Sometimes things don’t go as planned… You have a pattern, you’ve chosen your colors, and you’ve threaded your 60 tablets. In your pattern section, there’s a light color, and you’ve designed a…
Author: Marieke
A Child in A Cradle
About a year ago I wrote about Woven Poem, a project by Marieke Gelissen. The question was if I could weave 24 lines of a poem to complete her woven basket. That…
A new collaboration!
In October last year I met Paulien Hopmans from Studio Hop at the Textiel Plus Festival. She showed some fantastic leather bags and organises workshops in making them. Since learning how to…
Christmas all year round
For years I had been a member of pop choir Voicemail in Voorschoten. I especially liked to sing all the Christmas carols. My absolute favorite was “In a cold Night”, closely followed…
Let it snow!
The regular workshops I give at the “Weefcollectief Fryslân” mean that I can frequently stay in hotel Lunia. When I’m not teaching, I settle into the hotel lounge with my inkle loom…
A publication in Little Looms!
For the magazine WEVEN of Weefnetwerk I interviewed Barbara Goudsmit, who was well known for her publications in Easy Weaving with Little Looms. Because I wanted to use a photo from that…
Braids 2022 in one band
A day after the Braids conference 2022 in Svendborg, Denmark, I am typing this blog fairly exhausted, but full of new knowledge and inspiration. What a great week!!! A meeting with many…
A new tutorial: the crossed warp technique
In the summer of 2017, I was able to purchase all editions of the Dutch Crafts Magazine “Hand-werken Zonder Grenzen”. In one of the editions, the crossed warp technique for a backstrap…
Woven poem
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…
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!…