YarnShifting - {Chapter 8}

(Weaving advanced shapes + Creative Projects -2)

This chapter shows how to yarnshift an octagon, hexagon and other ‘odd’ shapes which we have called the stingray, the house, the star and weaving-around-the-corner. It introduces the need for a ‘pre-shift’, after which the shape is completed using one of the techniques learned earlier, (the four basic shapes).

Also, since this Substack channel now includes ‘creative projects’, not all of them just to do with textiles, there are some more pics to enjoy.

But meanwhile here’s the next chapter:

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CREATIVE PURSUITS -2

(i).YOGA-STRAP: Tablet-woven yoga-strap made for one of my daughters; kumihimo braiding for the ends. The pattern is an ancient Turkish one, and how it was done kept textile historians perplexed until the 1990s when someone figured it out.

(ii).DOG-LEAD: Tablet-woven dog-lead made for my brother’s 70th birthday.

(iii).GEODESIC-FLOWER-DOME: In 2012 I built an 8m diameter geodesic structure to grow plants over, to create a shade-cave in our garden. This is what it looks like now from the inside, when you want to snooze a bit on a hot Summer’s day …

… it’s covered in climbing roses, wisteria, jasmine, eating grapes, purple ‘potato-flowers’ and other plants whose names I forget.

and a cool setting in dappled light to have a few friends around for lunch …

I have found that ‘Creative Projects’ are a way of expressing my ‘rage against the machine’. In an age where AI is atrophying people’s ability to connect with Nature, and also more deeply with themselves, doing something creative can be a life-line to sanity.