Last Fall I signed up for Kennita Tully’s Elements in Tapestry course. I learned so much! I learned lots about sumack, twining, and supplemental warps that I incorporated into some pieces - Ghost Birch heavily employs sumack. I also have been following a self imposed challenge to learn more about wedge weave, and push it in ways that express what I’m after. Birch Logs (pictured in previous post)is an example of this.

At Christmas I received a gift of Sylivia Heyden’s The Making of Modern Tapestry. I admire her work for the sense of movement of color across dynamic spaces. While I don’t want to “weave like Sylivia” (I still want to weave like me - whatever that turns out to mean), I do want to study how she came to her style of weaving. This Winter/Spring I have set out to really study her book. I am doing small sample tapestries of each of her elements, as presented in the book. The first element is the Triangle. The second part of my quest is to document in some way my lake. Maybe to document how the lake makes me feel. The way I see my lake is a little different, and I hope that comes through.

I just finished my first small tapestry in this series. I think I’ll call it Ice Triangles.