We weavers were chatting the other day about our group and how far we have come – and how far we still have to go – and how we really love weaving and we are so pleased to be able to begin to earn a living with our weaving. Nearly all of us learned to weave on the back strap loom when we were young, and we love working with the yarns and the beautiful colors. We had the opportunity to learn to weave on the foot loom after our group decided to start a business weaving. Little by little our work improved, and then we began to gain confidence in designing our own fabrics.
Recently, our challenge was to design a “happy fabric” to use to make cushions for the preschool that Grupo Cajola is starting. (Grupo Cajola is the organization that helped us first organize as a group and has been helping us start up our business.) We got together and thought about what colors are “happy” and picked pink as our warp (the length of the fabric). Then we decided to put broad stripes in red, yellow, and blue, so each cushion will have three broad stripes.
You can see the weaving in the photo; we hope you think it is “happy”!
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