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Just like many other people I’m seriously concerned about the climate change: temperature reaches record highs, forest fires, floods, dryness… The m

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

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

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

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

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

Yesterday I saw Jennifer Williams’s post on the Facebook group Inkle Weaving about her challenge “Dailybandpractice”. Her motivation is that weaving i

In the Dutch magazine “Weven” I read an article about “Weaving for totem poles”, an artist project by Clara van den Bosch at the Textielfestival in Ma