Since Monday starts the Chinese Year of the Ox, I thought that I’d feature a group of my scarf designs that use musk ox yarn –”qiviut”.
“Qiviut” is the Inuit word for the downy, insulating undercoat of the North American musk ox — a cloven-hoofed ruminant that’s actually more closely related to goats and sheep than [...]
Archive for January, 2009
2009 Weave of the week #4: Qiviut
January 26, 2009
2009 Weave of the week #3: “Shooting Star”
January 18, 2009
This week of Barack Obama’s historic presidential inauguration seems like a great time to feature American design, so here is “Shooting Star,” a drapery fabric from the archives of Pollack and Associates.
“Shooting Star” was designed by Mark Pollack, the design director of Pollack and Associates, a NYC-based company that creates sophisticated fabrics for the high-end [...]
2009 Weave of the week #2: Museum mat
January 11, 2009
I call this small (10″x10″), cheery textile just “museum mat” because I don’t have anything more specific to call it. I was surprised when I saw it, very out of context, in the Cooper-Hewitt Museum’s first show in the Carnegie Mansion in 1976. I recently asked the museum’s experts for help identifying it, but they [...]
Silk fusion (felt) workshop
January 10, 2009
Fusing unspun silk fibers into “felt” sounds like a cool idea to me. If you’d like to learn how to do it, The New York Guild of Handweavers is presenting a workshop on the subject, with Karen Selk, managing director of Treenway Silks. The 1-1/2 day workshop is scheduled for March 28 and 29 at [...]
2009 Weave of the week #1: “When Opposites Attract”
January 4, 2009
“When Opposites Attract,” the first featured weave of 2009, is a brain-twister that was designed and woven by my long-time friend Ann Rosenthal.
It is really three weaves combined: the ground is an 8-harness shadow weave, and Ann used its light/dark warp to create the cats in the diamond by means of doublewoven tapestry. The diamond [...]
January 3, 2009
How to navigate this blog
It’s gotten easier to find what you’re looking for on this eclectic blog.
Step 1 – scroll down to the bottom of any page and find the “Categories” heading.
Step 2- pick the category that interests you from the dropdown menu — Designer Yarn, Weave of the Week, etc. — and click on [...]
