. Emily has been building up her skills and confidence in Saori weaving and after orienting herself to colours…
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When you have to have predictability
There are times when incidental asymmetry in my weaving starts to erode into my imagined feelings of control over things we do and experience in life. So I’ve recently set up my loom to do some ordered and predicable work, knowing that the more free style ideas will then push themselves to the fore. The Saori…
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#Whyiloveweaving
You’ll notice the hashtag # in the header. It means ‘alert’ to humans and ‘sort’ and ‘curate’ to the bots, all in one little hash. Even though the trend in writing everywhere is to to shorten everything, leading to confusion at times, IMHO. We’ve now come to saying the word ‘hashtag’ before announcing something either…
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Bias. What’s not to like?
Indeed. The Bias to Wear workshop is now over but I leave you with a few photos of the great afternoon. This bias technique for clothing was one I learnt recently at Saori in Japan. Its beauty isn’t the fact that you can make bias clothing, of course you can in many ways. For me it’s the calculation…