Blog: Musings on Textile Art
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Tapestry at the World of Threads Festival
2018-10-23 20:09:09 UTC
I recently traveled to Oakville, Ontario for the exhibition opening of the 2018 World of Threads Festival. I’m not exactly sure when I first became aware of World of Threads, but only fairly recently. This was my first time entering, but I’m sure it will not be my last.
The…
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Late to the Party: Threads of Resistance
2018-09-30 17:30:09 UTC
I’ve recently finished a piece that is inspired by the toxic political divide we now endure. It is called “Lose/Lose” and it consists of nine 4” x 4” tapestries with embroidered and beaded embellishment
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Lose/Lose, 16 x 16 inches, wool, silk, beads.
This piece is a continuation of an older…
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Warp-tastic
2018-08-23 18:08:00 UTC
After a lot of travel and time away from the studio, my latest piece is finally finished! I’ve titled it “Lotus Lines.”
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Lotus Lines, 42”x36”
If you read my last blog post, you know that I wove this tapestry on its side, leaving gaps for the warps to span. I…
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What’s on the Loom?
2018-05-21 21:41:52 UTC
My current project is a ‘baby step’ out of the box, for me. I am still working with my lotus pond source material, but I am doing several things, both design wise and technique wise, that I have never done before. I am about half-way done on this project and…
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Hanging the Beast
2018-05-04 18:11:46 UTC
Recently, I completed the largest tapestry I have ever attempted. By European standards, it is not all that big, but at 60” x 60” it seems downright huge to me. It is twice the size of anything I have ever woven before. When it comes to hanging tapestries, I have…
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Je Suis un Lissier
2018-04-16 22:51:50 UTC
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I trace my tapestry “lineage” to the French tradition through Mary Lane via Ruth Scheuer via Jean Pierre Larochette and the San Francisco Tapestry Workshop, active 1977-1988. How Jean Pierre ended up in the USA in the first place is a fascinating story. To learn about this historical period, I…
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How an Iowa Girl found her Tapestry Groove
2018-04-05 15:15:26 UTC
I think it is only fitting to start this blog adventure at the beginning and tell my story: what attracted me to textiles in the first place, and how in the heck did I get into tapestry weaving? It is a good question.
I grew up in Iowa. Like just…