Das Fiber Life Festival fand Ende März auf der ikonischen Tianmu Plaza in 杭州 statt. Das Festival drehte sich um FIBER. Also ganz klassisch um Wolle, Garne, Stoffe, Spinnen, Weben ... aber auch um Themen wie Recycling, Kunst und Life-Balance.

Doch auch um Textilien als Metapher für das Miteinander-Verwoben-Sein und eine Gemeinschaft von Gleichgesinnten.

https://youtu.be/jGnGli4B1Bc

Bard College: Textile Artist Mae Colburn ’10 Talks with Vogue About Archiving her Grandmother’s Vintage Skirt Collection. “[Mae] Colburn’s mother is a clothing historian and her dad is a photographer so the project spoke to their collective skills. Together the family has catalogued and photographed 632 vintage wool skirts. The physical archive is in Colburn’s Brooklyn studio—which is […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/02/bard-college-textile-artist-mae-colburn-10-talks-with-vogue-about-archiving-her-grandmothers-vintage-skirt-collection/

So you've been turned into a sheep-thing and people expect you to act all cutesy all the time? You'll show them just how foul-mouthed you can be! At least ever since you evolved you can actually stand on your two legs now.

For Goldkin

My cat-dragon Maalamin playing with #wool - because it's a thing cats should do, right?

(not to confuse with my old drawings with ball of wool as a symbol itself, even if wool on those pictures had similar colour... it is not related, unless some mystic force of fate was guiding my subconsciousness )

Maalamin's element is lightning, not fire... of course, cat's element should be static electricity (here paste that legend about Nikola Tesla as a kid, inspired by static charges on cat's fur) and it is both #dragon and #cat. Well, big cat. I imagine it about pony size, or slightly bigger (at least longer).

This time with wings hidden/disappeared because doing cat things with fairy-style wings could be inconvenient. Maalamin could hide or expose them if needed.

Finished this wrap a while ago but haven't been in a posting mood 'til now. This is 36 ends per inch in wool. The final length was a bit shy of two yards. I gave it to a friend who's helped me though some really difficult times recently, and it felt so good to give her a physical manifestation of my time, care, and attention.

I'm excited about weaving more fine fabric like this. Right now I'm setting up something thicker but still pretty fine, an Angora nylon blend at 24 epi. #textiles #weaver #weaving #fiberarts #wool #plainweave #loom

Been curious how a nalbound bag would go, and a few weeks ago I was gifted the perfect yarn to play with. Turned out great, I think! The shoulder strap and white stripes are… appliqué? Made post-facto but attached as they were made.
Don’t know all the vocab- Finnish 2+2. Most connections were F1. Connection loops for the stripes/strap were picked up after the +2 of the stitch but before the stitch was finished. #HandMade #FiberArts #StringCraft #Nalbinding #Wool #Mastoart

Plied. Equinox is a good day to clear the wheel for something else.

#Combing #GulfCoast #Wool #CombedTop #Roving #FiberArts

https://youtu.be/2oTOPdAuN5k

#AnimalMarch 20 Gottesanbeterin/Praying Mantis

A giant (and helpful) praying mantis

Next stage completed. Top pattern cut out in old blue sheet with freeform crochet suns laid on top in oranges, reds and yellows. The rest will be filled with lacy freeform shapes shading gradually from almost black to sunset lilacs and peaches to a black silhouette landscape at the bottom.

"Despite receiving video evidence from PETA of workers violently beating, stomping on, and throwing sheep, leaving sheep with gaping wounds that were stitched up without painkillers, and even slitting a sheep’s throat while they were still conscious—all while claiming to uphold “ethical” practices—these companies have refused to ban wool.

The same kinds of abuse have been found at over 150 wool operations in seven countries on four continents. The industry has done nothing to prevent this abuse in any country, and the auditors they rely on have failed miserably to protect sheep. It’s been up to PETA to show a pattern of abuse time and time again."—People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Sheep Slaughtered, Discarded Like Trash—Call On These Companies to Stop Selling Wool >

https://support.peta.org/page/79176/action/1

Ready for plying.