Friday, May 7, 2010

Kudzu is off the loom!

Ok, so that cutting off of the infamous kudzu tapestry happened earlier in the week... but I try to keep my ducks in a row, so to speak.  I hadn't posted about my last days at the Anne Wilson exhibit at the Knoxville Art Museum so had to do that before I noted that I'd finished the kudzu tapestry and cut it off earlier this week.



I'm in Asheville, North Carolina, right now at a four day demonstration of tapestry in the lobby of the Southern Highland Craft Guild's Folk Art Center--the Guild's annual celebration of all fiber crafts is this weekend--the Fiber Days on Saturday and Sunday.  Lots of demonstrators in the auditorium of the FAC on Saturday, then a fantastic fashion show of all fiber works on Sunday--two times for the fashion show (same fashions), one at 1 p.m. and the other at 3 p.m.

I have the kudzu tapestry with me here to snip ends at times when I'm not working on the current tapestry during the demo.  Here's a photo I made of it after it was off the loom... lots of ends yet to be finished here:




7 comments:

  1. Oh wow, another addition to the "wild things" family of tapestries! I realized, from the photo of your current show, how beautifully these tapestries go together, and I'd love to see them all in one place, with Kudzu as part of the gang.

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  2. Thanks, Jan...
    yes, my work is of a piece... all nature related.
    Kudzu is the most current of them all.

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  3. and it looks magnificent too, the wild kudzu vine is free at last...k.

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  4. Congratulations! It's so fun to cut stuff off the loom!

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  5. oh WOW is right. It is amazing. It was fun watching it bit by bit, and seeing the whole thing is awesome. Wish I could get to Ashville. Have a great weekend

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  6. It's so wonderful! Only you could make Kudzu so appealling!

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