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I taught two retreats in Taos in close succession this fall. It is always good to be in Taos and the retreat I have in November is a group that comes back every year. I’m always so grateful for this group of weavers that have become friends over the years. It is important to find friends who are tapestry weavers if you can whether that be online or people you can actually meet in person.
Getting to Taos in the winter is usually fairly easy, and this day was no exception. Going home there was a snowstorm and I didn’t get to enjoy this view looking toward Chama from Highway 64.
Once a year I have a sale on all* my online classes. This sale starts today. Because so many of you live in other countries in different time zones, you’ll find that the codes below are good through Friday, December 5th. If you have been wanting an online class or two or three, this is the week to purchase those.
I’m off to Taos to teach another retreat soon. I know, I know, I just came back from teaching in Taos. The spinning for tapestry retreat with Jillian Moreno was an added workshop this year because the venue had an opening in October. So though I just made that trek two weeks ago, I’m off for another round.
This retreat is an alumni retreat about design. It is one full of people that come back every year and it has become a wonderful place to share our triumphs or struggles over the year with tapestry and life.
I have been weaving on the Schacht Arras tapestry loom for several years now. They have released a stand and treadle assembly for the loom which I have been using for most of a year now and I really love it.
The treadles don’t work without the stand so you do have to purchase both the stand and the treadle assembly to make the whole thing work. The treadles are manual meaning that they work with a pulley system and don’t need to be plugged in. They glide easily and are very quiet.
I have been unable to get to any tapestry shows in the last few years for various reasons. But I am an avid collector of catalogs because I find it a great source of inspiration for my own work and I love to see what other people are doing in tapestry. The catalogs below are recent acquisitions.
Catalogs are definitely not the perfect representation of a piece of art, but I find them very useful for getting ideas, celebrating artists I do know, and learning about artists I didn’t know about. I have quite a collection and I find that when I’m stuck for ideas for whatever reason, going back through old catalogs is really helpful!
I hope this brief review of these catalogs is inspiring enough for you to get your own copy and perhaps start your own catalog collection!
