How astonished I was to get Ted Hallman's call and request to come and visit me at the Toronto Weaving School. It all happened at the last minute with little time to organize anything more formal or a more substantial welcome. The students had no idea that there would be any change of plan. All were pleasantly charmed and enthralled by Ted as he talked about his work over his lifetime, showed us his catalogues and his video of the latest installation and exhibition. His latest installation you can see here on this YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrNgXsqQtUE. To read more about this visit go to the Tapestry link at the bottom of the page.
Synonyms for surprise are astonish, astound, amaze, flabbergast...the positive side of surprise. How delighted we are when in our weaving projects, things work out better than we thought, people praise what we've woven, purchased our woven product or that the dressing of the loom went smoothly without any glitches or threading mistakes.
Rep weave rug by Jane Tucker. Cotton and mop cotton.
Checkered Scarf by Andrew Winter in a beautifully soft and very fine lace weight merino yarn.
Weaving Links, Resources and News
Tapestry at the Toronto Weaving School http://tapestryline.blogspot.ca/2014/05/ted-hallman.html
Laura de Vrij sends this link about a Fibre Festival in the Ottawa area http://www.festivaltwist.org/en/
Susan Abrams reminds us that the Textile Museum of Canada is having it's annual garage sale next weekend
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