Ever since I wrote about — and showed a picture of — Jeff Koons’s balloon dog sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art last summer, I have been surprised by the steady number of hits that this blog gets from people looking for “balloon sculpture,” “balloon exhibit,” and similar keywords.
So just for fun, here is [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Balloon fashion
February 26, 2009
2009 Weave of the week #8: Classic worsted plaid
February 22, 2009
This week’s weave was brought back from Paris sometime in the 1970s by a fabric designer I worked for. She bought the one-meter minimum sample, cut her swatch off the end, and gave the rest to me.
It is a classic plaid design similar to many that are manufactured today, but high-quality worsted cloth like this [...]
Twain Revell: Enterprising free spirit
February 13, 2009
A talk about “Spinning Exotic Fibers” would not normally entice me to a Weavers’ Guild meeting on a freezing Saturday morning, but the possibility of seeing the speaker’s giant angora rabbit was irresistible.
Twain Revell was the guest speaker. “Spinner” doesn’t begin to define her skills, but she is unquestionably an expert spinner who has spun [...]
2009 Weave of the week #6: Street tweed”
February 8, 2009
Last week’s weave had a pedigree, but this week’s weave came from a Mexican street vendor’s table in Greenwich Village, NYC — we got here a mutt.
The lively colors and the unusual tweed pattern were what drew me to the vendor’s table, but after looking at the cloth more closely for this article, I found [...]
2009 Weave of the week #5: Yoshitaka Yanagi
February 1, 2009
Not only is this 36″-square piece of handwoven Japanese cotton fabric an interesting textile, but it has a pedigree. It was handwoven by Yoshitaka Yanagi (1911-2003), a well-known Japanese weaver and textile educator.
Mr. Yanagi was the nephew of Soetsu Yanagi, who started the Mingei (Folkcraft) movement in the 1920s, founded the Japanese Folkcraft Museum in [...]
