One year of dailies!
MariekePosted on December 31, 2021
The last day of the year… A year ago I decided, just like Jennifer Williams, to weave for 15 minutes every day to finish all my UFOs. And I have don
The Fred Mushkat collection
MariekePosted on October 22, 2021
About two years ago, a new book on band weaving was about to appear one day after my birthday: Weavings of Nomads in Iran by Fred Mushkat and others.
How to cope with climate change?
MariekePosted on September 12, 2021
Just like many other people I’m seriously concerned about the climate change: temperature reaches record highs, forest fires, floods, dryness… The m
The Joop-group offline!
MariekePosted on August 8, 2021
In January 2021 I started teaching an online weaving course with 9 participants. Soon two other group followed, but the first groups was the most acti
Design dilemma
MariekePosted on May 9, 2021
Some time ago I received an email with picture of a historical band and the question whether I knew in which technique the band was made. It was a 3/1
Daily band, daily thoughts
MariekePosted on March 27, 2021
I have been working on my Daily band practice for almost three months now. Three months of working on the unfinished projects, which were just put awa
The Snartemo approach of twill
MariekePosted on February 25, 2021
From 2015 to 2018 I joined “Zomervlechtschool” (Summer braiding week), where Marijke van Epen and Teatske Stouten tried to teach us all kind of simple
The first 9 days
MariekePosted on January 10, 2021
Last week, after reading a blog by Jennifer Williams , I decided to to take up the Daily Band Practice . I have to work on an unfinished project for a