
Auspicious Weaving
While you're weaving today, think of the Chinese New Year. Yesterday was the Chinese New Year’s Eve, which makes today the first day of the Year of the Pig.
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While you're weaving today, think of the Chinese New Year. Yesterday was the Chinese New Year’s Eve, which makes today the first day of the Year of the Pig.

Recently archaeologists have unearthed what is now the world’s oldest trousers.

Every once in a while a project comes along that makes me wish I had 16 (or more!) shafts. Bonnie Inouye’s truly spectacular Jin Silk Scarf from Handwoven Loom Theory: Eight and Over Eight Scarf Collection immediately made me wish I had 16 shafts.

Holiday weaving is tricky. It’s not like making cookies or a pie, which you might start two days before, at the earliest. Weaving takes time and requires planning, and when the holidays are upon you, it’s too late.

There are certain weavers whose work never fails to impress me, weavers who come up with designs that leave me breathless more often than not. One of those weavers is Bonnie Inouye.

Christina shares her inspiration for weaving this summer: textiles of India. This summer, let your weaving projects be inspired with color and texture too!



Sometimes when you are in the midst of something like Convergence you don't have a good sense of all that is going on.
