Category: book review
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Book Review: Hidden Tapestry
“All but a few artists struggle to pay their bills. This is the compact the artist makes with the universe: to create with no guarantee of remuneration, and yet to live always in expectation and hope. It requires nerve, faith, perseverance and above all the ability to survive disappointment.” Debra Dean, Hidden Tapestry; Jan Yoors…
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Information Gathering
As I contemplate and work towards publishing a book I am reminded of two books for weavers that came out in 2017. Bobbie worked for a number of years to get her book published and it became available last summer. Tom Beaudet’s book is a culmination of a lifetime of working with textiles, both as…
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Information Gathering
As I contemplate and work towards publishing a book I am reminded of two books for weavers that came out in 2017. Bobbie worked for a number of years to get her book published and it became available last summer. Tom Beaudet’s book is a culmination of a lifetime of working with textiles, both as…
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Book-ish
I have shown this diagram before but, well, here it is again – as an illustration of how the brain needs to toggle between many factors in order to create whole cloth from individual threads. Recently I learned of a new book by David Eagleman and Anthony Brandt on creativity called The Runaway Species. I’ve…
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Books!
I really love delving into books, especially ones as eye appealing as this one. It only arrived a couple of days ago and therefore I’ve not read it thoroughly but so far I’m liking what I see. What I have read is clearly stated with good illustrations. While the book is geared…
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Messing About
Messed about a bit more with the camera today. I think the top picture, which shows a bit more of the cloth in the background, is better than the bottom one, which is too out of focus. Neither one really captures the cloth as cloth, though. Going to have to play around with this more.…
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Food For Thought
Simon Winchester seems to have a talent for finding interesting ‘characters’ and telling their stories in an informative and engaging way. I’ve read several of his books and will look for more of his titles. I’m fortunate in that my local library has quite a few of his books. In this one we meet Joseph…
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Fibre Geekery
This book popped up during a chat on Weavolution and I decided to take a look at it. To buy it is prohibitive but I was able to get it on inter-library loan for a mere $8. Well worth it to satisfy my curiousity. As the title says, the primary focus is to identify fibres…
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Round Tuits
three yarns I have used to make ‘collapse’ fabrics table runner showing hem in plain weave, body in broken twill Slowly, slowly energy is returning and I am beginning to deal with things that have needed to be done for some time but for which I never seemed to have a round tuit. A number of…
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Book Review: Yarn
Ever hear of the genre called ‘fashionpunk’? Me neither. I stumbled upon this book in the public library. Naturally I just had to pick it up! When I consider a new-to-me author I’ll read the first page and if it grabs me, I’ll grab the book and hie myself to the check out desk. The…