This week’s Woven Women tapestry has a long title:
Sun setting
Moon rising
Small wave at ocean’s edge
touches Her foot…..
copyright Noreen Crone-Findlay http://www.crone-findlay.com
Woven 2012-2013
7 inches wide by 14 inches tall
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Woven Women- In the Heart of the Flower
In the deep mid-winter, I long for flowers.
My studio is full of plants that bloom, and I am grateful for their beauty.
Even though I can’t have flowers growing outside in the deep deep snow and ice,
I can dream of flowers and weave yarn songs to blossoms and blooming……
Here is my homage to flowers and blossoms:
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Noreen Crone-Findlay
http://www.crone-findlay.com
She is 15 inches wide by 39 inches tall.
See: Woven Women-Dreaming the Well LINK for a photo of how I weave these tapestries on peg looms.
Woven Women-The Eyes of the Butterfly
When I became a grandmother, I saw the world in a whole new way…. through the eyes of the butterfly…..
Seeing my grandson emerge, and witnessing him ‘spread his wings’ makes it so heartrendingly clear just how magical and fragile our precious world is.
In response, I wove this tapestry, which is a love song to my daughter and her son.
Becoming a grandmother means that I now sing a love song to all the tender new lives that we must nurture.
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Tapestry: Woven Women-The Eyes of the Butterfly
by Noreen Crone-Findlay 2012-2013
approximately 14 inches wide by 36 inches tall
The yarn used in the tapestry is special to me for 2 reasons…. one is that most of it came from my mother’s collection of yarns, and the rest of it was spun by my beautiful daughter in love, Alliston Findlay.
Lots of precious threads here…..
Peg loom tapestry Dreaming the Well
I am working on a series of woven piece, called, ‘Woven Women’.
Here is my most recent Woven Woman, ‘Dreaming the Well’.
I wove her on a peg loom.
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Here she is, with the weaving complete, still on the pegs of the loom.
And, then, I got out my felting needles and spent many, many, many hours, felting the details onto her:
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And here are some closer looks.
She’s 27 inches tall by 17 inches wide (69 cm by 43 cm).
Unfortunately, my camera messes with the colors and makes the edges harsher… the felting does soften things up very nicely.
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The images are based on meditations, dreams and just whatever wanted to be woven at that moment.
copyright Noreen Crone-Findlay
I keep promising to show more of the Woven Women pieces, so I will post more pics of them throughout the next few days, so stay tuned!
Mustn’t leave without giving credit to my daughter in law, for many of the handspun yarns in ‘Dreaming the Well’: LINK
And, as always…. go gently and with joy! 😀
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