Hi Peter,
Well I might have predicted that you didn't start out with the simple stuff...!
I find it most interesting to learn about what aspect first drew us to this particular medium (as well as to speculating on its origins--how the heck did somebody come up with it??). These are good questions to throw out to the list.
For myself it was watching it in action, around 1970, and it was that tantalizing warp twined structure! I guess you could say I've never quite recovered, and still maintain it's the vast range of possibilities that continue to captivate the keen minds of young people today. By the way, if I were marooned on a desert island, I would beg to take along Atwater's book, along with TTW and The Makers Hand...!
Patty Townsend
peter collingwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
peter collingwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My first TW? I looked at my Lettered warps and A is a sample with a
mixture of warp-twining and double-faced weave, done in one colour to
make texture pattern.
I cannot swear this is the first piece, but I do remember that what got
me interested was reading about the double-faced weave in Mary Atwater's
'Byways of Hand weaving'. And Warp C is definitely my first trial of
that. This so intrigued me that I enthusiastically tried to teach
Elizabeth how to do it... But starting with this complexity completely
put her off... for life!
