Available February 28, 2024 from Schiffer Books For a very long time, I have been intrigued by the sculptural possibilities of pulled-warp tapestries.  Susan Iverson’s new book, Tapestry With Pulled Warp: Inspiration, Technique, and the Creative Process, makes me want to carve out some time to sample and to explore.  This book combines clear written instructions with lots of technical images, beginning with how to set up the loom for weaving samples, the materials and tools needed for making patterns and the spacers for inserting into the warp while weaving. For those of us who tend ..read more

Waterline at Farfield Mill in Cumbria, UK. Photo credit: Anna Wetherell Tapestries left to right: Veronique Van Zeeland’s “van Slingerland: De IJssel;” Christine Rivers’ “Rocks and Water;” Katarlina Paakki’s “Walking With Miss P;” Anna Wetherell’s “Waterline of the Rawley.” Rivers significant in our lives; rivers flowing through multiple regions and countries, through geologic memory and human cultures that have come and gone; water as the life force that continues to undergird our existence, with its swift currents, reflections, and ripple patterns.  The Waterline collaborative project ..read more

©️2023 Elizabeth J. Buckley Ebb and Flow 14.24” x 28.25” wool, perle cotton, hand-dyed silk ©️Kathy Spoering The Duet Sponsored by the Chattahoochee Handweavers Guild of Atlanta, Georgia, this Biennial of Textiles is the longest, continuous juried show in the Southeast. Tommye McClure Scanlin was the juror for this year's exhibit that focused on the theme of Transformation.   “Transformation...In the period leading up to Transformation, we have experienced a global pandemic, isolation, and unexpected changes to how we work, live, and socialize. This drastic shift has brought out a resil ..read more

Over the course of 50 years, Silvia Heyden created a total of 800 tapestries in her body of work. 800 tapestries. Think about it and what that means in terms of a lifetime of hours and days spent designing, making sketches, exploring the textile nature of tapestry, and the countless strands of thread woven in each work; the stream of thoughts surrounding the connection with each tapestry growing into being on the loom. The newly published book, Movement in Tapestry: Silvia Heyden, offers us a glimpse into her studio practice through excerpts from her writings and extensive documentation of he ..read more

Linda Wallace in front of The Journey Back on loom, April 4, 2014. Photo Credit: Elaine Duncan “I am an artist and a feminist. As an artist, I try to step back in order to find a slightly different angle, a different perspective. In presenting these vantage points I am not so much presenting definitive answers as I am asking questions and proposing alternatives. As I stretch the boundaries of my own knowledge and understanding, I communicate, through my art, my observations and thoughts. These concepts are filtered through the medium of woven tapestry, drawing on both its narrative power and ..read more

Tapestry Design Basics and Beyond: Planning and Weaving With Confidence by Tommye McClure Scanlin Immediately upon opening this book, it is clear that this is a well-honed cumulation of the decades that Tommye McClure Scanlin has been teaching and working with tapestry students from a broad variety of backgrounds.  She describes the fundamental principles of visual design and how they apply to tapestry in a very sensible and accessible manner. Part One is an Overview of Design Fundamentals where each element and each principle of Visual Design has accompanying examples in tapestry ..read more

Solo Exhibition at Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, NM July 2 - 31, 2021 Ikat banners (left to right): Thicket, Live Wire, Prey, Anchor 64.5” x 31.5” ©️Polly Barton photo credit: Wendy McEahern Photograpy The title of Polly Barton’s solo exhibition, “Dare, Revel, Dive,” at Chiaroscuro Galley in Santa Fe, NM “corresponds with the three distinctive, yet connected bodies of work: large ikat weavings with warp designs (Dare), pastel color fields on paper (Revel), and handwoven linen paper with mixed media added (Dive), which Barton refers to as ‘weaving my own paper.’ “  —from Chiar ..read more

The Thread’s Course in Tapestry by Mette Lise Rössing Available at: https://www.billedvaevning.dk/indexEng.php                                                               I first learned about this book several years ago, then life intervened and I forgot about it until recently.   ..read more

The Nature of Things: Essays of a Tapestry Weaver by Tommye McClure Scanlin Each year, mid-November through the end of the year has become my time for being in retreat in my studio.  This year, I am weaving at my basse lice loom, working on a large format tapestry that will be 60” x 60” when completed.  It has been in-progress on the loom for over one and one-half years, and I am now just beyond the mid-point.  I was away from this tapestry for four months this fall as I shifted my teaching online.  I have been savoring these mornings of daily weaving a ..read more

By Jean Pierre Larochette and Yadin Larochette, illustrations by Yael Lurie Available at Schiffer Books Over the past five decades, many of us have studied with Jean Pierre Larochette and Yael Lurie, whether it was at the San Francisco Tapestry workshop in the 1970’s to early 1980’s, or in the shorter, intensive workshops they taught around the United States from the mid-1980’s to early 2000’s, or at their place at El Tuito, Mexico over the past sixteen years. With this book, more weavers now have access to this generational knowledge of masters, as well as the historical context on the devel ..read more