Category: Saori
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Studio energy
Recently a family of yarn lovers filled my studio and you can see the colours they added to it. Immi was happy on the little Piccolo loom. I’m enjoying my Piccolo a lot more than I thought I would. It is the ultimate portable floor loom, weighing just 7kg I can set up anywhere and…
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Katie’s gradient cloth
A couple of months ago 12 year old Katie visited my studio with her Aunt and Grandmother. Seeing a family in action weaving and yabbering together filled my studio with light and energy. This is Katie with her first weaving woven (left) in a single session on the Piccolo. She seemed to enjoy it and…
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Intensive weave? I don’t think so
As a small overview of Curiousweaver studio joy for 2012, the next few posts will show you more about what Saori weavers did during the year. 2012 has been the first year of my operational studio dream with the assistance of Saori floor looms which have enabled me to share my love of weaving with…
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Couture Ablaze
This is the final destination of the journey for Summer Ablaze with Reds fabric and it’s overdye process. A garment inspired by the new Saori clothing book, Fuku no Katachi ni Suri, p. 68. – available here. I say inspired because there is a little work with modeling on the figure which helps develop a…
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Simply So SAORI
With the arrival of the new Japanese Saori clothing book – Fuku no Katachi ni Suru – I quickly turned my first Saori influenced cloth, which had been hanging around waiting for its big moment, into a lovely wearable. I’ve hung this cloth up at workshops, not expecting anyone to see the twill pattern lines…
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October Workshop Two
Workshop Two has now concluded and I’m once again totally in awe with the weaves and approach of all the participants. I’m pretty sure they invented new ways of weaving too! This is a short video I made up of the two days. In this you will see Warren weaving with one arm due to…
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First timer
Here’s Katie’s scarf! You just can’t guess, except by the smile, that she is a very first time weaver. Katie, my daughter’s friend, spent the whole weekend weaving with her favourite colours. It was quite a stunning piece of work. But then I’m getting used to seeing amazing first time work on my little studio…
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Summer Ablaze with REds
My next warp is all reds. Silk yarn, silk ribbon and eyelash cotton warp, handpainted in three different tones of red and orange. It is an all ablaze start to my summer weaves. For the weft I’m tinkering with silk straw from Alchemy and kasuri dyed black/grey tussah silk from Avril. I’m just getting on and weaving…
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Saturday Weavers
The Saturday weavers carved new ideas onto the Saori looms in the studio. A seascape scarf was developing on one loom, and a grounded landscape on the other. Katie just powered along on the new piccolo creating a mix of brights and brilliants, which she adeptly…