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…
Author: Marieke
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…
Weaving for Totem poles
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 May 2020 in Leiden. Hmmm, it…