ETN: Crossover Borås – Impressions
A host of textile exhibitions and a visit to a weaver’s studio.
A host of textile exhibitions and a visit to a weaver’s studio.
A sea-and-road trip to Borås, Sweden for ETN’s 18th conference (and my first).
A party of weavers en route around Scotland.
This piece combines two of my new skills: painting a warp chain with inks made from natural dyes and using a supplementary warp to weave turned summer and winter.
Supplementary warps call for supplementary beams, ‘official’ and improvised.
A new warp ready to go: if only I had time to weave it.
The Celts are Coming!
Devising a new freeform structure to use supplementary warp patterning.
A significant shuttle makes a difference to my experience of freeform weaving.
As in “Down to Earth with a…”