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Dog Dog Dog Dog

Woof Woof

Forgive the pun.

Four Feet and a Tail

Dog, Again

Old friends, best friends.

New Blue

A change in the weave structures of the Field of Flowers produced this result, with a blue/white mixture for the background, and single colors for the flowers. The leaves remain the same.

Field of Flowers

For a while now I've wanted to do a lampas jacquard fabric with no narrative content, just an overall pattern. The feeling of a calico, or an old-fashioned floral wallpaper design. Perhaps for a book cover.

I started with a loose brush drawing of a single blossom, arranged in a geometric repeat. Here's the initial result.

With this all black warp, the primary fabric is basket weave in black cotton, and there are two secondary wefts: blue silk noil and natural wool/silk. The flower centers are both secondary wefts used together for an intermediate blue shade.

The flower centers don't show up all that well. I'm thinking of changing the color order so that the background is the blue-natural blend and the flower centers are solid blue. We'll see.

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Decay and Birth

It's funny how themes sometimes pair up by accident (or not by accident). Like this one. There's a camellia bush outside my studio door with red and white blossoms on it. When they fall, as they are doing this morning, there is a melange of red, pink, white, gold, brown, all together on the bench. A delicious image of decay.

And the story unfolding on my loom is about birth. It's a transcription of a graffiti I saw on a bathroom wall a few months ago in a restaurant in North Carolina (I don't make these things up).

My grandmother was

drinking whiskey &

smoking cigs in the

birthing room when I

was born...I'm not sure

what this means...

 

 

Pink and Blue

Our redbud trees are blossoming. There is nothing like a branch of redbud against a clear blue sky on a spring morning. Nothing.

That's Cercis canadensis, y'all.

 

Point of View

I've put on enough warp for three shawls after playing around with the silk/wool samples. The first shawl is underway. The introduction of an orange bamboo weft changes the game considerably. As many weavers have found, the color temperatures morph depending on your viewpoint. Here's the web seen from the left:

And here it is from the right:

The almost-white filament silk in the warp is highly reflective, and the direction of the light is very low-angle. Fun and games.

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My current favorite vegetable is fennel. I add it to salads, and I don't tell anyone what it is. So far no complaints. The best thing about fennel is the way it looks when you slice it transversely. I think it looks a little bit like an aerial map of a small village. There's the city center with the school and the library, and then the surrounding streets and the little houses…

Outdoors, spring has suddenly exploded. It's actually too warm to walk at midday. Soon I will have to get up at 6 am to walk. But not quite yet.

March is a pretty festive month around here. Three birthdays in the family. We like to celebrate them all at once. The youngest celebrant prefers ziti bolognese, so that's what he gets.