Wednesday, June 29, 2011

villa Rosa

very near to villa Bordoni (the one in the previous post) is the Glass Museum of Altare,
housed in a beautiful Liberty building, villa Rosa.
What about this as a weavers' colony?
















Saturday, June 25, 2011

adventurous

we normally don't do this things but we had already seen this house on a previous trip,
so this time we wanted to get closer to take some photos.
Then the main door was open, too inviting to say no, and we stepped in...


(some more photos here )





















Thursday, June 23, 2011

Dutch masters

Yesterday I spent a few hours taking photos with a friend for a future project.
After the serious shooting we got carried away "a la Hendrik Kerstens" with the full set of towels and plastic bags...
The day ended with a well deserved pizza. Thank you Cristina!






Friday, June 17, 2011

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

.... °°°°

days have been dark, with heavy clouds drifting by...

in the meantime some painting has been done (just the first coat!) and some sampling too.

this is going to be a light curtain for a small window - but the sett is clearly too wide.
I was afraid that after washing it it would become too dense.
I re-sleyed the reed with a closer sett, another sample on its way!


I like this collection





Thursday, June 09, 2011

#---

while searching for a copper pot in the thrift shop I stumbled upon a small collection of carpet beaters.
I just couldn't leave them there!

(this must have something to do with a recent obession with all types of basket weaving)


Monday, June 06, 2011

we've got mail

last week we ordered some books - they normally post them individually and they take a few days to arrive, usually one or two a day.

this time it was like Christmas - they all arrived together in a big sack!
the postman wasn't very happy, though...

today I like wooden textiles and paper weaves by Elisa Strozyk