a month in textiles and comics

7/7/2020

Oh goody--
back to the blog
after a whirligig of a month.

Except --
this business of typing words--
I think I must be rusty.

Or perhaps there are just so many
thrilling and important and true words
written by people far more eloquent than I--
shining light on our world
with magnificent clarity--

that for today,
I'll let the cloth
and
the comics
(and a few links)
say what I have to say.

Plantation Slave Weavers Remember by Mary Madison

(Listening to Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi
and here with Yo Yo Ma)

Luminist and Storymaker from my guide, Backstrap Dialogues

(Ki/Kin Pronouns from Robin Wall Kimmerer )

And oh yes,
a chemo holiday
is an amazing thing.

Valerie

7/7/2020 01:32:43 pm

Happy to see you back. Inspirational, as always. Thank you for recommending Mary Madison’s book. My copy arrived yesterday. An intense and thought provoking read for sure.

Sarah

7/16/2020 05:41:05 pm

It is indeed. I keep going back and learning more

Mandy Lebides

7/7/2020 01:51:09 pm

So happy you are back.
It's been like a fast without your weekly blog posts.!
So happy you had a great time and look forward to your musings. Thank you for being an important part of my life at such a distance.
My copy of 'The Art of Cloth' is arriving soon!

Lynn Somerstein link

7/7/2020 01:56:27 pm

Welcome home!

June Covington

7/7/2020 01:58:44 pm

Just today, I was wondering how your month off was going.

Juliann

7/7/2020 02:00:12 pm

So glad you and your true love are having a chemo break. Your work makes my curious monkey mind twirl. Happy Summer!

Donna Hudson

7/7/2020 02:22:04 pm

So glad you had a wonderful month away with your husband and so glad to have you back. Every post is an inspiration!
Thank-you!

Jean Gogolin

7/7/2020 02:22:24 pm

I've never seen this before, and love it!

Eileen English Kaarsemaker

7/7/2020 02:25:50 pm

I see you have similar questions - and musical loves as me - Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi - I SO enjoy their music, their stories and their research!

Judy H.

7/7/2020 02:27:23 pm

If your wonderful blogs were made into a book with all your comics, humorous words weaver-ly knowledge and glorious tapestries, that is a book I would buy! I love your work and words and your comics so make me smile! Thank you Sarah for sharing. ❤️ I visit your website often and love revisiting your tapestries.

Elaine Todd

7/7/2020 02:43:01 pm

I was wondering when we would see your blogs again and looked at my emails and there you are back with us. 👏I’m so glad you and Dan had a special time together, that is sweet.
I see your growing your hair, me too lol.
I love that solution for plying using a box, your so clever. So simple and works well
Love your cartoons always.
Thank you for you constant inspiration.
I ordered Jean Pierre’s and Yaden Larochette’s book and looking forward to receiving it.
Weave on..

Jill Leggio

7/7/2020 03:25:10 pm

I simply love how you share you. Thank you.

Pam Hutley

7/7/2020 03:27:47 pm

Welcome back! So good to read your newsletter and the blog again! Also thanks for the links I will be perusing today. I have recently discovered the works of Robin Wall Kimmerer and you have kindly added to my reading list of her works. Glad Dan is feeling better.

Mary Barbera

7/7/2020 03:34:24 pm

If you love Rhiannon Giddons, as I do, have you seen Bela Fleck's Throw Down Your Heart? It is about finding the roots of the banjo in Africa. Inspired a tiny weaving of a grave he visits with a fellow musician.

Terri Bryson

7/7/2020 05:37:08 pm

So glad you are back and creating and most of all, that your husband is getting a chemo holiday!!

Linda murdock

7/7/2020 06:40:18 pm

So happy to see that you are back. Love your blog. Glad to hear hubby is doing better.

