Can you weave from the top down rather than the bottom up?
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Mirrix Blog
I just got back from a trip that included six wonderful days in Marrakech, Morocco. The city is filled with color and patterns like nowhere else I've been. Even our modest riad was filled with design touches that made anywhere I've stayed or lived in the States seem dull. Why are my walls WHITE w...
Over the past few weeks I've spent a lot of time in art museums, from the Dalí Paris to the The Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden in Marrakech to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. I saw lot of modern and contemporary out-of-the-box and thought provoking work that...
The mystery of collecting yarn for weft weaving and tapestry is easily unraveled. This is part one!
My husband woke up before me this morning as usual. I set myself in a very comfortable fetal position and started thinking. I started thinking about this blog which I planned to write once I was ready to escape my sheets and stoke up my computer. It is a blog about creativity. It's how I create a...
Why aren't my edges straight? Why is my warp showing? What materials and finishing methods make for a quality weaving?
These are questions every beginning weaver (tapestry or weft-faced) has had at some point. Straight edges, correct warp spacing and durability are three basic elements that help ...