Alpaca collection September 27, 2008

This group of twelve neutral alpaca colors — black, white, and ten shades of grey and brown (six are heathered) — are from my alpaca collection. All of the yarns are 100% alpaca, three-ply, 1700 ypp, so they are compatible with each other and with all of the yarns in the twist and rainbow alpaca [...]

2008 Weave of the week #9: Kente cloth September 26, 2008

This week’s featured weave is a piece of Kente cloth from Ghana. I chose it from my collection (detail below) because it relates to two separate exhibitions of African textiles opening in NYC this month.
“The Poetics of Cloth,” at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery, http://www.nyu.edu/greyart, opened recently and will be on view until Jan. 26, 2009. [...]

2008 Weave of the week #8: Mystery vest September 21, 2008

Can anyone identify the modest, anonymous weaver of this mystery vest?

I bought it from a now-defunct store (called Macondo) in Soho sometime during the 1970s, and all the receipt says is “vest handwoven cotton, $170.00.” It was woven and finished with great care and skill and is complexly engineered (there are closeup, detail photos on [...]

2008 Weave of the week #7: Bling scarf September 15, 2008

This is an original color-effect design from my current scarf collection, woven in chenille and metallic, as shown here (although the glitter doesn’t show up very well in the photo), and in an all-chenille version that is called Allsorts. You can see images of both on my Gallery page, woven to perfection by Brenda J. [...]

2008 Weave of the week #6: Swedish (?) mat September 7, 2008

In the second chapter of the “how I became a weaver” saga (see the About page if you’re interested), I described my disappointment with  the twill sampler that I did in my first weaving class, so this simple and ingenious mat was a natural weave-of-the-week choice.
I picked it out from a pile of linens in [...]

Alpaca rainbow September 7, 2008

Here is some more of the 100% alpaca yarn that I have for sale.  This particular lot of alpaca has been dyed into ten vibrant colors. In addition to the colors in the photo (sweet potato, olive, and lavender), there are red, gold, blue, purple, burgundy, dark green, and navy. This soft, luxurious yarn, like [...]