Air Ecru is an imaginary yarn lover’s vehicle for flights of fancy. Our pilot is Captain Noelle, who this month finds color inspiration in places where light and water combine in heartfelt ways. Every seat is first class on Air Ecru, and we invite you to take off in a fully reclined position. Knitting needles [...]
Air Ecru’s intrepid pilot and tour guide, Noelle, this month takes us on a voyage that begins underground and ends underwater. Buckle up! At Artfibers we start each week with design. The subject at hand was Brioche, a complex thick/thin stretch yarn requiring double dyeing in opposite chemistries. Noelle had visited an Egyptian antiquities exhibit [...]
April — month of Arbor Day, Earth Day, green grass growing! For fiber inspiration we offer a few thoughts from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman: I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars ——————————- A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full [...]
