Mirrix Blog

When I was very young, my parents brought a needlepoint kit back from a trip to France. There were two projects. I ended up doing my own thing, coloring way outside the lines and discovered I liked needlepoint. I was able, over the years of that childhood, to cobble together materials to make my ...

A while back I was teaching a tapestry and bead weaving class at The Art Institute of New Hampshire. I remember one woman complaining a lot about her arthritic hands and I worked with her to try to find a way to use her hands effectively and with as little pain as possible. There were things she...

By Lloyd Pollack  I have been physically weaving on and off, in and out, for close to fifty years. In my head, I have always been a weaver. My interest started as many things do, by lucky accident, as my marriage was just starting the early 1970s. My wife decided to take a YMCA tapestry weaving c...

I have a basket where all my yarn scraps go. In it is everything from silk to wool; hand-dyed, hand-spun, commercial; every color of the rainbow. The pile just keeps getting bigger because I never know what to do with scraps.  I am sure many of you have the same problem, and so today we are launc...

Weaving a piece with hand-painted silk ribbon on a Mirrix loom.

I am not what you would consider a math wiz. I went out of my way in college to take a logic class to fulfill my math credits and even the "liberal arts-esque" statistics class I was forced to take in graduate school was enough to cause sleepless nights. I am infinitely more comfortable with word...