Threads on the loom
In this time, in this place.For everything there is a season – and it appears there is a timetable as well. This spring has been deliciously slow and very cool. This pace seems to fit with the way my recent art has been evolving.I spent all of last month working on grants – and now it is back to color, thread, patterns, lines, paper spinning, drawing and dyes.I am in the midst of setting up two looms to create a four panel piece that will include the hand spun Shifu threads from “Well Used, Well Loved.”I have dyed 12 yards of a deep blue- black that will be a ground weave for the four panels. On the two outside panels (6’ by 2’) I will have a supplementary warp to stitch down the Shifu threads in horizontal lines. The effect I am seeking is that of a letter or document. The two inside panels (40” by 6”) will have the Shifu thread couched (stitched down) to the surface. The design is a pair of hands – a wide open palm and perhaps one hand in a mudra gesture.
Sketches for Well Used, Well Loved design