weaving – Page 11 – sue orton

Barbican Project

I’m loving being on the Handweavers Diploma in London and recently completed my first project. The Barbican was our design inspiration. Here is the poem that was at the heart of my mood board. Also one or two pictures of the swatches in the collection.

Now is then and then is now
now is then and then is now,
relentless soul-less grey,
tingled alive with flashes of joy and colour
memories of you here, mingle with finger tipped geraniums on the flats

now is then and then is now,
steady studying summer-school,
heart pricked, such laughter and tears
shapes oozing remembered days, swamped by solid blocks of stuck-ness

now is then and then is now,
solid blocks surrender
leaking light, space, ideas for colour and design
gathering slowly, I warm to my task, my weaver and your artist joined.

(I last visited the Barbican in 1980 with my mother artist and sculptor who died 23 Oct 2013

journey sticks

made with found drift wood and wrapped and decorated with love. There making draws from ancient traditions of native peoples making talking sticks and totems.
help to gather energy and courage, mark transitions, celebrate and offer thanks and encourage story telling.
mark the seasons, a birth, a loss or a transition, make visible achievements or challenges met,
celebrate and offer thanks, for journeys made or to be made, they focus meditation or healing and represent the joy of making.
gather colour energies from healing traditions and chakras

Contact me to make one

If you would like me to facilitate a Journey Stick Workshops for you please contact me.

Thank you Brunswick Craft Day and Dog Show

Dogs eating sausages and owners eating cake: a wonderful race and one of the highlights of yesterdays Brunswick Craft Day and Dog Show. My stall seemed to work it’s wild weaver magic and rekindle and refresh folks creative energies. It was great to meet you all and those who gave me contact details will be on my mailing list shortly. If you wish to be kept in touch, click here to subscribe the Wild Weaver e-news.

As I suspected there are many beautiful makers, crafts people and creative souls who have let their talents lie dormant for a while and who only need a little encouragement to burst into making again. Fantastic! If you need a little extra encouragement why not sign up for a work shop and become a wild weaver 🙂

I am excited too by potential collaborations. Wouldn’t it be great to have a multi-craft and creative residential summer school week-end in 2014 down here in the south. All the conversations and ideas mixing and inspiring each other?

I am at the Brunswick Festival 2013 in Brunswick Square, Hove, West Sussex next Sunday 18th August 2013 so drop by and say hello if you are there.

wild weaver workshops at your place!

Why not celebrate or mark an event with a wild weaver workshop at your place?

Journey sticks, fairy rings, picture weaving, willow platters and braids….. the choice is yours 🙂

Contact to me to find out more

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Driftwood journey sticks: create your personal totem

Saturday 26th October 2013 (or as requested)

Driftwood Journey sticks: wrap and decorate your personal totem.

Each journey stick workshop will take the time to reflect, remember and share stories and make journey sticks to gather energy for our journeys. These workshops are perfect to celebrate the turning of seasons in the year, but they are wonderful to mark many things: for birth and for loss, for journeys made or to be made, to gather energy and courage, to mark transitions and to celebrate and offer thanks; journey sticks may have their place. Contact me to arrange your own journey stick workshop.