Category: Technique
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Waves again, can’t get enough
Weaving waves must surely have some sort of human connection as it is just so enjoyable. That’s why we are at it again!
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Weavers are like Art
Seeing weavers in the studio working on the looms reveals more than a yarn and colour or two.
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Add wonder with two shuttle weaving
Two shuttles for weaving add yet another dimension of possibilities to your weaving.
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Puckered Edges
Using multiple fibres in our Saori work is a delightfully, risky activity.
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Heathering the Squid
I’m back to the squid design again on a cloth that I really wasn’t comfortable weaving at first until I heathered the yarns. The warp was a clumsy mix of blues and striping effects in tans. A good combination I thought when I went with it but it just didn’t feel right once the shuttle…
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Pulling Warps
The magic of weaving cloth doesn’t have to stop when the warp runs out. This technique is a simple and fun one that allows you to change the original sett of the weaving to make it a lighter and more drapeable cloth and also to make the edges speak more or soften them.
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Asemic weaving in the Saori way
Get your translation skills ready by weaving asemic writing. Asemic writing doesn’t have any meaning except for that which invites the ‘reader’ to interpret their own. It’s an excuse to be creative with line and Saori weaving is the perfect free style to work with. I’ve always been interested in texts – writing, calligraphy, typography.…
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Shuttle shelves and intensive weavers
I’ve just hosted a delightful intensive Saori class with two weavers from Queensland. It was a long planned weavers road trip to my Old Bar studio. Three full days of discovery and tactile delights. Their ideas and approaches to cloth already primed in thinking the Saori way. Both weavers came with some weaving experience but not with…
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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…