Category: Saori
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Scone Saori
My most recent Saori gig was at Scone in the Upper Hunter valley. The scenery and trip to Scone from Old Bar was simply amazing. What a wonderful environment we live in. The Australian landscape has something that seeps into and under your skin. Very different to European scenes but one that totally takes over…
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The Old Clasped Weft Trick
I just can’t get enough of the clasped weft technique! And neither can others. I’ve never heard anyone say “please don’t show me that one as it bores me senseless”. Easy and rhythmical, it can be done with just two yarns or many more, can introduce an auto pick on pick shading or solid blocks…
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Speedy Saori? What’s happening?
What’s happening? Is it climate change, something in the water, or just plain May motivation? I don’t know but the weavers through my workshops lately have been really going for it. At first I put it down to a group which all knew each other and being so comfortable were able to weave much more…
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Ombre gradations in weaving
I just love the colour gradations in this weave. This is the first fully completed handwoven cloth by my daughter Michelle. She is 30 years old soon and sometimes textile love can take that long to come around. So don’t worry if your little ones have no interest whatsoever in your loom or that yarn…
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Green Mad
Green seems to be my thing at the moment. Colours come and go on the studio looms and a handpainted green warp is currently weaving along on one of them. I’m extending the clasped weft idea to build areas which are shaded differently. I started doing an extended pattern in the clasped weft but after…
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Melbourne adventures
Melbourne is a long way from Old Bar. Well it doesn’t seem far when you get on a plane but it is! Planes make you have a false sense of geography and appreciation of what country is. A full 24 hours in the round trip through our great country was a lovely adventure. This image…
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Benevolent weaving
Another fantastic workshop with a corporate group, now named the Benevolent (Society) Weavers. Every member of the group was brand new to weaving and you can see their diversity of styles and approaches straight up. The other amazing thing was the amount of yardage they wove in only a few hours. Not that it’s a…
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Design your Clothes with a Pattern Start?
I’m finding that some weavers are struggling with clothing design for their new cloth. The Saori pattern books are great with the Saori Beginner Clothing Design book best for beginner sewers and the others for those who know their way around stitching more. However the cloth is sometimes best when it is draped directly on…
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Beach designs
Beaches are amazing. Although I’ve lived within a few hundred metres of Old Bar beach for nearly 30 years, I feel like I’ve only just discovered it. I know…very slow indeed. The seduction of a beach with its continual changing colours and textures is humbling. The Pacific ocean is such an enormous unknown landscape. Looking…