Quintessential Texas Vacation
Porch time… Swimming holes… Or rivers, in town… And out of town… Dance halls… And don’t forget to hit all the thrift stores and fruit stands for souvenirs! My husband had the… Continue reading
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The Cloth Antiquary
What do you do when there’s no Wikipedia page? In my last three posts, I have given you some small samples from the 1936 book, The Romance of French Weaving. There are so… Continue reading
A Treasury of Textiles
Today is Bastille Day, and while the crowds outside are celebrating with music and fireworks, let’s slip down a cool dim hallway to lose ourselves in a treasury of French craftsmanship. From 1732… Continue reading
Rules, Routines, and the Restraint of Initiative
Today I am going to let M. Paul Rodier show us The Romance of French Weaving with a little tour of Paris on the thirteenth century. The king, Louis IX, later known as… Continue reading
The Mystery of Charlemagne’s Missing Textiles
Here’s a little puzzle to start things off: La chaine est soie, la trame poil de chèvre, matiere qui fournit la chèvre du Thibet et que nous connaissons sous le nom de cachemire.… Continue reading
Mustang Grape Jelly 2015
Or How to Go from This … to That… With Some Sort of Efficiency. Three years ago we had a good year for wild grapes, and I made mustang grape jelly for the… Continue reading
Pixilated Panels
The first time I heard the word pixilated was long before digital imaging. In the early 1980s, we often spent weekends with some friends on an Arkansas farm. A few times we played… Continue reading
15 in ’15 Second Quarter Check-in
Here we are half way through the year! Time to report progress on the goals I set at the beginning of the year. √ 15 fused quilt blocks I thought I would be… Continue reading
Piecing Together Inspiration
It all started when I saw a post on 16-patch blocks. Sarah of Confessions of a Fabric Addict had a lovely, thorough tutorial on many ways to piece 16-patches, but the part that… Continue reading
Biodiversity…I Spy…Natural Dyes
Today we present! (Dun-dun-dah) Textile Ranger – Plant Detective!!!! (It would be very helpful if you could read this in the voice of Sgt. Joe Friday from the series Dragnet.) Here in the… Continue reading