Tag: weaving
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January 17, 2009 09:20 PM EST --
There exists a color, highly coveted by the artisans of the Pacific Northwest coast, by carvers, weavers, poets and philosophers alike, which most deeply represents life there. It's the color which . . .
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June 17, 2008 08:28 AM EDT --
I love color. I think it started with my first box of crayons. I particularly loved the big box of sixty-four – more colors to choose from.
Later I discovered yarn. I could be content . . .
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November 19, 2008 10:33 AM EST --
Weaving
An Array of Table Runners in different sizes, colors, designs and textures.
Although lately I’ve been trying my hand at writing, weaving has been my occupation. These are . . .
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May 21, 2007 07:48 PM EDT --
Janie came home the other day and said Macy's was having a sale on rugs. This was good news. I wasn't quite sure what to do about that big stain on the carpet, and covering it . . .
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September 25, 2006 12:18 AM EDT --
Art and nature click
Indian basket weaver
Echos the pine cone
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July 01, 2007 01:38 PM EDT --
Baskets of mystery, so said for designs
In colored straw, weaved,
And lids askew that fail to reveal
What fills--or could hide in their depths.
Weaver of mysteries, I see in your eyes
A mischievous, . . .
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August 31, 2008 12:14 AM EDT --
These are some pictures of rugs I have made over the course of my weaving career.
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February 19, 2009 03:08 PM EST --
I have book searching for an all-inclusive book on beading. I finally found it! THE BEADER'S HANDBOOK is one that I would recommend for any beader but especially for the newbie - . . .
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November 21, 2008 08:53 AM EST --
Wheat weaving is an old craft that uses minimal materials and a little dexterity, which I've seen demonstrated at various fairs and festivals. Some elaborate creations are even marketed on eBay. . . .
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February 05, 2009 08:04 PM EST --
Some have asked about my work; so, I thought I would provide an essay of sorts.
I had always been attracted to color and fiber as far back into childhood as I can remember. My aunt tried to teach . . .
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April 11, 2008 08:07 PM EDT --
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January 15, 2009 10:56 PM EST --
Navajo teachings contain descriptions of Navajo weaving whose thrust is that weaving was a skill the Navajo learned from Spider Woman while still in the underworld. By contrast, the majority of ethnographic, . . .
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September 27, 2009 07:31 PM EDT --
Oriental Carpets, Rugs & Kilims: Origins & History
The origins of the hand woven oriental pile rug in existence are documented and verified from the early 4th century BC. . . .
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May 02, 2007 02:14 AM EDT --
This is my first attempt at card weaving. I found the directions on the Internet. I first heard of it years ago when an SCA weaver gave us a tour of his weaving workshop.
Here is the website I learned . . .
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May 14, 2008 08:18 PM EDT --
Oriental rugs are made as far west as Morocco and as far east as eastern China; as far north as Mongolia and as far south as India. Today's most important oriental rug weaving areas are in Turkey, . . .
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October 17, 2009 07:27 PM EDT --
Not quite an hour's drive east from Binghamton on Route 17 we come to the charming little village of Windsor, New York.
Galahad and I almost bought a house there, many years ago, and I will never . . .
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May 24, 2008 07:17 PM EDT --
In 1949 the Chinese invaded Tibet, and inadvertently changed the modern history of Oriental carpets.
Before then, Tibetans made rugs for their own uses, which often involved religious ceremonies. There . . .
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September 29, 2008 01:38 PM EDT --
A group of us here in the village of Yellow Springs, Ohio, have been talking and meeting together for several months, developing ideas for a folkschool. The concept has proven to be magnetic, something . . .
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May 18, 2008 05:14 PM EDT --
One of the 'revolutionary' aspects of modern oriental rug production has been the return of natural dyes.
Not long ago, shoppers who were interested in new oriental rugs (or who couldn't . . .
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May 15, 2006 06:01 PM EDT --
The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It: A Complete Back to Basics Guide is a book by John Seymour, the international father of self-sufficiency, printed by DK publishing.
Though it is becoming a . . .
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