If one is not careful, Facebook and Twitter can become black holes that eat up time—huge bites at a time. However, through Facebook and Twitter, I find out about things I never would have known. HGA posted this on Twitter last Saturday, which was a retweet from http://twitter.com/FashionHistoria.
weavespindye RT @FashionHistoria “Love” this review of the Vionnet exhibition in Paris (especially the FAB videos) #fashion http://bit.ly/9kCJyq
This whole Twitter exchange was about an exhibit of fashions:
Exhibition Review: Madeleine Vionnet: Fashion Purist
I love the structure of the fashions shown in this review. The one at the bottom of this page especially caught my eye. “Wonder why?” she says facetiously. Take a look at the pictures—interesting clothes shown in the review. The design below may soon be adapted for my purposes. I’ve been sketching ideas for a series of squares, and this would be more squares within a square. Still thinking about colors, but that’s were the scanner, computer, and/or tracing paper come in handy.Ye
Yesterday I felt inspired, so made several to-scale drawings of future weavings. Still need to play with color, but it’s a start. Then today I read about this Captcha Challenge on the Compost & Creativity blog. I have always believed that restrictions make us more creative. When I started using natural dyes, I only had four colors that I felt I did well. Consequently, my designs had to be able to use some of those colors. Our next guild show will have the theme of Rhythm and Blues: The Music of the Loom. Each piece has to incorporate blue in some form or amount. Using blue won’t be a problem for me, so I’ve set myself a challenge of learning a bit about music. I’d like to see if a seed of design inspiration can come from that source. My knowledge of music is pretty much zilch, so that is my additional restriction.