First, please flood this email box, to throw sand in the gears of the effort to demolish the CFPB. Note there's a typo in the quote below, it's as I wrote, initials of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and thanks to Chris for spotting it. Not cfbp, the p and b got reversed.
Thank you. Wednesday am update: either we packed the mailbox or they've taken it offline to outsiders, because at this point no emails are getting through. Sand.
Then I made it to the Tuesday Knitting Group
One member demonstrating the tubular cast on to another. Each one teach one. We've lengthened the sessions to an hour and a half, much better for time to work and chat.
Chat ranged over Come From Away, teaching voice, native species of trees and flowers, the local virgin beech forest, knitting for special projects, lunar New Year celebration, UK laws against Catholic practice, choosing dolls for children of different ethnic groups and abilities, Korean grandchildren, Indian grandchildren, free cycle, Serviceberry, and more.
Then came a pot of tea at home, and Textiles and Tea with Robin Kang, an artist working in the intersection of digital design and hand weaving, using a TC2 jacquard loom.
She warps a hundred-yard -- not a typo -- warp, once a year, takes a month to thread several hundred ends, and can create a year of output on that warp. Sometimes she does small pieces side by side, sometimes the whole 55" loom width.
She uses designs from technology and art nouveau, blending her tech past with the study she made in the rain forest, of dyes and early weave structures. She believes in the beauty of the glitch, sometimes by accident, sometimes purposeful.
The pictures show her work and indicate how hand weaving is still required on the high tech TC2. Take a look! Also more on her website.
Happy day, everyone, please send that email, and I hope you have happy encounters today.
Wish I could do the email thing but sadly it wouldn't mean much coming from Canada I don't think.
ReplyDeleteGlad you made it out to knitting group and enjoyed such interesting topics of conversation, and also a most interesting T&T session. A good day methinks.
I think I'd still go for it. What affects American consumers will affect Canadian ones sooner or later.
DeleteYes, it was a good day.
That weaving is fantastic. I suppose she designs the works too.
ReplyDeleteOf course. She's the artist end to end.
DeleteSpeaking of come from away Sue just got a tote bag that her sister bought for her last November. It was delivered late to her sister and then the mail backed up here because of the strike so she just got it now in February.
ReplyDeleteNot sure what the connection is with 9/11 and Newfoundland, but okay..
DeleteOK, I was setting up a new ipad so input wasn’t the best. Let me capitalize Come From Away, which should help. The sisters saw the play together, and H bought the bag for S online. It took awhile to get to H and then another long while to get to S. The whole process took about 3 months. The bag is the connection and the fact they saw the play live.
DeleteDone. Thanks for the info. But I think the website should be mark.paoletta@cfpb.gov instead of @cfbp, yes?
ReplyDeleteWay behind on posts - hope you have working toilets by end of day tomorrow, and that the attendant water damage isn't too bad. Thank goodness for little brown poodles (so much better than brown puddles)!
Chris from Boise
Thanks for the correction. My own intro had it right and it looks as if the person I quoted had a typo.
DeleteBehind on posts?? You mean F and F isn't completely top priority?? I'm shocked, shocked!
Can an intended glitch ever truly be a glitch? It's a kink by design. I love her art nouveau work - the colours are alive, life affirming.
ReplyDeleteI think it's when a glitch happens and you leave it instead of fixing it. She's an interesting designer.
DeleteSuch great weavings. I must admit I prefer the more subtle color combinations.
ReplyDeleteI like her white warps better than the black ones. But she's a stunning designer.
DeleteI love those bold geometric woven designs!
ReplyDeleteP.S. I must tell you . . . recently I had coffee with My Rare One who has now taken up knitting Izzy Dolls! (I didn't even know she could knit). A friend of hers makes them too and showed her how. And of course I knew all about Izzy Dolls because of your blog, so thanks!
ReplyDeleteIzzy dolls, social currency! That's interesting. Did she say where she sends them?
DeleteIt appears that anything which helps people is under attack in the U.S. these days. My impulse might be to block it all out but action is the only response which would help. Thanks for leading the way, Boud.
ReplyDeleteAnd action really can work. It's not just to make a person feel better, it's actually useful work. Just keeping people's spirits up is vital when we're under attack. That's why I'm scrolling through and past bloggers who are venting with no action. I can't waste bandwidth there.
DeleteI like her work. I also like poodles!
ReplyDeleteNice day, one thing and another.
DeleteI don't even know how to comment today. I am too overwhelmed by the power of someone who, with the flick of a finger, has changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico, to find the energy to try to practice micro resistance. I'm sorry. I am not proud of myself for this.
ReplyDeleteI like your balance of resisting, creating and interacting.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I think we all need to try for a balance.
DeleteI sent an email right away.
ReplyDeleteHer work is absolutely art!
What a nice group to be a member of.
Glad you got to meet the pup and its human. ;)
Thanks for emailing. And, yes, nice day in good company.
DeleteIt came back unable to be delivered. Now that I know why I shall send another. ;)
DeleteThat IS a happy thing! Thanks for the e-address.
ReplyDeleteGlad you made it. Groovy.
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