Category: tea towels
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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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Kintsugi
There is a philosophy of embracing imperfections/flaws in Japan called Kintsugi. Broken pottery is mended with gold as the mortar. It is a reminder of the fragility of both life and ‘things’ and that just because something broke doesn’t mean it can’t be mended and made whole again. Perhaps even beautiful. Leonard Cohen voiced…
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Proof of Concept
Even though I have been weaving for 40+ years, I still ‘sample’. The way in which I sample will vary because I now have a rather large foundation of knowledge I can reference. The current warp (long delayed by Other Things) is now finally weaving. To recap – when I ‘retired’ I thought I…
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Unventing*
This is the beginning of me exploring a concept that I have been toying with lately. It’s not ‘new’ – I doubt much is actually new, as in no one has ever come up with this before, when it comes to textiles. I have, in fact, played with the concept previously but set aside…
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It’s the Perspective
I meant to crop the yellow out of this photo and forgot And this was what I was ‘hiding’ when I so artfully posed the towel Because I wove that entire warp with yet another threading error in it. I swear that at times they crouch to hide. Now that threading error isn’t going…
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It’s a Process
close up view more distant view Orange is certainly not everyone’s cup of tea. Nor it is mine, much. So while I know these towels won’t be attractive to some people, others may find them so. When I started weaving, the colours seemed very chaotic, and off putting. The design wasn’t large enough to…
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Working in Series
Second draft after messing around with progressions – flames Third draft, after deciding the mercerized cotton needed more interlacements Fourth draft Sometimes people ask where I get my ideas from. Well, that depends (you’re surprised, aren’t you?) Right now I’m focused on using up what stash I have, so I’m looking at the yarns…
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World on Fire
In so many ways it feels like the world is on ‘fire’. So as I dug through the piles of 2/20 mercerized cotton, separating them into colour groupings, I kept the 3 reds as one warp possibility. A few days later, looking for something else entirely, I spotted a large (kilo?) cone of a…
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Iterations
Today we are having our 4th covid vaccination and there wasn’t time to go weave a towel before we have to leave, but too much time to ‘waste’. So I messed around with the current draft. There were elements in it I really liked and I wanted to see if I could break one…