Category: Stories from the Matrix
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Stories from the Matrix
Yesterday, someone left a comment that started me thinking. “It is not the tools the weaver uses, but how the weaver applies their knowledge and manages their tools.” This principle needs to be stressed more. I see too many posts from new (and not-so-new) weavers that imply a belief that if one buys the…
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Stories from the Matrix
Yesterday, someone left a comment that started me thinking. “It is not the tools the weaver uses, but how the weaver applies their knowledge and manages their tools.” This principle needs to be stressed more. I see too many posts from new (and not-so-new) weavers that imply a belief that if one buys the…
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Stories from the Matrix
Yesterday, someone left a comment that started me thinking. “It is not the tools the weaver uses, but how the weaver applies their knowledge and manages their tools.” This principle needs to be stressed more. I see too many posts from new (and not-so-new) weavers that imply a belief that if one buys the…
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Hunkering Down
This photo is from a few years ago, but shows some of the accumulation that we can expect as ‘normal’. The weather forecast for the next few days is…snow. I’m not particularly bothered by it because I don’t really need to leave the house for the next few days. After a flurry of activity…
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Book Review: Stories from the Matrix
Book Review from Margaret Tayti: (DISCLAIMER: Laura is a friend of mine, and I received a review copy of Stories from the Matrix – but I would have purchased a copy regardless!)If you’re fortunate, you may have a few ‘Crossroads and Connections’ friends. The friends who serve as mentor and sounding board, and fit…
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I Think Therefore…
Weaving is full of complexity. I think about that. A lot. Perhaps that is why weaving or other textile arts are so frequently found as metaphors in ‘fairy tales’. All the way back to ancient Greece where our ‘hero’ was given a ball of string to help find his way through the maze –…
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Stories from the Matrix – Book Review by V
“My textile book collection consists almost entirely of technical ‘how-to’ sort of volumes: pattern books, books with weaving drafts or knitting charts in, and the odd bit of textile history. Many of these are aspirational books; things that I really want to somehow find the time to explore, to learn. Stories from the Matrix…
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Because I Can
‘four leaf clover’ This isn’t really a four leaf clover, of course I know that. But I need to name my weaving files with something that I will remember later, just in case I want to do the draft again – or modify it, use it as a stepping stone to another design. I’m…
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Because I Can
‘four leaf clover’ This isn’t really a four leaf clover, of course I know that. But I need to name my weaving files with something that I will remember later, just in case I want to do the draft again – or modify it, use it as a stepping stone to another design. I’m…
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Because I Can
‘four leaf clover’ This isn’t really a four leaf clover, of course I know that. But I need to name my weaving files with something that I will remember later, just in case I want to do the draft again – or modify it, use it as a stepping stone to another design. I’m…