Received from Kim, shipbuilding in Australia, May the 21.
shipbuilding is such an amazing blog, and the owner Kim have just sended me this letter. I have been following shipbuilding for a while now and I always go in there, hoping Kim have made a new blogpost. Her photos, weavings, words, everything is so beautiful and I'm so happy we have started to exchange letters.
The letter from Kim, each piece is wrapped inside some handpaper paper. It was fantastic to cut off a little string and open.
The letter were written on a doily in paper. So pretty!
Weaving sample in twill in very fine silk and cotton.
Pretty transperant leafes like the Gauze weavings.
Beads!
Kim's card and some of her favorite yarns and colors. Pretty!
A little origami bird in gold and white paper.
Small strings from each little package.
Dear Kim, thank you so much for your lovely package. Your twill sample will soon be hanging in my studio.
Received from Elisabeth in USA, May the 21.
My second letter from Elisabeth arrived yesterday. I think it's wonderful to be able to keep on writing with people and to get to know them a little bit better. My first letter from Elisabeth can be seen here.
Elisabeth weaves the most fantastic deflected double weave textiles, also known as cell weaves and I have fallen in love with them a long time ago. This time she send some of her samples to me. I feel so lucky.
Pretty, pretty, pretty!!!
This one is my favorite, as the colors interact in such a beautiful way. Also I think there is a very good contrast in the thick soft wool together with the more fine and shiny cotton.
Elisabeth were so sweet to send me some drafts too of the weaving technique.
Dear Elisabeth, thank you so much for this amazing letter. This time I'm going to make a little book and put your samples in it, so I can take it with me everywhere.
Received from Céline -Bohème Circus in France, May the 18.
I have got such a lovely letter from Céline who writes the stunning blog Bohème Circus. I invited Céline to take part of my textile letters and I'm so happy for her letter. Mine to her can been seen here.
Céline is in love with paper and her dream is to open an online shop. She likes the magic of the paper, because it's a material convertible and so rich in possibilities. It's the medium to exchange mail and it can be the basic material to create sculptures.
The letter from Céline.
An association between paper and fabric; sewing in the paper.
The stitches is so fine and the coral colored buttons is so sweet and nice.
Zig zag paper. It remeinds me of twill, the second basic weaving technique.
Print on a paper.
Fabric and a mother of pearl button on paper.
The paper to the right have the most beautiful 3-d effect. Almost like a textile. And to the left a tiny little envelope.
Inside the tiny little envelope were these yellow leafes and the stickers in cobber.
The letter from Céline written on transperant paper. So beautiful!
Dear Céline, thank you so much for your pretty and lovely letter. I have putted the zig zag paper on my wall in my studio and the coral buttons.
Received from Susan Johnson -Avalance Looms in Usa, May the 11.
I am in love with my new textile letter from Susan. It's so amazing, colorful and pretty. Love it!
Susan taught herself to weave in 1981 when she had her first daugther Ursula. She and her husband built a new weaving workshop and farm store in 2000, on their farm in Avalanche, Wisconsin. It's built on the site of the old barn foundation, in the former goose lot. The style of the building is a traditional Swedish plan, red and white. Please visit her page here. It's my dream to live in a house like that one day.
If you want to purchase some of Susan's weavings you can do it through her etsy shop Avalanche Looms.
Susan is in love with the rag weaving, it preocupies her. She likes the mystery of not knowing who have made the ragrugs and collect old ones. I have one from Morocco, you can see it here.
My dream letter from Susan.
Susan writes to me that textile letters reminds her of when she was a little girl and ordered an envelope of sewing trims from an address in the back of her mothers Vogue Patterns magazine. Inside the envelope were pieces of ribbon, ric-rac, seam bindings ect.
A little kasuri sample in silk with cute washi tape on.
Inside a beautiful woven sample in the most stunning Spring colors.
I usually weave in black-grey-white and have recently started to make embroidery again, this in more colorful colors. I have always been afraid to weave colorful, but now I have deceided to start, as I can see how the colors interact with each other in such a beautiful way, because of this sample. Thank you!
The ribbon from Laura Foster is amazing. Using your leftovers from either weaving or printing in this way, is a fantastic idea.
Pretty structures and colors in a rag.
In her farmstore at Avalanche Looms, Susan sells books, toys, housewares and textiles. She is crazy in love with Scandinavian design and designers. Earlier she has been selling textiles from Maharem which is part of the Kvadrat group, where I am a free-lance textile designer. My work from Kvadrat can be seen here.
A nice little ribbon.
Two cards from Susan and Avalanche Looms.
Susan ends her letter with: One good husband, 3 lovely children, a charmed life. I hope I will be able to say the same one day.
Dear Susan, your letter and your words means everything to me. So many of your treasury is going to be hanging in my studio.
