Sentences with phrase «as weaver»

«As a weaver for many years I have explored and tried many types of weaving.

From 1946 to 1949 she attended Black Mountain College, in whose innovative arts program she studied under such renowned teachers as Buckminster Fuller and Josef Albers as well as weaver Trude Guermonprez.

The artist sees herself as a weaver of words and visual and spatial languages, a craft rich in historical allegory and symbolism.

Trained as a weaver at Chelsea College of Art, she utilises the embedded histories of cloth, to comment on the compacted social histories that are encapsulated within material culture.

Vibrant and complex, the geometric compositions draw on her long career as a weaver and on her drawings, but they also resemble paintings by early - 20th - century artists like Sonia Delaunay.

She established herself in the 1970s as a weaver of large minimalist textiles, and one of her tapestries from 2005 hangs in the Norwegian National Parliament's press room in Oslo.

Carriage House - A collection of vintage tools, as well as a weaver's workshop that depicts plantation chores c.1800 - 1820.

We capture a glimpse of it and record it as our true myth of self, despite the fact that time moves on «swift as the weaver's shuttle.»

At just a fraction of the size of the finished article, it was this drawing that served as the weavers» main reference, from which they produced a cartoon enabling them to transfer Ofili's design to the loom (main picture).

Since some of the food was needed by people who had no direct hand in producing it (such as weavers, shamans and granary guards), some means had to be found of giving them equitable access to it.

Not exact matches

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

According to R. MacMullen, the artisan included both the weaver of wool (eriourgos) and linen (linourgos) as well as the carpenter (tekton).

I would like to believe Deepak, but I'm not sure he's not just another dream weaver, no offense to Dr. Chopra, as I say I would like to believe what he's proposing, we don't know though, so we need to keep scientifically ethical, it it can't be disproved, it's metaphysical, and therefore not science.

Look on the internet for tutorials, the local Weavers and Dyers Guild are usually a mine of information, as are local colleges and craft centres, on top of these places here are some especially useful tips from some of the sellers:

Combed cotton produces some of the softest woven cloth and allows the weaver to achieve a higher thread count as the fibers are the long, evenly aligned cotton and give the softest feel of all the prepared cotton yarns.

[200] The term kente has its roots in the Akan word kɛntɛn which means a basket and the first kente weavers used raffia fibres to weave cloths that looked like kenten (a basket); and thus were referred to as kenten ntoma; meaning basket cloth.

Councilman Arnold Stevens uses a «weaver,» a horizontal piece for making a basket, to make a point about flexibility as he speaks at Meet the Candidate Night held in Johnsburg, Sept. 5.

However, it's not yet plain sailing for the jumping spider, as it is also a favorite snack of its savior, the weaver ant.

* Correction 2 November, 2:30 p.m.: An earlier version of this story incorrectly described the silk by some orb weavers as woolly when viscid is accurate.

In a later study comparing almost 3400 active genes in 70 spider species, Bond's team found that mostly webless, ground - dwelling arachnids such as wolf spiders and jumping spiders diversified much more quickly than web weavers, perhaps because they were able to exploit a plethora of new opportunities once they no longer had to build and tend webs.

WEAVER: Everybody looks to the NOAA policy as an amazing piece of communications policy.

silk A fine, strong, soft fiber spun by a range of animals, such as silkworms and many other caterpillars, weaver ants, caddis flies and spiders.

Using the sturdy material known as Serge de Nîmes, weavers accidentally created jeans when they were attempting to recreate a corduroy trouser that had become famous in Italy.

Top - notch machinery, the team of ingenious designers, highest craftsmanship of British weavers and best - of - the - kind fibres are the factors of company's success by this day as well.

In the tradition of tribal weavers of Persia, artisans dye sections of fine wool to varying saturation, then mix them for a range of tonality as they create our rug.

About Blog I am a designer weaver and love to use natural yarns in my work, such as linen, silk, alpaca, cashmere and merino wool.

Devastated, Rees left his son, David, in his sister's care, fled his Maine farm, and struck out for a tough but emotionally empty life as a traveling weaver.

As far as the equipment goes, a starter kit will not include all of the equipment you see in competitions but it will have plenty, including weaver poles, a tunnel and a chutAs far as the equipment goes, a starter kit will not include all of the equipment you see in competitions but it will have plenty, including weaver poles, a tunnel and a chutas the equipment goes, a starter kit will not include all of the equipment you see in competitions but it will have plenty, including weaver poles, a tunnel and a chute.

