Here’s my first finished piece from “that” warp mentioned in the last two posts. LINK + LINK It was accepted in an important show at the O’Hanlon Gallery in Mill Valley, California. LINK The juror was Carole Beadle, a well-known teacher of fiber art. (I didn’t have time to fix the straying wefts as I would normally have done.)
However, before I submitted the work, it fell down when I was working on the hanging device. With the threads off tension this is what I faced!
I spent hours and days straightening and pulling out each and every kink with a straight pin! Talk about patience: I didn’t have the luxury to be impatient; It became meditative handwork.
I needed to bring this one home from the studio to prepare a proper hanging device. (This photo was in my previous post.)
Again, my piece became snarled and I’ve been working out the kinks a few hours at a time for days. Now, it’s ready to hang—I surely will be carefully keeping it on tension as much as possible while lifting it to hang it on the wall!
Extreme patience! Worth it, it is beautiful and sort of mysterious.
I can’t tell you how relieved I was to re-read this and see that it says “it fell down”, not “I fell down”, as I had first read it. And that changes your entire story into something relatively light hearted! But sloooow. I’m glad slow is the main problem!
And good for you, figuring out how to use something so fine and squirrelly. You are tenacious.
I actually like the “snarled” warp!