Just one week left before all my work has to be spick and span ready for marking for the end of year three. I’ve spent most of this week sorting out and tidying up, cleaning the space and making final decisions about positions of everything in relation to everything else and sorting out technical problems…
Category: Fine Art Textiles
Spun Silk Warp
Stitching the silk warp Silk warp waterfall Today I finished warping up my hand-spun silk projector screen and stabilising the top with a red thread stitched through. The flow of the silk laid over the table caught my eye. It reminds me of currents in a river. Silk flow 1 Silk flow 2
Boro Evolution
Left leg, 9th October 2013 I was looking through my photos today, and I was struck by how much my jeans have changed. In the first picture here the front of the left leg is almost intact although you can see where I have reinforced the fragile original material with the first layers of patch…
Exploring Twist in Wild Fibre
Fine Roots Wandering by the Findhorn River on a rare and precious half hour off of essay writing. I can never leave my creative practice behind though. Every where I look I see things I could spin, things that will give my fibre colour, things that make links in my thoughts with my studio practice….
Boro Jeans
It’s just over two years since I began mending my one pair of jeans. The first two patches were over the kneecaps: on the left knee is a piece of my godson’s traditional Norwegian naming day shirt and on the right a bit of tweed from his sisters’ coat. I am very hard on the…
Spin, Spun, Span
Spun Silk warp I am planning on projecting woven film onto this spun silk warp screen… The process onto the produced. The balls of silk have such a lovely handle although every slight rough patch of skin catches on them. The visual texture of the silk is wonderful: wound into a ball, drizzled on the…
Spun silk
Two beautiful skeins of spun silk Plying Silk Finally all my silk is spun, plied and wound into skeins ready for washing, drying and winding into balls… My hands will be glad of the change as silk, so divinely soft and lush to the gently touching hand, is really strong and needs a lot of…
Studio wanderings
Just looking at the interactions between space, shape and colour… Fresh-cut Alder wood/Crottle dyed yarn Big loom/tiny looms soft lines/hard lines Yarn stretched tight/yarn hanging soft
Fibre Alchemy 