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About a year ago a woman purchased one of my handwoven shawls. It was a hand painted relatively heavy rayon in a colorway called Silver Bells. In May she brought it to one of my shows asking if I could fix a hole that happened in the shawl. She had no idea what caused the […] Despite my best intentions, I didn’t make myself actually tag scarves as I finished them. I found the little mind game I played on myself interesting. Since a scarf can’t be tagged before it’s received a final pressing, I stacked them up to press instead of doing the pressing as I went along. Did some […] Unlike some of the weavers I know, I’m happy to take orders for custom weaving. Usually the order is for something I’ve made before or something close to it. For instance, I’ve had special orders for a solid black rayon chenille scarf of a particular size, a solid white one without fringe, a cotton […] Meg Nakagawa, a weaver in Nelson, New Zealand, blogs at Unravelling. Her life is quite different from mine, so I enjoy reading about her weaving, her family, and her community. Meg has organized a variety of weaving challenges/exchanges over the years. Although the timing has never been right for me to participate, I know that […] Since I had the Macomber treadles tied up for braided twill and my feet knew the treadling pattern after the baby blanket, I decided to prepare a warp for some braided twill scarves. I chose an 8/2 black rayon for the warp, intending on weaving three different colors of weft. First was a red […] |
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