Howdy everybody! I’m going to be in Santa Monica teaching at the Fabulous Fiber Fest – http://www.thefiberfest.com/ this August 17-19. It’s not up on the webpage yet, but I’m going to do a two-part hands-on workshop on card weaving. Class descriptions follow
I’m tucking these in here so I can pull them down at the office.
I found a sericulture collective in Cooch Behar that raises the elusive and *amazingly* beautiful Muga silk, Antheraea assamensis. They sent me a packet of samples. I’m SO buying some of this stuff as soon as possible.
This is really not of much interest to anybody but me and a couple of friends. These are some silk organzines that I got samples of yesterday.
A brief personal interlude – this is where I work! It’s an arts center called The Sammons Center for the Arts; it’s in Dallas, on Oak Lawn at Harry Hines. It’s a renovated historic structure, and we provide office and rehearsal space for local performing arts groups. We have a monthly jazz music series called […]
I’m part of a community called stitchswap – we make and trade stitch markers. These are cloisonne beads; it’s great, because they’re substantial without being too heavy.
This past week, I’ve been taking a Saga nishiki (also: saganishiki) workshop with Mihoko Karaki. It’s a Japanese weaving technique that uses a gilded or lacquered rice-paper warp, and a silk weft. The design possibilities are AMAZING. The technique is uniquely Japanese, and is used traditionally to make handbags, jewelry, obis, and special shoes. This […]
I’ve been reading up on a style of embroidery called silk shading, thread painting, or needle painting. It’s a fairly realistic rendering style, using fine threads of silk or cotton. This is more of a needle sketch, than a needle painting… I wanted to see if I could render this stargazer petal in silk. The […]
My segment of HGTV’s That’s Clever is going to air TOMORROW! It will be on FRIDAY Jan. 5, at 1 PM ET/PT – which means it airs at 1 on the East Coast, noon Central, and there’s a separate feed that airs later on the West Coast. I’m not sure what happens for the folks […]