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A lovely garnet red/black handwoven coat, in a Celtic knotwork pattern of my own devising. Still in progress.
I expect this project to take me a year or so to complete – I intend not only to design and weave the fabric, but also to design and sew the dress myself, using couture sewing methods. There are three fabrics in this wedding ensemble – an eternity knot pattern, a Chinese double-happiness character pattern (the double-happiness character signifies a happy marriage), and a three-strand Celtic braid pattern. Together they symbolize a wish for eternal happiness in marriage!
Yes!!!
Today we pinned up the hem, cut and shaped the ribbon, and did various other housekeeping things. But we took a passel of photos while we were working on the hem:
Coat, front view
wedding coat, back view
dress, three-quarter view
dress, front view
dress, back view
dress, closeup of back
dress, closeup of sleeve
dress triptych
dress diptych
These are really cool. (No, really.) The colored stripes and moire patterns in these socks are achieved using very precise skeining and dyeing technique – carefully space-dyed (handpainted) yarn. I call them “ikat socks” because they look a bit like ikat (warp-painted) fabric.
I started this shawl in June, 2003, shortly before AIDS Lifecycle 2.
I had just finished my travel shawl, a blue silk shawl handspun on a drop spindle as I roamed around Southeast Asia on a quasi-pilgrimage, letting go of my past life and considering what came next. I knitted the travel shawl in a counterclockwise spiral as I wandered–which, in Wicca, means letting go, undoing.
On my return, I needed a new project, so I decided to make a companion piece–a clockwise spiral that would help build my new life, the things I most valued.
