This year’s teasel harvest I refreshed the teasels at the front door. This is my shingle. elserine is a weaver. During a Vancouver Island Surface Design Assoc meeting elserine demonstrated how the teasel was/is used to full woven or knit garments to make them soft. Gently stroking the cloth with a tied teasel bundle raises the nap. Commercially […]
Read More...For my studio design I started with pattern 104 Site Repair. ‘Buildings must always be built on those parts of the land which are in the worst condition, not the best.’ The idea is the building will improve the site and leave the beautiful places in tact. We have a problematic area in our back […]
Read More...I used the ‘Pattern Language’ system for designing the reworking of our back yard and the conceptual design of my new studio. Christopher Alexander and his Berkeley team in the Centre for Environmental Structure came up with 253 patterns or problems that occur in our environment and their solutions, which are like instructions on what […]
Read More...The big and exciting news in my life is I am getting a studio built. So far it has taken many hours of planning, discussion and decision making. I developed my ideas to the concept stage, incorporating the studio into my back yard project. We have been working with architect Jonathan Aitken Aitken Design who has ably […]
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