New perspectives

I have some of my weaving experiments propped against a wall in my living room … to offer inspiration, encouragement for more exploration.

I’m very particular about how I display them … the orientation (landscape, portrait), the ordering of the colours, the order of the panels.

when cleaners attack

I’ve had to come to accept that my cleaners don’t have a photographic memory to remember how the panels were before they moved them to dust … and so, on cleaning day, I return home to find them rearranged quite randomly.

It has been known to cause me angst. Though now I think I’ve come to appreciate the new perspectives an unexpected reordering can give me.

Experiment 9

Mmm …

‘Study 009, Yellow-ish … but not quite as retina-burning as I wanted’

As you can tell by the title, it’s not quite what I was wanting to make.

Study 009

It’s quite odd that I wanted to make a bright yellow weave … yellows and most oranges, and yellow-greens, are my least favoured colours.

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Experiment 8

‘Study 008, Hamlet’

Inspired by the recent discovery of a phrase from Hamlet, in which his father’s ghost says of his tale that it would “harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood“.

experiment 8

I’ve obtained some of those little pins that are used to display insects and butterflies … I like their little heads better than the flat and more obvious ones of simple sewing pins; plus they’re not so shiny-shiny.

experiment 8

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Experiment 7

‘Study 007, Silver‘

Oh this is my favourite experiment to date, by far.

Every silver-ish tinted paper I have in my collection has been included. No particular ordering has been chosen, in fact it was woven in the order I found them in my papers folder (yes, I have a folder; I’m an organisational fiend, I’m sure I’ve told you).

Study 007

I love how the raking light brings out the different tints – separately, each paper doesn’t look so terribly different from the others, but at different angles and when next to each other the tones are amazingly different.

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