I look forward to teaching a workshop in Frida Hansen’s transparent tapestry for the Boston Weavers Guild next week. Today I’m adding a new small piece to the sample stack going into my suitcase. I wanted to experiment with weaving an outline, in using open threads to represent the image. While looking through old issues of the Norwegian Urd magazine online, I liked the graphic of a swan, and made a screenshot. I didn’t note the date! It was probably the 1920s.
I warped my copper pipe travel loom, and began with undulating waves.
It was more about the testing the swan figure than making a complicated image, so I switched out the background to my favorite – dots!
I will have much to discuss with my students about this experiment (colors, yarn, technique, finishing…).
