Category: Saori
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Be Bold, embrace the hi-vis and ugly colours
I learnt a great lesson in this past workshop. Thank you to Renita for her bold approach to colour and for letting me in on what she was weaving! This was Renita’s colour palette for her weaving. What would you add to lift it again?? We could use a white or yellow which would sit…
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Winter Workshops in June
Another very full and weaverly weekend workshop has come and gone in the studio. I’m not sure where to begin but provide the evidence here in photos which never really do the weekend full justice. It was an interstate affair with Victorians, a Queenslander, a semi local and a local. Weavers are prepared to travel…
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Saori in Japan
My trips to Japan always include time at Saori no Mori in Osaka. It’s a time to catch up with what is going on in the Saori world, learn more ways of working on the threads and just delve into my own weaving time. I always meet new people and learn my way around the…
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Adventure June
June and July seem to be busy workshop months. It is quiet in Old Bar and the sun is so warming and nice. My first weekend workshop here in June has concluded and I’m looking forward to the next one on the weekend. Four weavers in the studio this weekend. All such totally different textiles.…
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The Wonder of the Sponge Cake and Weaving
How I wish I made a Sponge Cake this weekend! If only I could. As we talked about the wonder of tablet weaving and how on earth some human thought of it, Vicki also spoke about the wonders of the Sponge Cake – who would have thought to create that. All that whipped eggy wonderment.…
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Open Studio Explorations on Track
I had a busy open studio for April which filled with delightful people. Here below Dominique looks a bit serious because she is contending with the Rail Reed…a very interesting tool on our looms. It seems a ‘wacky’ tool but very easy to use. Dominique is an avid local Saori weaver and spent the morning…
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Weaver in Residence – Day Four
By Fiona Durman of Ashculme Textiles, Wagga Wagga Last night, I took the shibori home to our lovely B&B and tied all the shibori threads ready for dyeing in the morning. As I tied them I realised how I could improve on my threading, to make it both easier to tie and easier to make those…
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Weaver in Residence – Day Three
By Fiona Durman of Ashculme Textiles, Wagga Wagga With two days of weaving and learning behind me it felt wonderful to walk into the studio and have no less than 3 looms up and running with different projects. I also still had the dyed warp ready for rinsing. But before any of that could begin we…
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Weaver in Residence – Day Two
By Fiona Durman of Ashculme Textiles, Wagga Wagga After a lovely morning walk on the beach I was keen to get back to the studio. With two looms already in action and plans for warp painting and more today I was itching to get started. While I wove the shibori weave yesterday a design was forming…