Posts Tagged ‘sampler’

June 1st, 2010
Golden Fleece — an epic yarn
by
nyle

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 1st, 2010
“Leaves of Grass” Sampler
by
nyle

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 [...]