Slow: a fibre artist’s notebook.
I’m Kristy. I came back to weaving a couple of years ago after losing connection to this part of myself. Sitting back at the loom felt like coming home. This is where I write about what making slowly has taught me — and what it keeps teaching me.
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Reminder to Self: Create
I don’t know why I keep learning this lesson the hard way, so I’m writing this out as a gentle reminder to my future self. When you come home from work exhausted,Create something. When you have nothing left in your tank and just want to sit on the couch and have a glass of wine…
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Making a Case for Old Looms
Looms count as old “technology” that people have reinvented and reimagined, but at their core, they have changed very little over a very long time. A basic loom (not even talking about tapestry looms here — those are simpler still) still uses the same essential parts it did hundreds of years ago. New manufacturing techniques…
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Make the Mistake
Have you ever started a project and given up on it? In weaving, there are so many different places this can happen. You’re winding your warp and threads get tangled or you don’t like the colours. You get it on the loom and have wound the warp on backwards or messed up your heddles. You…
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More than a scarf
What’s the first thing you wove on a loom? I’m going to guess for many it is a scarf. I feel like for new weavers and seasoned ones too… it can sometimes be really difficult to figure out what to make out of the material we weave. This is especially true if you are using…
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A Slow Reset
I first started Joy Fibre Art almost ten years ago. I fell in love with weaving after taking a class at a local studio and decided to enter a holiday craft show/sale for the first time and was asked to provide an artist statement and branding for my work. If you have ever experienced this…
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