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Weaving
I've been weaving since October 2006, and am in love with it! It is the most complex and challenging of the fiber arts. I weave on a 24-shaft, 24" AVL Workshop Dobby Loom, exploring different weave structures and playing with color. I hope you enjoy perusing my weaving gallery!Finished Works
black jewel
This is another shawl woven on the 2/28 silk warp, with colors that gradually transition from turquoise to fuchsia and back again. It is woven with a black cashmere weft and is SO soft and sensuous against the skin! It is one of my favorites, and I wear it often.
ocean sunset shawl
The shawl is made from 2/28 nm silk dyed in 60 colors (!) – 29 in the warp and 21 in the weft. It is woven in stripes, each stripe so similar in color to its neighbors that the transition appears seamless. There are 58 stripes in the warp and far more in the weft. Each warp stripe is only 1/2″ wide!
Silk & cashmere jacket
This jacket was my first attempt at sewing my own handwoven fabric, and one of my very early attempts at design. I hand-dyed all the yarns in this jacket, and dyed the silk lining as well.
tiger eye
This piece was my first attempt at designing my own patterns, and I’m still very proud of it. I took the “Heart Throb Scarf” pattern from Twill Thrills: The Best of Weaver’s and modified it ruthlessly until I had a pattern I liked. I cut off the top part of the heart, reflected the bottom half of the heart to produced a “slit pupil” effect, then tinkered with the pattern beneath the heart until I had a rounded cat’s eye. I then hand-dyed the silk warp in two subtly different shades of orange (to add visual interest), and the cashmere weft in solid black.
garnet shawl
This shawl was one of my early attempts at network drafting. The inspiration for the garnet red weft came when I dyed some yarn for a Tibetan lama friend – she had requested an auburn-to-maroon shade, and I liked the resulting yarn so much that I dyed some more in the same color!