LOOM WORLD.

Bhutan India IranMexicoSaudi ArabiaScotlandTurkeyUSA Uruguay – – -Yesterday I took a trip to the New York Public Library – Picture Collection. The Picture Collection is a room full of folders stuffed with images that have been torn from books and mounted on white paper. (you can see some shelves in the background) Almost every subject [...]

HUICHOL & TEPEHUAN FASHION.

COLORS, layers! Talented weavers & yarn painters. I’d like to learn from these women all things related to textile, color & making. Huichol & Tepehuan are indigenous ethnic groups in Mexico. Street fashion photography via Mexico Culture  

& more ROPE

I made this basket. Ropes into basketry. A great time!

ROPES & KNOTS.

excerpt from KNOTS – useful & ornamental double fisherman’s knot all above : double carrick knot, animated lesson here turk’s head knot, how to tie here with really nice computer drawings I’ve entered into the mesmerizing world of ropes & knots! And now spending too much time and money at Tents & Trails staring and [...]

ANASAZI LOOM HOLES.

Haunting. The loom that once was. Photographs by Tad Nichols in Glen Canyon Utah 1958.via Northern Arizona University – Cline Library

NAVAJO LOOMS.

Women, weaving, the 1970s — with the backdrop of beauty, Monument Valley Utah. Highly stylized photography and captions by Josef Muench.1. Navajo Indian Rug. Woven on a crude loom from sheep that the Navajo woman probably sheared herself, this fine rug has a corn design and its brilliant colors and fine texture will last for [...]

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