this one is about history II

from the natural and white linen honeycomb i moved on to colors. the triptych was microwaved dyed  silk in warm  and cool  colors. i also knew very little about dyeing and  was trying microwave dyeing for the first time. yes, it the same one i cooked food!!

after the triptych i moved on to warp painting with textile paints.i wanted to incorporate images and sparse woven motifs thinking that one did not really have to weave motifs selvedge to selvedge. little did i know then that it was called brocade.

both pursuits opened possibilities and have accompanied my weaving ever since  one way or another. note the bleeding honeycombs at the bottom. rinsing thoroughly was not a concern then. experience  is a good teacher.

looking back  this project was great schooling. it set the foundation for the rest of my weaving the way i approached weaving, color and design. i knew i didn't want to go the texture route because it was too obvious and too easy. remember this was the  early 80's with the lumpy clumpy aesthetics  carryover from the 70's.

the draft. you can download it as wif  here

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commemorative stroll

 seen, bought and experienced.

  
blue skies                                            shopping

  wine display

  
ham                                             vermut and dried sausage

  tomatoes for rubbing on bread
     

  
calafornia?                                  nope, the med.

  
black rice at the beach                        style


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this one is about history

found this in the proverbial bottom drawer.one of my first projects using an 8 shaft loom, oh luxury!there i discovered i did not want to spend the rest of my life under a loom tieying treadles and having  read about dobby looms around that  time i knew that was  the way to go.

this was so early in my weaving life that i didn't know about linen and its special conditions so i wove away. ignorance was not bliss. that and a woman who freaked out and started acting weird because she was a self appointed weaving goddess and didn't understand what i was doing. she reacted by wanting to evict me first from the loom ,as she claimed she needed it, then from the classroom because she felt threatened. another lesson learned. life is too short to deal with other people's insecurities. so i settled into weaving by myself. and so i went on until the internet.

back to me,me : this was a long linen warp so i could weave lots of different options with it. and there i started painting warps too. these two in the photos  were at the beginning of the warp, testing the pattern, a honeycomb from my first weaving book ,the  else regensteiner    book . i still was following recipes, but learned that i wanted to design my own stuff. i had all these visions!

over the weekend i thought i could sew both together and make a linen table runner.after all these years stashed away! i also found some of the other projects from that warp. this is going to be a week full of weaving posts!

i'm taking commemorative stroll today   ;-)

 


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