The Scottish influence, brought in by the weavers during the industrial revolution, are the same ancestors as the Scottish Terrier, West Highland White Terrier, and Cairn Terrier (all once one breed), as well as the Skye Terrier.

History: Yorkshire Terriers are of fairly recent origin from Great Britain as Scottish weavers migrated to England around the mid 1800s.

Pembroke Welsh Corgis, as they are now known, were the progeny of dogs brought to Wales by Flemish weavers in the 10th century.

Travel by boat to San Juan la Laguna a charming village known as the most artistic, well organized by the different groups of artisans and cooperatives of weavers that work on natural dyes.

Though up to each individual, it was always more fun to experience something unique together, such as visiting the master weavers in Pisac, who taught us how they dye their alpaca wool using vegetation, or hiking up to the isolated community of Viacha to learn about the 4,000 different varieties of potatoes that grow in Peru.

I had a stranger, who was a local Mexican weaver, strike up a conversation in the zocalo in Oaxaca and ended up with him as my tour guide the next day to some of the sites as well as his shop (Oaxaca, Mexico — Felipe the Weaver (part 1)-- Video Episode 46).

We visited a weaver, the Catholic church, and the local house of worship dedicated to San Simon, also known as Maximon.

It's as if with line from the loom - Weaver knife and weaver brush Stitch color thick into Diamond and terrace, into Planes black as wool tied by Stripe and cross, all falling in The warp and weft of weave, Patchwork tricksters playing «till Depths fill with ring and bell Purple against the harvest moon.

In his review of the exhibition in The New York Times, Holland Cotter writes, «the grid as a form gets an impressive pre-Minimalist workout in 1940s room dividers made of cellophane and horsehair by the incomparable weaver, printmaker, art historian, philosopher, teacher, theorist and life - student Anni Albers.»

The show brings together a number of works created by Bayrle starting in the 1970s that model anonymous grids of city blocks and highways — works he initially envisioned while working as a jacquard weaver and staring into the hypnotic patterns of the thread crossings.

Although Boetti first rose to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the Arte Povera group, his name later became synonymous with the large tapestries that he would design and then send to weavers in Afghanistan to be made.

Alighiero Boetti, the subject of a major survey in 2012 at Tate Modern, the Reina Sofia and MoMA NY, is represented by several important works, including his Mappa from 1979 (illustrated left, estimate: # 450,000 - 650,000)-- part of the famous series of embroidered world maps that he made between 1971 and 1994 in partnership with Afghan women weavers living in Kabul and later as refugees in Peshawar — are the best - known and most - loved of all his works.

Other artists such as Eduardo Paolozzi produced innovative designs for the manufacturers Edinburgh Weavers, David Whitehead Ltd, and Heal & Son Ltd..

In this case I have imposed my own set of rules (presented as a series of instructions) to the weavers, who are a diverse, highly skilled group of artists and artisans from all over the country.

It is rarer for a young artist (Kowch is now 31 years old) to inspire that level of confidence that she will make paintings that meet expectations, both men separately said, stemming from Kowch's abilities as a consistent painter of technical excellence and weaver of narrative magical realism.

The grid as a form gets an impressive pre-Minimalist workout in 1940s room dividers made of cellophane and horsehair by the incomparable weaver, printmaker, art historian, philosopher, teacher, theorist and life - student Anni Albers.

His work is influenced by his experience of growing up in post-Nazi Germany, where he trained and worked as an industrial weaver.

He began his working career as an assistant to Denis Mitchell and Barbara Hepworth in St. Ives, whilst setting himself up as a painter, jeweller, weaver, and later sculptor.

She'd go on to refer to Peruvian weavers as her «greatest teachers,» and described their work as «infinite phantasy within the world of threads, conveying strength or playfulness, mystery or the reality of their surroundings, endlessly varied in presentation and construction, even though bound to a code of basic concepts.»

Just as spiders spin and repair their webs, Louises own mother was a weaver of tapestries.

Mariana Aguirre visits the famed Guadalajara workshop whose weavers have created tapestries for artists such as John Currin, Pae White, George Condo and Karen Kilimnik.

As usual the connection she makes with her family is unquestionable and somehow too perfect, «Like a spider» she once said, «my mother was a weaver.»