Sometimes beautiful things come your way. Such as a totally unexpected email from Marieke Gelissen, a visual artist from Amsterdam. For a project she wanted to combine a basket woven from wicker with…
Author: Marieke
A week at the Maastricht Institute of Arts
Mid-January Willemien Ippel of Crafts Council Nederland texted “Do you have time to teach at the Maastricht Art Institute for 3 days in April?” Art Institute? Me? A bit overwhelmed and after…
In relationship therapy with a rigid heddle
A long time ago I was called by Anneke Kersten if I wanted to be a teacher during Weaving International: a four-day weaving course for weavers from the Netherlands and Belgium. Each…
One year of dailies!
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 done it!…
The Fred Mushkat collection
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. Getting a present…
How to cope with climate change?
Just like many other people I’m seriously concerned about the climate change: temperature reaches record highs, forest fires, floods, dryness… The most scary thing is; you really see it happening and there…
The Joop-group offline!
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 active one. To identify which group I…
Design dilemma
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 broken twill…
Daily band, daily thoughts
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 away in a basket. I still enjoy…
The Snartemo approach of twill
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 and more complicated tablet weaving techniques. In 2018 Teatske…
The first 9 days
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 at least…
Challenge accepted!
Yesterday I saw Jennifer Williams’s post on the Facebook group Inkle Weaving about her challenge “Dailybandpractice“. Her motivation is that weaving is very important to her, but she can never find time…