Red Thread

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

At the beginning of the school year I traced the word ‘Desire’ on my studio wall in red thread and pins. It felt important at the time. But now it’s time to take it off. As I pulled out the pins the thread made these wonderful crazy lines unravelling across the surface. I couldn’t resist…

Red

The red shed strand has worked wonderfully in the visual sense. The contrast between wood, wool and cotton is visually poetic and satisfying. But – from a technical point of view it’s not doing its job. The shed doesn’t shift smoothly and it’s not possible to operate the loom as one person alone. Yet. I…

‘All we love deeply becomes part of us.’ This is one of my Red Threads: the interlacing and entwining of the fabric of my jeans with the fabric of my self. Every stitch taken in the darning of my jeans involves the fabric more deeply and irreversibly with the beingness of my self. I am…

Weighting a Warp

For several years I have habitually chucked my coppers into an old vase as I like to be able to close my purse easily and never can be doing with footering about with coppers in a queue at a till. I remembered that if one takes coins to the bank to exchange for notes then…