Narrative: Memory Cloth and Projection

Last night was the final weaving crit for the semester, and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. I guess I had been looking at the cloth for so long with frustration, that I just assumed everyone else would be as frustrated as I was, and that was not the case. It just reminded [...]

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Puppets and Looms and Stilts, Oh My!

So this is my warp for my Puppets and Prosthetics final. I am not at all certain that this is going to work- the double cloth warp seems a little funky pulled through my makeshift dent reed, but I shall carry forth!  The bit to the left is for a little side fringe action, and [...]

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Revisions

The fun part about weaving pickup- you’re drawing, but you can’t go back and erase. Well, I suppose you could, but it might take you eons, and I don’t have that kind of time. Not to mention, I was having serious problems with my sheds not raising enough to pass the shuttle through, so I [...]

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Weaving for Practicality and Wearable Art!

At the end of my last project (the double cloth pick-up narrative) I had a lot of warp left over (that’s something to be said for calculating too much waste) and I really didn’t want to waste the beauty of the bamboo and tencel deliciousness. Seeing as I had the yarn and the time, I [...]

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Projecting Woven Narrative

I haven’t been talking a lot about weaving lately, mostly because I’ve been sorta stuck. My latest weaving assignment is a doublecloth pick-up project which describes a specific date and place through the use of imagery and choice of color. Essentially, this project is perfect for me. It’s narrative by nature and has few limitations, [...]

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Good News!

This is totally how I feel today. Dear Rachel, It is with great pleasure that I offer you summer employment as a Teaching Assistant/Resident Counselor (TARC) for the 2009 Pre-College Studio Residency Program at the Maryland Institute College of Art. I just got this lovely e-mail today, after months of brow wrinkling from worries, so [...]

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You & Me

This is a simple book I printed and bound for my Intro to Poetry class.  Our final for the semester is a Chapbook of at least 10 poems of a common theme. My book is entitled you & me and consists of ten poems concerning the lives of two early 20th century characters, Lady Victorian [...]

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Microscopic Puppetry Revisited

This is my half of the solution to the microscope problem, part of a collaborative 2 women, one magnifying glass microscopic puppet show for my Puppets and Prosthetics class. Each slide represents a vignette of one big human tragedy or large scale disaster with the puppets as the slide clovers- small, insignificant plants and animals [...]

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The Best Way to Display Fabric

When you don’t have a real job, a place to live, and are desperately trying to find those things in the middle of the crazy, end of semester madness of classes, finals, internshipping, and library working, sometimes the only thing you can do is wrap yourself up in some handwoven goodness and let the cloth [...]

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A Lesson in the Creative Process

As an artist, I am not usually fond of collaborating, but this week I find myself working with a good friend on a project for our Puppets and Prosthetics class. So far it’s been a hilarious adventure of things just not working out. The assignment: Giants and Miniatures The idea: To use a microscope with [...]

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