{"id":3125,"date":"2015-01-31T13:28:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T13:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=3125"},"modified":"2015-01-31T13:33:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T13:33:02","slug":"nomadic-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=3125","title":{"rendered":"Nomadic Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

For years I\u2019ve been intrigued with miniature tapestry, and clearly its a growing trend.\u00a0 In Wednesday Group classes, Archie often talked about exploring how little it takes to convey the essence of something:\u00a0 a face, a gesture, a mood.\u00a0 Then came the biennial small format tapestry shows which I found endlessly inspiring!\u00a0 So many little tapestries conveying so many varying images and ideas.\u00a0 And then came tapestry diaries, an idea started by Tommye Scanlin.<\/a><\/p>\n

Susan Martin Maffei<\/a> has a body of work in miniatures as well, which I have always enjoyed.\u00a0 One of her pieces, “Travel Series: NYC to Mendocino, CA,”<\/a> is a long horizontal strip of tiny tapestries depicting images from the long train ride across the US.\u00a0 There are wonderful subjects in these tiny works: farmland, signs from nearby highways, railroad tracks, water towers.\u00a0 This long piece is a gem of how much can be conveyed in a small work. And she worked on a very small loom which she could hold in her lap on the train.<\/p>\n

Since I\u2019m traveling on a modest size sailboat, I also need to work with a small loom! \u00a0I often tell people that we are living small with a very large view!<\/p>\n

With that in mind, I began the first tapestry, a small 4\u201d x 6\u201d with warp set at 10 ends per inch.\u00a0 This is the finest tapestry warp I have, and after struggling with this piece I placed an order with Joanne Hall at Glimakra USA for some 12\/6 seine twine which can bet set at 12 epi.\u00a0 I am looking forward to seeing what I can do with a slightly finer sett. (I won’t bore you with how hard it is to get mail when you do not have a permanent address.)<\/p>\n

My series will be called \u201cNomadic Winter 2015.\u201d\u00a0 Here is #1:\u00a0 \u201cJanuary fog on the St. Marys River\u201d<\/p>\n

\"IMG_0098\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to do a small landscape for each month from January through April, but right now I have another January image from the St. Marys River that I\u2019d also like to do.\u00a0 I guess I can do whatever I want since it\u2019s my series!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For years I\u2019ve been intrigued with miniature tapestry, and clearly its a growing trend.\u00a0 In Wednesday Group classes, Archie often talked about exploring how little it takes to convey the essence of something:\u00a0 a face, a gesture, a mood.\u00a0 Then came the biennial small format tapestry shows which I found endlessly inspiring!\u00a0 So many little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tapestry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3130,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions\/3130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}