Harris - December 2021

DAY 1 - December 13th

Light breeze, December sun, long shadows

Bleabhal

Harris wool

Quidinish

Russet, peaty brown

Transparency

Seaweed brown and electric blue

Outlines

Handwoven fabric

Upside down hill

Breeze

Lichen, rocks and lochans

Fabric landscape

Captured

Anchored down

Lunar

Peat and heather stems

Colour matching

Mimic

DAY 2 - December 14th

Wet, windy and grey

Bleabhal vanished

Wet, battered cloth

DAY 3 - 17th December

Overcast, breezy

Scarista beach

 

Wrinkled fabric after the storm

Rolling and twisting

Soaked in Atlantic water

Rippled

Chapaval

 

Weaving 2021

 Lockdown 3 due to the covid 19 pandemic gave me space to learn weaving. I acquired 2 table top looms, bought books and wool, checked out Online tutorials and asked weaver friends and relatives for advice. Six months on, I am immersing myself in all things weaving when I have any free time. And when I'm not weaving I see it everywhere.

 Yellow 

Verticals and Diagonals

                                                                       Orange

                                                            Red and yellow warp

Harris wool diagonals

                                                                Spools of Harris wool

    Red and white diagonal tape

                                                  Warning signs

Red and yellow zigzags

Harris wool diagonals

Red, yellow and blue diagonals and verticals

Blue rope

Red stripe

 

Hedge laying

Stripes and zigzags

On the loom

Placement

                          Rubbish with weft and warp marks

Ash tree lines

                                                          Woven cylinders

                            

Distortion

                                            Peat and bone placed on linen woven mat

                                          

Concrete with moss placed on woven mat

Weaving placed on chair frame

Yellow zigzag/chevron

Harris wool chevrons