Yesterday's Textiles and Tea was a great presentation by a brilliant Thai researcher, academic and practicing weaver
She was speaking from Finland yesterday at a conference, but lives, teaches and exhibits now in Canada by way of Estonia and other countries.
She's written a book for general population and has an academic work coming out this year about material properties, very niche.
Look what she does with wire and spun paper. She works spontaneously, no drawing ahead nor computer mapping.
Behind her in this picture is a design of tangled loops, part of a work she created to honor and acknowledge the situation of her father who has dementia. It's very moving.
She's combined art weaving for exhibit with industrial designs for interiors, a many faceted working life. Look at her website for more.
Back to earth, and here's the latest offering to the Sock Ministry, going off today
And my contact, Sister M, has promised to restock my sock yarn supply.
I followed up on a comment I saw this morning, thank you, to share this amazing new fiber work, currently on exhibit at the London Chelsea Flower Show, a huge event in the horti world.
She grew wheatgrass over corals and other natural materials so it adopted the shape. This dress is totally biodegradable. She says the bride could literally throw it in the sea, and fish could safely eat it.
I like the idea of the First Swim instead of the First Dance! Bride emerges in cute underwear, dress having dissolved.
And LP in other less world shaking good news, the squashogram was normal, usual anomalies noted but now not a cause for alarm. And I retrieved my parking spot.
Slightly less welcome in the mail from the utility company, the annual balancing bill, where the equal payments of the year are compared to usage and you get either a bill or a credit.
One year they owed me and then went mad grossly undercharging me this year, so I was expecting a big reckoning
It's no use calling them to ask about doing better with the averaging, tried that, word salad, one admin contradicting another.
I just hope they're more accurate this year. And glad I planned and made sure the $$ is in the account for them to debit.
So that's The World According to Boud today. Off to the post office with the Knitting, now including Weaving.
Happy day everyone, enjoy whatever adventure you're up for, any size.
