[Nfb-krafters-korner] beads and stuff Linda

[River Woman]

Hi Joyce,
So neat to hear your story of how you started weaving. I began weaving in 
undergraduate school. I was a painting major, but I kept taking weaving 
classes so in the end my BFA show was both Paintings and Tapestries. I weave 
like I paint. My weavings always began with a painting first, then I 
translated that painting into a cartoon which I used to put the forms on the 
warp. So I was not a traditional weaver in the sense of working from graphs 
or charts and planning every detail first (pattern weaving). My weavings 
developed during the entire process, with each stage of the process changing 
from the one that came before it. Post Modern weavings, I would say, not at 
all traditional.

I would not rule out weaving again some day, but never the scale I did 
before, and no more on the floor loom. If I would weave again, it would 
probably be bead weaving on a small loom, and I would probably create woven, 
beaded, paintings.

For now, just to be able to do beading again without help from others would 
be the best thing ever. So, too, with pottery. I am working on it!

I enjoyed hearing about your travels very much. I have always loved to 
travel and for me, being lost is always FUN when I am traveling.Lynda
Lynda Lambert
River Road Studio, Since 1976
www.lyndalambert.com
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From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
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Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] beads and stuff Linda


> Linda,
> As you build your confidence and expand out in these areas and test drive
> the exploeration of how tos and I can do it, you may want to dabble  in
> those old time loves of creativity.
>
> When I went to India 5 years ago, I had the chance to visit a place where
> the blind had these large floor looms and ran them without sighted help.
> Some of them sat on the floor with their Charka's all weaving and spinning
> cotton to create coasters, napkins, placemats and things like that.  These
> people could not get jobs in the normal industry because they were blind,
> So some how some where they came up with the weaving equipment to do it
> themselves.  Of course the money that was made by their work was next to
> nothing, but they were happy working.
>
> That is where my interest started in weaving.  I went to a place in  India
> where all the charkas and kits were made up by hand to provide to the
> schools and they were out of charkas, but promised to make me 2 of them 
> over the
> following 3 days.  One of the diplomats  that were traveling with me  in
> that area promised to get the charkas to me in Moomba where I was flying 
> out
> to that evening.  I did get them and let me tell you the price I paid, the
> 2 wooden Charkas and the 3 pounds of cotton I bought for spinning was in 
> USA
> money $22.  I have read of the briefcase Charka [that is the one I got] on
> EBay runs between $150 to $200.  They also have smaller ones the size of a
> book.
>
> All of that  is kinda what got me interested in weaving, but I went  down
> the road of triangle weaving.
>
> Joyce
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