Monthly Archives: December 2008

Japanese crests in Photoshop

Following the double-happiness draft, I started thinking of other things that could be done with Asian symbols.  I remembered that I have a book full of Japanese heraldic crests, which are typically round in shape, stylized, and quite beautiful.  Just the sort of thing that would work well in weaving! Since I didn’t have the [...]

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Woven Chinese calligraphy

I couldn’t sleep this morning (my body wakes me up at 5-6am regardless of when I went to sleep) so I decided to play around with drafts while waiting for everyone else to get up.  I started playing with a very blocky double-happiness symbol, thinking that would be easier to manage: It’s a symmetric design, [...]

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Eternity knot

I had a lovely Christmas (which I find amusing, since I’m a mostly-lapsed Wiccan and the entire rest of my family is devoutly atheist – but, as my mom says, “No good Chinese person would turn down an opportunity for a celebration!).  Actually three Christmases, one with my brother, his wife, and my mom; one [...]

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A better pretty

I went back to the Celtic knots from yesterday and realized that the lines were all conflicting, so I discarded the stripes and produced this pattern, which I like a LOT better: Not appropriate for the coat, perhaps, but it would make a very lovely cloth.  Not sure just what yet, but this one I [...]

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Three-strand braid

Continuing the Celtic motif, I did a three strand braid in two variations this morning as well.  The top one has sharp corners and the bottom one has round corners. I don’t like this braid as much as the four-strand braid, but it’s interesting to play with.  There are some other neat tricks you can [...]

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