Rag rug, bookbinding

 

My first rag rug in progress – made with a cotton warp and the weft is one half of a queen size duvet cover bought at the local school gala for $4!  It takes longer to make the weaving strips than it does to weave the rug!

And some books just finished – coptic bound with quality heavy weight drawing and painting paper pages :

And four more covers which I have since made in to books but haven’t taken any pictures yet of the finished product

I also have some recycled books under way and will show some pictures soon.

I am enjoying the two branches at the moment – using lovely papers and heavy weight pages to make artists sketch books or small photo albums , guest books etc and recycling old  books with a variety of pages to make notebooks , travel diaries or journals.

My weaving also has the two aspects – I have been exploring rag rug weaving using recycled fabrics and on my small loom at the moment I have some new wool weaving with which I am exploring making spaces in the warp and weft.

More pictures to come!

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Bookbinding, weaving and a trip to Red Rocks

We had a lovely Sunday walk around the coast to Red Rocks a few weeks ago. The weather was fine and still and we even spotted a seal.

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I have made two more scarves for friends and done some bookbinding :

And I have a pile of books waiting to be assembled:

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Weaving and Bok Choy

Two more scarves -  made with pure merino and kid mohair wool:

The other night when making dinner using Bok Choy I remembered reading about making prints using celery. The end of the vegetable made such a neat pattern . Here are my ‘Rose’ prints using Bok Choy:

They were quite fun. Something to try again I think - maybe on fabric too.

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Holiday , weaving

An Easter break in a campervan north of Auckland.

Hokianga Harbour

In the Puketi Forest about 50km south of Kaitaia.

Movie watching!

Early morning dip.

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Weaving

And a wound warp waiting to be threaded on the loom.

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February - March

Spotted at the ‘Fill the Basin’ for Christchurch fundraiser – Sir Ian McKellan (Gandalf LOTR) , Bob Parker -Mayor of Christchurch and Richie McCaw – All Blacks Captain.

We had a great time – nobody cared who won the game , saw lots of Hobbits , film stars and cricket and sporting stars. It was a very positive place to be supporting Christchurch.

 

On the Rigid Heddle loom at the moment I have been experimenting with various weave structures and patterns:

And on my big floor loom I have a throw in progress – again experimenting with pattern and a simple weave:

Print class  playing with woodcut and stencil shapes.

I have a number of WIP s (Works in Progress)  so when the weather is a bit better I’ll take some pics to share.

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