Random Acts of Color

What is a skeleton tieup? I think of it as connecting two (or sometimes even three) bones, as in a real skeleton, to achieve one function --...

  Above is a name draft using -- why not? -- the name Michelangelo, employing an Echo threading and a twill tieup and treading. A name draft...

  Above: An Echo sample by Maryann Ariizumi of the Seattle Weavers Guild, woven  on 12 shafts in my "One Warp" workshop. Photo cou...

Last week I taught at the New England Weavers Seminar -- well known as NEWS -- in Worcester, Massachusetts. Not only was it run very well (r...

 It all starts with a 1626 portrait of John Erskine, 2nd Earl of Mar and Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, painted by Adam de Colone.  The pa...