I have started making fabric headbands and clip fabric flowers for your hair. I am having fun sewing these batik fabrics, the colors and patterns are very “Hippie”! Each headband has a strip of elastic to give it some stretch and range of sizing. The fabric flowers can be worn on the headbands or alone. [...]

Webster defines a loom as “a frame or machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, the operation being performed by laying lengthwise a series called the warp and weaving in across this other threads called the weft, woof, or filling.” Another definition, which is more  to the point: “A loom is the framework [...]

Just to try something different, I started working on a painting using Dr. Ph. Martin’s Bombay India inks.  I love the bright vibrant colors available in those little bottles! I decided to do some fantasy horses, something just for fun and “Crazy Horse” evolved. I did not dilute the ink when painting, just used it [...]

Today, most of our textile needs are supplied by commercially woven cloth. A large and complex cloth making industry uses automated machines to produce these textiles. Then you have us, a handful of artisans making cloth on hand looms, in home studios or small weaving businesses, who weave to be weaving, making wonderful pieces of [...]

Currently both the work of Sharen Chatterton and Karen Rester is on display at the Lancaster Theater (front Gallery), in Grapevine, Texas. The paintings will be there through June. If you are in the area, stop by and take a look. Share and Enjoy: