Blog Hop Around the World
A few weeks ago, I was invited to participate in the Blog Hop Around the World. I said yes, but at the time I was deep into research on Bronze Age textiles, and… Continue reading
Tag Archive: weaving
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A Little Commemoration Here, Please
I went to get stamps today, and chose the Building a Nation series, which features black-and-white photos of workers from the early 1900s. When I got a good look at them, I was… Continue reading
Vacation by Video
Someday I hope to go on lots of textile tours of exotic countries, but for now I am just exploring the documentaries available from Amazon. Most evenings, I watch a few minutes of… Continue reading
Summer Samples
Last spring I gave a few weaving lessons to a wonderful person who knew the basics but needed a little refresher. We were going over the whole process of dressing the loom for… Continue reading
It’s Not Too Late to Make Plans for Pillow Fight Day
I was sad to discover that I have already missed Worldwide Quilting Day and Holi, the Color Festival, this year. I looked on the web for a master list of textile-related celebrations so… Continue reading
Helen of Troy and the Trojan Cloak
In my last post, I talked about the beautiful Helen of Troy and her incredible weaving skills. Homer may have just intended to show her as a proper woman, industriously weaving, but his… Continue reading
Helen of Troy: World-Renowned Weaver – and, I hear, kinda pretty!
Along with a group of followers of the Dancing Professor, I’m reading the Iliad. (Is there a collective noun for a group of blog followers? A gaggle of followers? A chatter? A press?)… Continue reading
Halloween Textravaganza
I’m not a huge Halloween aficionado, but I do have a few items that might help you in planning a Halloween party. It’s still early in the month – sure, you have time… Continue reading
Colorious II
Every weaver worth their thread does sample pieces called gamps, to try different threadings, or yarns, or colors – or all of the above- in one reference piece. These color gamps are… Continue reading
Colorious Weaving
These are some of my weaving samples from over the last 30 years. I have always been more of a Textile Experimenter (Experimentalist? Experimentician?) than a Textile Expert. Magazine articles and workshops constantly introduced… Continue reading