Category: World Textiles
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The Stories Textiles Tell
This blog posting is one that I’ve been procrastinating about since I returned from Bhutan. Mainly because I didn’t know how to say what I wanted to.The loss of so many lives in the bushfires in Victoria this week gives me impetus to write. We are all vulnerable to so many things in this life…
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Bhutanese Textiles ~ Up Close and Personal
Getting up close with the textiles from Bhutan is extraordinary. I can hardly see the weave with a gigantic magnifier so I’m sure I wouldn’t be able to actually weave it! The weavers are often in dimly lit rooms too. This type of weave is used in making the Kira – the womens’ national dress. The…
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Tshering and the Birds Eye Weave
I know you won’t find my travel pictures boring because they are all about weave. Perhaps the little things I’ve noticed on my trip can be noticed here in Australia too, if I only look about for it. But when you go to a country where textiles count it just seems to mean so much.…
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Even Curiouser – The Bhutanese Tingma
A Tingma is a Bhutanese weft pattern design which uses discontinuous supplementary wefts in addition to a ground weft. This photo illustrates a lovely example this type of weave. Usually woven for the women’s dress (Kira), this is a smaller table runner size. A silk on silk textile, it looks alot like embroidery and the…
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Tshewang of Khoma – The Curious Adventure Continued
It’s always a plus to meet a weaver who has woven a textile that I can now have on my table at home so I can feel a link to her.Meet Tshewang from the village of Khoma in Bhutan. This village was quite remote, at least in Australian terms which is really saying something. A…
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The Curious Adventure of the CuriousWeaver
Bhutan The Land of the Thunder Dragon Bhutan is an extraordinary place. I’ve just returned from a trip with Active Travel and have a head filled with weaving adventures and sights that I never thought I’d see. Handweaving is the main ‘art’ form in Bhutan, it is where you see the most innovation and experimentation…
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Tais from the Newest Nation on Earth
MidCoast Water have been honoured with a wonderful gift for their support of the Water Aid program to the worlds’s newest country – East Timor. East Timor is smaller than Tasmania and has a rich diversity of people established by thousands of years of different people travelling through. East Timor comprises aspects of both the…