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Weaving tapestry in Taos; time at Mabel Dodge Luhan House

Weaving tapestry in Taos; time at Mabel Dodge Luhan House

I’ve spent the last week weaving with a fantastic group of people at my retreat in Taos, New Mexico. I love teaching in my home state and I especially love spending time at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos.

Lest you think this is some high end hotel, let me tell you a bit about the place. My Taos retreats are held in the former home of Mabel Dodge Luhan, a renowned author, artist, and socialite, who spent the last decades of her life gathering people around her in this house far from her roots in Buffalo, New York. Though some of Mabel’s actions can be seen as problematic today, it is undeniable that she did manage to get many artists to come and spend time in Taos. They created works of art that made Taos into the artistic center it now is.

I love spending a week in the house, eating in Mabel’s dining room, watching the fire in her living room, and sleeping tucked snugly into small adobe rooms….

The Icelandic Windows Tapestry

The Icelandic Windows Tapestry

While teaching in Taos in November I finally finished the Icelandic Windows tapestry. Since I am back in Taos teaching another retreat, I thought it was time to post something about it!

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What are you most attracted to when it comes to design inspiration? Is it color that grabs you first? A shape? The way something in the scene is repeating? Figuring that out can help you simplify your designs until they are perfect for tapestry weaving.

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The Tapestry Discovery Box

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The Tapestry Discovery Box

I’ve been working on a fun project in collaboration with Gist Yarn. And this week, it is ready for the world. The Tapestry Discovery Box has launched and I’d love to share it with all of you. If you’ve ever wished for an ongoing community of tapestry weavers to talk about and troubleshoot technique and design problems with, this subscription course might be exactly the thing for you.

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Learning design skills and having fun in the process

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Learning design skills and having fun in the process

Have you reached that point in tapestry weaving where you feel you have a decent or even excellent grasp of technical issues but you are unsure how to design your own images? This happens to almost all of us, so you’re not alone. Designing is simply a skill and it can be learned.

There is a lot of pressure in the art world. How many messages do we get telling us that you have to be born with some sort of special talent or that you have to go to art school to make “good” art? Those messages are everywhere in our culture and it is easy to let those messages keep you from creating.

The truth is that designing for tapestry or any art medium is simply a skill and that skill can be learned.