More beautiful Shuttle drawings, send me yours please. x

Just got sent this beautiful lemon yellow shuttle drawing by Annah Legg, see her weaving study blog here. Thank you Annah. Send more please peeps, this is turning into a great community of hand making lovers and collection of gorgeous drawings. Much appreciate your making talents!

SEND ME YOUR HAND DRAWINGS OF SHUTTLES

So a while back I asked for people to send me their hand drawings of tools used to make hand made pieces. Such as the beautiful wooden shuttles used in my weaving. Here's some incredible drawings various people have been sending to me, including a photo of fellow weaver Allison based in Nashville USA and her hand drawn shuttle tattoo, another appreciator of hand made textiles and baking. Please send me drawings of hand making tools, to celebrate the art of producing by hand!

 Alison and her shuttle tattoo, below is the original tattoo design. 

 This colourful collection has been drawn by Linda Gregory.

A shuttle masterpiece by Nina Hunt.

These special drawings are by illustrator Sarah Dyer what a treat!

Send your drawings to me at: holly@hollyberryprojects.com as high res as possible. When I have gathered enough I will create a gallery page to showcase them all on my website and host an exhibition displaying original copies. Thank you. x

TWIST and SHOUT

In this months Twist textile magazine, about all things fibre, yarn and wool! my hand woven scarves are chosen as 'objects of desire'. Thank you twist.

http://www.textilemagazines.com/twist/twist_march_22j2f/twistmarch/index.html

The Invitation Atelier....

A close (and very talented) friend of mine has just launched her Invitation Atelier site, to cater for all of your stationary needs; save the date, wedding, parties, events and births. Beautiful pieces of work, to get your event off to the right start.  

http://www.theinvitationatelier.co.uk/index.htm

Woven Elephant

Whilst looking for structure, pattern and repetition inspiration I regularly look at buildings in the city, seeing them as woven grids and planning what yarns I could use to recreate what I see. I often look at this, one of my favorite buildings, it’s in South East London, Elephant and Castle on Harper Road SE1. It’s a disused council block and I am not the fist to be inspired by it. Artist Roger Hiorns pumped copper sulphate into one of the flats, making a growing blue crystal installation, and ‘The Streets’ filmed a music video there. A special building. I’m sadly waiting for it to be torn down, like many other old brutalist treasures. It will be missed.