Susan m fortune

7/7/2020 09:13:15 pm

What a joy, just woke up it's 0510 wednesday,have really missed these posts,thank you so much,soo

Kerstin N

7/8/2020 02:11:52 am

Dear Sarah, hope you had a good break! Especially the chemo vacation is great news. Love your comics as always, and remembered how much I too love reading + spinning.
Best of wishes to you and your husband / K

Deb Thomas

7/8/2020 06:02:33 am

Welcome back, Sarah. We all missed you, but are glad you were able to take a much-needed holiday with your hubby. The comics you included here resonate with me very much. I've had the same thoughts and worries, and have lain awake thinking about them far too much. Your photos are always inspiring, and encourage me to keep going with the things I sometimes think are irrelevant, unimportant, a waste of time. Thank you for reminding me they are not. Also, thank you for introducing me to Rhiannon Giddons, she's wonderful!

Continue taking care of yourself and Dan, and keep creating!

Evelyn Von Michalofski

7/8/2020 07:00:06 am

You make me cry. In a good way.

Emilia

7/8/2020 09:25:31 am

I'm so glad you're back! We've missed you. Thank you for all the inspiration and for keeping it real. Emilia

Virginia Perks

7/8/2020 09:41:53 am

I am glad you are back as well, lots have happened in your life it seems as well as mine, i did make your lovely slightly slanted sweater and i bought some home dyed wool from another woman who's blog i read as well~ :) i love my sweater and so glad i finally made one, gonna have to do another one with hemp i think! :) Thank you and healing and love sending your way!

Sarah

7/16/2020 05:40:08 pm

Hemp is amazing. What a great idea. So happy to hear this.

Deb Thomas

7/8/2020 09:58:06 am

Virginia reminded me, I, too, knitted a slightly slanted sweater -- for my brand new granddaughter. I was in a hurry to get it to her, so forgot to take a photo, but I think it will do the trick. Now I'm going to start one in silk for myself ....

Sarah

7/16/2020 05:39:31 pm

That sounds utterly delicious. So happy with the possibilities of that pattern—and a bit addicted to it myself!

Sylvia

7/8/2020 01:47:27 pm

Thanks to Laura Salamy I was introduced to your blog. Inspiring and fun. Happy you and your husband had a chemo vacation. Important. Thank you and keep well to you both.

Pamela link

7/8/2020 06:49:16 pm

Thank you for your writing, your drawings, your weavings ... all that you are contributing here. I so enjoy receiving your news. Take care.

Kantu

7/9/2020 08:34:55 am

It’s always a delight to read your posts. You are an inspiration to so many of us going through at least one of the issues you speak about. Thank you for being you. Best wishes for your husband’s good health.

Heather Bungard-Janney link

7/9/2020 04:05:22 pm

Your work is beautiful, and I loved your loom in Kids Weaving so much! It thrills me to know that you use the same loom in all your amazing projects. I wanted less to weave beautifully and more to understand how all this stuff worked, so after I built your loom for the first time, I ended up modifying it by adding extra heddle rods, so I could 2/1 weave twill and the many patterns possible on a three shaft loom. And then I was having such a hard time with continuous warp and getting the tension to stay even, plus I wanted to try longer warps, that I modified it again to a kind of upside down warp weighted loom! I called it the Frankenloom. :D :D :D None of what I did would have been possible without you showing the way. Thank you so much.

Sarah

7/16/2020 05:38:06 pm

Oh what fun to play with your pvc loom. They are sooo amazingly versatile—and inexpensive enough for wild (and constantly changing and reversible), experiments. Oddly, I think the pvc, plastic though it is, even has a significantly lower carbon footprint than copper or steel. A surprising plus!

Gloria Ross

7/11/2020 10:03:57 am

Thank you. Missed you.

Glee Hubbard

7/16/2020 01:02:11 pm

Introduced to your page by my good friend Ingrid Strong, Sequim, WA. whose weaving I so admire. Found your comments, drawings, photos delightful. Thanks so much.

Sarah

7/16/2020 05:30:02 pm

Thank you so much!

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Sarah C Swett
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hand spun yarn.