Our Fiber Guild's summer challenge was to make something inspired by a fiber-related book we have read. When I read Tracy Chevalier's The Lady and the Unicorn about the Unicorn tapestries and the Belgian weavers, I was fascinated by the way these weavers created imagery. Chevalier's other book The Girl with a Pearl Earring included several passages about how Grete's awareness of color was changed by working for the artist Vermeer -- a cloud is not just white, but many colors. Living on our 36 ft sailboat on Lake Champlain for the summer limited my ability to weave to a small lap loom that I bought on eBay for about $25. I used a ruler to make the even shed and loops through the odd threads attached to a dowel made the other shed. A 6 inch metal tapestry needle was my shuttle. I drew a cartoon of the design in colored pencils outlined in black Sharpy which I taped to the back of the loom. It was the perfect project to keep my mind off the gale force winds of Tropical Storm Irene which hit Vermont and upstate New York with its force the afternoon I started my tapestry.
I can't wait to do more next summer!
This is good project
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How neat! I'm new to weaving - but not much of an artist as far as drawing goes - so I'm not sure how I would do with drawing up my own design. But this is neat. And........I'm so envious that you live on a boat - at least in the summer! How cool! What a great life - and to be able to tell the story of your life with your weavings! You are blessed.
Teresa
