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textals: December 2015
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Textiles by Tal Landeau.musings on my fiber world. Monday, December 14, 2015. Knitting, to be continued. Some years ago, on a visit to Baltimore, my sister Kwan very generously told me about and came with me to her local yarn store, A Good Yarn. That day, I chose two skeins of sock yarn, Trekking and Step. As we walked out to the car, Kwan exclaimed, “ that. Expensive and you still have to knit them! 8221; My first thought was to tell her that the Step had the restorative aloe vera and jojoba in the yarn.
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textals: August 2013
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Textiles by Tal Landeau.musings on my fiber world. Sunday, August 11, 2013. Paris Journal: Flax in the city. For the French linen industry, complete with a field of flax! According to the literature, "seventy percent of the world's linen crop is produced in Europe with 10,000 companies from 14 European Union countries participating in all stages of the fiber's production and transformation.". Behind (or on the south side of) this building are the famous Pyramides of the Louvre museum. They handed out a c...
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textals: Whip it, whip it good
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Textiles by Tal Landeau.musings on my fiber world. Tuesday, March 19, 2013. Whip it, whip it good. I am trying to finish some projects that have been on hold for too long.I am afraid that there are too many to count! So, now I'm finally finishing it which involves an entirely different mindset than actually hooking it. I prefer using the excellent "fold-forward finish" of Cindi Gay which she outlines in her rug e-school on her website cindigayrughooking.com. Edge of rug, ready for whipstitching. The whip...
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textals: April 2016
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Textiles by Tal Landeau.musings on my fiber world. Sunday, April 17, 2016. The work of my hands, out of my hands. For my exhibit, Fiber Pursuits: Theories of Seeing at the Moira Fitzsimmons Arons Gallery at Hamden Hall Country Day School, I have hung 31 pieces of my fiber work. These works include tapestry, rug hooking, handwoven yardage, garments and a mess of other fiber techniques I've been playing around with over the years. The look on some of their faces when they did was priceless. Can you see me?
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textals: July 2014
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Textiles by Tal Landeau.musings on my fiber world. Thursday, July 17, 2014. Owning your work aka weaving that looks like it's yours. Last July, I was fortunate to take a tapestry weaving workshop from. In lovely Garden Valley, Idaho. What a treat! After taking my loom back to my cabin at the Wander Inn and working on my piece in the evening, I returned to class the following day, shared my little tapestry and wondered aloud: “Why is it that everything I weave looks like I wove it? Back of the tapestry, l...
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textals: July 2013
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Textiles by Tal Landeau.musings on my fiber world. Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Paris Journal: Animals in the city. Paris is a lovely city with creative store window displays. Here are a few sheep sightings in the city. I think this is one of the sheep you're expected to be counting while trying to get to sleep. On the mattresses they sell in this store just north of the Marche St. Pierre in Montmartre. How can you not love the sheep on the ladder? The place to go to fill that empty aquarium! Had I been at ...
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textals: October 2014
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Textiles by Tal Landeau.musings on my fiber world. Tuesday, October 21, 2014. Paris Journal: "Tai Tai": textiles in the city, aka my new favorite place. The amazing thing about cities is that you can turn the corner and find a treasure of a store, one you never noticed before (or wasn't there the last time you walked this particular direction). Right there in your proverbial backyard! I walked down rue Andre del Sarte and found Tai Tai Boutique. This store is a treasure trove of finds! The selection of f...
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textals: The work of my hands, out of my hands
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Textiles by Tal Landeau.musings on my fiber world. Sunday, April 17, 2016. The work of my hands, out of my hands. For my exhibit, Fiber Pursuits: Theories of Seeing at the Moira Fitzsimmons Arons Gallery at Hamden Hall Country Day School, I have hung 31 pieces of my fiber work. These works include tapestry, rug hooking, handwoven yardage, garments and a mess of other fiber techniques I've been playing around with over the years. The look on some of their faces when they did was priceless. Can you see me?
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textals: Paris Journal: "Tai Tai": textiles in the city, aka my new favorite place
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Textiles by Tal Landeau.musings on my fiber world. Tuesday, October 21, 2014. Paris Journal: "Tai Tai": textiles in the city, aka my new favorite place. The amazing thing about cities is that you can turn the corner and find a treasure of a store, one you never noticed before (or wasn't there the last time you walked this particular direction). Right there in your proverbial backyard! I walked down rue Andre del Sarte and found Tai Tai Boutique. This store is a treasure trove of finds! The selection of f...