true inspiration

It seems, from what I can tell, that there are commenters and lurkers out there who have blogs and are sneaky about them hide them under a bushel.

Case in point is Ellen. She's been commenting on my blog for a while, I knew from her email address that she was a weaver, and we've "talked" a bit over the last year or so, although we never managed to get together for a badly planned meet-up at MDSW.

The other day when I posted about Peruvian weaving, she casually mentioned that she was taking a three day backstrap weaving workshop with someone from Peru. We'll just skip the part where smoke came out of my ears and I turned green with envy and all of that.

To cut to the quick, Ellen did a fabulous picture heavy post on her somewhat hidden blog (her work is also amazing, so you should go look) about Alex Gallardo (the weaver), backstrap weaving, and his amazing work. You can see it here. Go look, please, its more than I'll ever be able to share. 

I'm out of comission until after the weekend. I've got a Monday deadline, and a husband who has decided to run a high fever with chills. If you need more weaving you can go see Sigga Sif's newest obsession, tablet weaving. I would be jealous but I attribute her steep learning curve to her scientific mind.

In the meantime, I'm watching the sky for falling looms.

Comments

[Laurie]

Think Lyme disease for summer fever/chills with OR without a rash.

[Kathy]

I am still getting my head around the fact that Alex's family spins all of the wool for their weaving. Thanks for the link.

[Jan]

When I was involved with the textile group at the Cleveland Museum of Art, some of my favorite time was spent in the Pre-Columbian area. I could look at those textiles for hours. Have you visited the Met or other specialty museums in the city to view indigenous weaving yet? I'll bet there's a treasure trove of inspiration there.

[heather]

you ARE the freakin enabler. have already read ellen's post twice and i can't get my head around how amazing it is. i think it's time for a second cup of coffee and another read-through.

[cathy]

Arghhhh.... I can't believe Ellen's hidden her blog this long! Thanks for ratting her out!

[regina]

i'm sorry jon's not feeling well. i hope he recovers quickly and you meet your deadline without much headache.

[trek]

Hope husband feels better soon!

[Chriss]

How incredible is it that they spin the yarn on drop spindles! Talk about labour intensive. Beautiful work! and thanks to Ellen for the work done on the post.

[denny Mcmillan]

Like I have said to other bloggers, I am also "delurkng".I just had to comment because.... I KNOW. I know about the loom thing.I wove years ago, took textiles at collage.Years later when the kids where bigger, and I had room, I put the word out "I'm ready to weave again" O.K. not one, not two, three looms. Three full size floor looms where gifted to me. Some are on loan. two are keepers.I now have a 45inch jack loom, 35 in counter balance, and a 45in countermarch swedish loom. The studio is full,some are in storage one I use. But not often .Must. Weave. More. Look up ,waaaaaaay up. Whats that a bird,a SNAKE ONA PLANE, a loom. It's a loom,look out.Duck. Move the stash, you'll need room. Room for a loom.And the best thing is weaving EATS the stash, oh yeah eats the stash. Did you know you will be in good company, soon Harlot is going to get a loom too. MMMM linen weaving...you know you want to. P.S. I start rummers too.Weaving rummers. I am evil.In my former life,I must of been a native New Yorker.Also to catch the most awsome weaveing vibe, the Unicorn Tapestrys are at the closters,in New York. You can almost breath in the "so this is what I'm ment to do " vibes right there. Go ,go now ,but please be careful of the falling looms.

SNAKESONALOOM TO YA luv dennyx0x0x0x0

[Martha]

Holy crap. I didn't know you could do stuff like that with weaving.

[Rachel H]

I cannot even begin to tell you how strange it is to be following Denny around blogland today...

I clicked on the link to Ellen's site. I now have a very strong urge to go to the Textile Museum here in Toronto.

[Cassa]

Would you believe me if I told you that last night I had a dream that I found an inkle loom while I was walking around town? All this talk about weaving...::grumble grumble grumble::

[Trish B.]

You're not gonna believe this...I was giving a local author a quick intro to fiber/spinning/shepherding/etc and she said...oh, you weave...my mom has a loom she wants to give away. Waiting to find out what it is. Current loom is an 'expensive pile of kindling' (DH's words) waiting to be refinished and reassembled. I have a floor inkle loom/warping board and a mini inkle loom. I want to make a little bag like Sara Lamb's. Maybe it is raining looms in NY!

[denny Mcmillan]

See, I told ya. Denny. P. S. I don't know Trish B. and did not tell her to write in.

[Emilio Laynes]

I belive that the "weaver" must Not a Master" Alex Gallardo" is not weave, he just only know the theory of weaving. He take benefictsfrom other Mater real weaver s in Ayacucho.
Sorry to disapointed all the poeple.