Many approaches to tapestry weaving | Taos in January
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by Rebecca Mezoff
1w ago
There is a lot of joy in getting together with a group of people who love the same things you do. I think we can safely say the people who came to my Taos retreat this month love yarn. Everyone has a different reason for weaving tapestry and those differences are always interesting for me to observe and ask about when I’m teaching. But generally we can all come together around the love of creating and yarn. In the workshop this month I had a lot of different approaches. One student was motivated to study tapestry for historical and sociological reasons related to her family and their place or ..read more
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Winter Trees Weave-Along Re-cap
Rebecca Mezoff Blog
by Rebecca Mezoff
3w ago
If you wove along with me in the winter trees project in November and December, thank you! I know some of you are still weaving or are just starting your winter scenes now. I wanted to post a little update with my finished projects and a link to those of yours that I’ve collected so far. If you’d like to join the project, there is a free PDF in my blog post on November 13, 2024 you can download for ideas and guidance. You can find that blog post HERE. I wove two projects. The first was a pine tree in the snow ..read more
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Hot air ballooning: flight among the red rocks
Rebecca Mezoff Blog
by Rebecca Mezoff
1M ago
During the holidays I was able to return to my hometown of Gallup, New Mexico to watch my favorite balloon festival, the Red Rock Balloon Rally. This small invitational rally is full of skilled pilots and beautiful balloons. They fly among the red rock canyons of Red Rock State Park. I find the flight of these balloons through the canyons and against the brilliant blue sky inspiring ..read more
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Ancestral Futures show in Taos
Rebecca Mezoff Blog
by Rebecca Mezoff
1M ago
During the retreat I taught in Taos last month, I took a bit of time at lunch to walk downtown and duck into a couple of stores I like to visit. I was long out of time, but was walking by the Taos Center for the Arts (TCA) before racing through Kit Carson park back to my students when I remembered an important detail I failed to put on the class calendar that week. The Ancestral Futures show was still up at the TCA. So I resolved to be late and ducked into the gallery. I was so glad I did! This post is full of images of outstanding tapestry and fiber artists from Northern New Mexico, both cont ..read more
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A trip to Taos and a great retreat
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by Rebecca Mezoff
1M ago
I headed to Taos, NM again in November to teach another tapestry retreat at Mabel Dodge Luhan House. This time around I’ve made a video of that trip showing you some of my adventures in search of Mabel Dodge Luhan herself and the fun we had in the workshop. You can watch the video below or if you get the blog via email, you can watch it on YouTube HERE ..read more
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Misspelling Crotchety and other tapestry mishaps
Rebecca Mezoff Blog
by Rebecca Mezoff
2M ago
Sarah Swett and I made a class about a particular warping technique six years ago now. Monday we did a live chat on YouTube to talk about our experience with Fringeless, answer your questions, and talk about the tapestry life. I have to say that hanging out with Sarah and making goofy videos (along with lots of serious ones) was a lot of fun then and clearly it is still fun now. I think the photo below clearly indicates the difference in our knitting abilities and probably also our weaving abilities. All tapestries in those photos are by Sarah and she wore gorgeous hand-knitted sweaters which ..read more
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Winter Trees Weave-Along projects
Rebecca Mezoff Blog
by Rebecca Mezoff
2M ago
It has been a lot of fun seeing what everyone is weaving for this weave along. I’ve been giving ideas and patterns on Change the Shed. If you’d like to join us, you can find all the details in THIS blog post from November 13, 2024. That post includes a free PDF download with some tips for weaving and some suggested designs. The two Change the Shed episodes where I have talked about this project so far can be found on YouTube. November 13, 2024 and November 27, 2024. In the episode on the 27th I started a new tapestry and we talked some about choosing yarn colors, especially as it comes to valu ..read more
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A fiber fiesta in Santa Fe, NM
Rebecca Mezoff Blog
by Rebecca Mezoff
2M ago
On that event-packed trip to Taos in October where I taught, went to the Taos Wools Festival, and saw the Horizons show in Santa Fe, I also had a couple hours to visit the Mountain and Valley Wool Association show at the fairgrounds in Santa Fe. This is the show that used to be Taos Wool Festival. It moved to Santa Fe some years ago now and I hadn’t been able to visit since their move. MAVWA in Santa Fe is very different than the one that happened for decades in Taos, but I found it interesting to see the new Taos Wools festival and MAVWA to visit back to back ..read more
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Weaving outside: Cows, thunderstorms, and puppies
Rebecca Mezoff Blog
by Rebecca Mezoff
2M ago
In August I took a couple weeks off and went car camping. My intention was to do some backpacking the second week but the thunderstorms in Colorado have been fierce this year and there is nothing worse than camping at 11,000 feet with lightening hitting all around. In fact, the big piñon tree behind our house got hit a few weeks ago. I thought the strike sounded frighteningly close to my bedroom. So car camping it was. I had some on-foot adventures and some driving adventures where I pretended my Subaru Crosstrek was a truck and I definitely did some weaving. Between all that, I read quite a f ..read more
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Tapestry sales: The cupboards are becoming bare!
Rebecca Mezoff Blog
by Rebecca Mezoff
2M ago
I have had my work at Taos Wools in Arroyo Seco for much of this year now and three pieces have sold this fall. Both of the Inscription pieces went home with new owners and Emergence VII went to one of my long-time students. Below is a photo of Inscription I as I was packaging it up to bring to the gallery in Taos earlier this year. This tapestry was about words and about losing them a piece at a time. I really enjoyed the color gradation and that bright pink. The yarns are hand-dyed by me. The ideas here came from the work of Anni Albers and it is something I’d like to return to in future ..read more
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