Sunday Inspiration, The Tapestries of Rachel Brown: Habitat
Posted: March 31, 2013 Filed under: Handwoven Tapestries, Rachel Brown, Sunday Inspiration, Tapestry Yarn, Weaving, Weaving Southwest | Tags: Arroyo Seco, Handwoven, Handwoven Tapestries, Llama, New Mexico, Rachel Brown, Rio Grande Weavers Supply, taos, tapestry, Weaving Southwest, wool, yarn Leave a comment »“While I was weaving this design, there happened to be the forest fire in Llama (New Mexico) that destroyed many of my friend’s homes. I can remember stepping out of the studio while weaving the middle section and I decided right then that I would call it Habitat.” -Rachel Brown
This tapestry is woven with our hand-dyed Rio Grande 2-ply Tapestry Yarn. Enjoy!
Habitat, Handwoven Tapestry by Rachel Brown
Sunday Inspiration, The Tapestries of Rachel Brown: Andean Gold
Posted: March 24, 2013 Filed under: Handwoven Tapestries, Rachel Brown, Sunday Inspiration, Tapestry Yarn, Weaving, Weaving Southwest | Tags: Cusco, hand-dyed wool, Handwoven, Handwoven Tapestries, New Mexico, Peru, Rachel Brown, taos, tapestry, Weaving Southwest, wool Leave a comment »“I had just installed a new program for my computer and I decided I would design something on it to weave. Well, I got about an inch worth of weaving done and realized that it didn’t work for me at all so I just wove whatever I felt like weaving.
As I was weaving it, it reminded me of a valley in Peru outside of Cusco where I was sitting, taking in the beauty of the valley. The transition from the yellows and gold’s, to dark grey and blues. While I was sitting there, there was a little boy on the other side of the valley singing at the top of his lungs while he was herding lamas. The little black and white squares represent his voice.” -Rachel Brown
This is another tapestry woven with our hand-dyed Rio Grande 2-ply Tapestry Yarn. Enjoy!
Andean Gold, Handwoven Tapestry by Rachel Brown
Sunday Inspiration, The Tapestries of Rachel Brown: Solola
Posted: March 17, 2013 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »“This is a Manta with a black and white checkered background and brilliant colored diagonals in the middle. When I was in Guatemala, there was a town called Solola where the men actually spin their yarn and weave their loincloths. The brilliant colors in the center signify the Guatemalan love of colors.” -Rachel Brown
Solola, Handwoven Tapestry by Rachel Brown
Elsada’s First Sheep Shearing
Posted: March 16, 2013 Filed under: Sheep | Tags: churro, fiber, navajo-churro, New Mexico, shearing, sheep, shorn, taos, wool Leave a comment »Elsada Rae, my brother Tyler and I were invited to a shearing at Patricia Quintana’s ranch here in Taos. She raises Churro sheep and, come spring time, it is time to shear! I was busy helping clean the fleeces, but was able to get a couple photos.
Churro sheep being shorn
Elsi and Ty watching the sheep being shorn
Elsi and Ty watching the sheep being shorn
Catching the sheep to take it to the shearing station
Churro sheep being shorn
The Churro’s after they have been shorn
Elsi Rae tuckered out in her Carharts after a big day at the ranch
Vicky’s First Rug, Random Stripes
Posted: March 15, 2013 Filed under: Classes, Handwoven Rugs, Weaving, Your Work | Tags: hand-dyed wool, Handwoven, New Mexico, rug yarn, taos, weaving, Weaving Southwest, wool 3 Comments »Vicky has been talking classes with us for three years now. When she came to town this winter she decided she wanted to rent a loom from us to weave a striped rug. She started by choosing her colors of Rug Yarn and wound all of her bobbins. She chose to weave a random striped rug. However, she wanted some consistency, so she chose four widths to work with 1″, 3″, 5″ and 7″. She wrote each of these numbers down on little pieces of paper and put them into a container. She cut a snippet of each skein of yarn she planned on using and put them in another container. Then she picked out (with eyes closed) a snippet of yarn and a piece of paper. If she choose a 7 and Sunflower, she would weave 7″ of Sunflower! Before she started weaving she also decided to have Black bands on each end of the rug to tie it all together. This was the result…
The start of the first section of black
The first color… Sunflower!
The container of snippets and numbers
Vicky taking her first large rug off the loom!
A sneak-peek before Vicky unrolls it off of the loom
Success! Vicky, Joe and Elsi holding up her beautiful striped rug…
How Vicky’s beautiful random striped rug will look on the floor…
Another beautiful day at the dyepots…
Posted: March 14, 2013 Filed under: Dyeing, Tapestry Yarn | Tags: Arroyo Seco, dyeing yarn, hand-dyed, hand-dyed wool, New Mexico, Rio Grande Weavers Supply, taos, tapestry, wool, yarn dyeing Leave a comment »
Rug Yarn freshly pulled out of the pots
2-ply Tapestry Yarn just out of the dyepot
2-ply Tapestry rinsed and ready to be straightened (this is where our inspiration comes from)
Your Work, Michal Anne Pepper’s First Rug
Posted: March 13, 2013 Filed under: Handwoven Rugs, Rio Grande Weavers Supply, Weaving Southwest, Your Work | Tags: design, hand made, hand-dyed, hand-dyed wool, handmade, Handwoven, local, New Mexico, Rio Grande Weavers Supply, rug, rug yarn, taos, weaving, wool, Woven, yarn 2 Comments »Michal Anne wove this beautiful striped rug on a Schacht Mighty Wolf Loom using our Hand-dyed Rug Yarn as weft and a locally spun Churro warp. We love it, Michal Anne!
Handwoven Rug by Michal Anne Pepper
