Residency Day 5: In Honour of IWD

in memoriam: Nanna Daykin; the handkerchief motif will be placed in the lid of the finished box.

Suffragette; Purple for Dignity, White for Purity, and Green for Hope.

Three days away at other things now. Back on Saturday for the Corrymeela 'Violence in the Village' weekend and a performance of Messiah. I shall be weaving a special reconciliation piece throughout.
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Residency Days 4-5: 'Defence of the Islands'

After the poem by T.S Eliot, 1940. I have yet to experiment properly with the display form. Lines from the poem may run round the outside of the box rather than being in a booklet.
Land Battle
Sea Battle
Air Battle
The Home Front (Dig for Victory)

Lots of fun weaving the pseudo carrots!

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Residency Day 4: A Rarity

At the work table, weaving 'Defence of the Islands: Land'


Rare photo of me not blinking, squinting or looking bonkers!

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Residency Day 3: Fauré (trimmed) and a New One

Bad light reduces the vibrancy of the purple 'crocuses'. The new one is 'in memoriam: Nuclear Test Veterans'

Residency Day 3: 'in memoriam: Fr Mychal Judge OFM

The colours are from the blue shirt and emergency service stripes of the men who carried his body from the wreckage on 9/11. Full details of his life and death here:-

https://en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki › Mych...


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Residency Day 2: Fauré and Crocuses

Woven and knotted while listening to rehearsals of the Fauré Requiem and other French music - including the sublime Danses Sacrée et Profane. The latter is perfect weaving music. I keep gathering pieces for my treatise on the subject; something about strings under tension.....

Outside the cathedral there is a lawn of purple crocuses; the long ends of the knots will be trimmed once the tapestry is off the frame, and will hint at said field. Title yet to be confirmed.

I expect the community weaving to grow apace today. It is Mothering Sunday and congregants have been invited to bring yarn / thread / fabric and weave it in, in honour and remembrance of their mother or mother-figure.

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Residency Day 2: Community Weaving

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Residency Day 2: 'Any Man' Completed

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Residency Day 1: Results

'in memoriam: Any Man (after John Donne)', 'in memoriam: Fr Mychal Judge' and 'in memoriam: Peter Newman'. Still to have their booklets written and a tidier box for 'Any Man'.


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Residency Day1: Set Up

The working table in the welcome area at the cathedral. One woven contribution to the community tapestry so far, as well as a piece given ready for the Mothering Sunday special.

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