This week’s weave of the week is one of my own designs, from when I was a fabric designer in the New York garment industry.
It sounds kind of like a reality show challenge: Take a 2″ x 2-1/2″ fragment of an unidentified woolen handknit (inset above) and design a woven cotton fabric that looks like [...]
Archive for November, 2008
2008 Weave of the week #18: An interpretation
November 30, 2008
2008 Weave of the week #17: Darling
November 23, 2008
This food-stained child’s bib struck me as a good choice for a Thanksgiving-week weave, because of the way it seems to combine food, family, love, and handweaving into one small piece of cloth.
I bought the bib partly because it is an interesting textile, but it meant more to me that it had been painstakingly made [...]
Firefly!
November 19, 2008
I have a nice range of colors in Silk City’s Firefly yarn (nine colors), but only one cone left of most colors. Firefly is a finer-gauge (3250 ypp) “eyelash” yarn, and because the fiber content is mostly viscose, I have used it as a decorative warp yarn with rayon chenille, where it works beautifully, for [...]
“Shameless commerce” department
November 18, 2008
Speaking of autumn (were we speaking of autumn?) — if you’re interested, some of the (warm, cuddly, elegant!) rayon chenille scarves from my fall collection are now available at Saks in NYC, in the men’s scarf department on the sixth floor. Pictured above is one of the five colors this Chevron Stripe pattern comes in, [...]
Gail Martin talks about Ikat
November 17, 2008
Sorry that this is so last minute but Gail Martin, owner of the Gail Martin Gallery in NYC, will speak Wednesday night, November 19th, at 7 PM, at a meeting of the Textile Study Group of New York.
The topic of her talk is, “Artist: Unknown — Looking at 19th Century Central Asian Ikat.” The Gail [...]
2008 Weave of the week #16: Hmong hemp
November 16, 2008
Pictured above is a bag made by the Hmong people of northern Thailand, who have been weaving with hemp since about 2000 BC. As is the case with so many of the pieces in my collection (I’m obviously never going to be a museum curator), I have no idea where I got the bag. The [...]
