A Tactile Notion: A collaboration between Kim McCollum and Brianna Tosswill
"A Tactile Notion"
A collaboration between
Kim McCollum and Brianna Tosswill
Presale begins Nov 19, 10:00AM MST
Available while supplies last
I have teamed up with the talented printmaker Brianna Tosswill. She brings an equal passion for handmade things and an uncanny ability to transform ideas into beautiful figurative linocut prints. When we started putting some of her prints next to my weavings, they had a visual and tactile connection. Both weaving and printmaking are labor intensive practices with rich histories. We are excited to bring these two ways of working together in a neat package, tied up with string of course!
Our new project, "A Tactile Notion" brings a handwoven swatch, associated weaving draft, and linocut print quarterly to your doorstep over the next 12 months.
When you have a handwoven swatch, you can look closely, and 'read' the story of the weft thread as it makes its way across the warp. The first of four editions is an overshot swatch and a linocut print of a reader - weaver. Brianna puts everything together in a hand printed letterpress package for safekeeping.
When you have a handwoven swatch, you can look closely, and 'read' the story of the weft thread as it makes its way across the warp. The first of four editions is an overshot swatch and a linocut print of a reader - weaver. Brianna puts everything together in a hand printed letterpress package for safekeeping.
Find out more about Brianna's work here. Find out more about my work here.
I can't wait for you to hold this gorgeous bundle of woven sample and print in your own hands! In these hand making practices, the evidence of process is visible in the way the ink sites on the page and the way some fibres raise above others, but only when you look (and touch) very closely.
I can't wait for you to hold this gorgeous bundle of woven sample and print in your own hands! In these hand making practices, the evidence of process is visible in the way the ink sites on the page and the way some fibres raise above others, but only when you look (and touch) very closely.
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You’ve done all the hard work of setting up warp and dressing your loom. You sit down and press a treadle (or flick a table loom lever) to throw that satisfying first pick and… nothing happens. The threads just sit there. Or maybe they open a little, but certainly not enough to throw a shuttle through comfortably. You, my friend, have a small (or missing) shed.
How to Beat: Improving accuracy and consistency when weaving
‘Beating’ is one of those weaving words that sounds much more dramatic than it really is. Each time a weaver throws a line (or ‘pick’) of weft, they need to push that weft into place to make a clean and even grid. This is called beating the weft. On a multi-shaft loom, you beat by swinging the beater bar towards you. On a rigid heddle loom, you use the rigid heddle reed to beat the weft. Some styles of weaving, like tapestry weaving and some rug weaving, require a special tool called a hand beater, which is a heavy wooden comb used for heavy beating. The tools are different, but the goal is the same: to get each pick of weft exactly where it needs to be.
