Textiles and Tea this week featured Marcia Weiss, an accomplished weaver in linen, making ikat and double weaving.
You know how a book can be very good but pale against a much better one you read right before? I think this weaver came off less notably, because I'd seen a lot of the current Barbican exhibit. Their passionate energy and drive left this work looking much less lively.
But she's great and here are the slides she showed -- more tell than show this week -- so she gets her due
Earlier I'd gone to the knitting group and a favorite friend was the other participant, along with the librarian. She was continuing the red sweater she's been on a while, I was socking, and doing a bit on the pin loom. I found I weave better when I'm not chatting.
The librarian immediately looked up pinlooms, new to her,to learn more, would like one like mine, but was daunted to see vintage ones are not in great supply, and modern plastic ones are more expensive than you'd think.
We talked about making your own using a picture frame, tapping in brads in the pin pattern. The other participant, D, is all for making your own tools! That way you could make any size of square.
Chat ranged over Portugal in September, Malta now, starting scallions, helping reluctant parents declutter, summers off, jury duty, shared email addresses, curry leaves, bay leaves, growing tomatoes, rain, tiny knitted sock earrings, ear piercing, birth order, and other topics. You can have a large conversation in a small group.
Cold and rainy again sigh. But happy day, anyway! I'll keep cheerful with hot chocolate.
