Category: Saori
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Four Shaft Saori Adventures
A few Saori weavers in Australia choose to have the option of the 4 shaft spring system conversion kit. This can be a great choice for many reasons. For established weavers it allows all the patterning options of the classical weaving they love combined with the efficiency, portability, comfort and compact styling of the Saori…
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Weaving with passion and verve
The last workshop in the Curiousweaver studio for 2014 came to an end sadly on Sunday. Like a family filling a house making it a home, the studio feels so much better when filled with enthusiastic Saori weaving adventurers. Trying a bit of this and a bit of that, each working to their own rhythm…
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Removing and replacing a SAORI Inside Set
Removing, replacing and generally just having the availability of a Saori inside set is wonderful. But the words “inside set” aren’t really descriptive of the function or process of the whole thing. When I first came across this, it was a very new concept to me, at least for a small craft weaver. I know…
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Morisset Weavers
The best way for me to describe the wonderful two day workshop with the Morisset weavers is with images of their work. Absolutely beautiful creations and all so very different from each other. The group was voraciously interested in weaving and creating which is great to work with. Thank you so much to Lorraine, Ann,…
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Easy Sundays
Spending Sunday nursing a cold and threading a loom seems a pretty good balance. It’s certainly a distraction and I did it without any hiccups…or sneezes. The warp is a Tussah silk tweed with lovely shades of warm tones including yellow. I’ve got some handyed Ramie from Japan that will go across it as weft but…
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Journey Weaves
Taking a weaving technique on a journey produces such a spirited and freeform opportunity in a woven cloth. I’m calling it a journey weave because some of the techniques I learnt directly from Kenzo Jo in Japan lack established nomenclature (I think so?- Irene Emery’s classic Primary Structures of Fabrics is on my dusty wishlist.) This cloth is just…
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No Anonymous Characters
Ok! Another wonderful weekend Saori workshop with a great group, weaver houseguests, sunny warm days, warp rescues, beach magic and cake! What more could anyone ask for in life. The images here were connected by Amanda and her image of tidal sand striations at Manning Point. The weave is the final demo of the weekend…
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Saori Winter @ Sturt
What a special experience it was teaching at Sturt Contemporary Craft and Design School – Winter program. A five day program with eight weavers exposed to Saori style weaving and a variety of different looms. Once again considering that the warps were all the same, each cloth was utterly different reflecting its creator and often what they…
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Why weave Saori: revisited
Why be inspired and motivated by the Saori aesthetic? I have just written a post for Craftsy on Have you heard about Saori Weaving. It made me think again about why the Saori concept is so appealing to me. Ten years ago I wrote about Saori weaving for the Complex Weavers in the US. Reading this…