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In summer 2011 I took part in this weaving design challenge organised by New Zealand weaver Meg Nakagawa. Here I reveal the work I was inspired to create.

I had quite forgotten that I haven’t posted any pictures of my 12-shaft honeycomb sample. It certainly has a waffly look about it. However, I don’t like it as much as the 8-shaft version. The cells are nice and deep, but the larger size gives less sense of movement. And to be honest it wasn’t…

of floats

My P2P2 sample warp looks a bit like a riot on the banks of the Ganges, but there is method in’t I promise. I’m trying a whole assortment of stripes so that I can see what happens when floats of one colour surround a cell of another colour. However, I started with a pre-sample (yes,…

least liked, most looked at

So I have been busy with my looking and an idea has begun to take shape. The picture I instinctively liked the least was this one, of the people bathing in the Ganges at the Varanasi ghats. Why don’t I like it? Well, mainly because I am not very keen on the colours (although they…

sticky stuff

Since yesterday’s brain pain I have been on a journey through the weaving books which has become steadily stranger and stranger. The root of the problem is a structure called Brighton honeycomb. It isn’t a structure that I have ever used before, and I am inclined to think that an awful lot of other people…

brain ache

It’s not a bright idea to try and get to grips with a new weave structure on a Sunday night. It is especially not a good idea to beat yourself over the head with a weaving book for an hour before thinking that it might be a good idea to check online for any errata……

looking

Some of the P2P2 participants have already made adventurous beginnings — you can see a chronology of the project if you visit this post on Meg’s blog — but I am still acclimatising. In order to facilitate that acclimatisation I have stuck the pictures on the wall above my desk. This way I can spend…