A Weaver's Diary

A Weaver's Diary

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Drawing A Weaving

When I don't have time to weave, I draw instead

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Christabel Balfour
Sep 01, 2023
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For as long as I’ve been weaving, I’ve been drawing weavings too. As I noted in the margins of my first year art school sketchbook it is “easier to explore a concept in drawing than to actually make it”. Further down the page, in brackets, I wrote “it’s cheaper too”. 

Weaving was an expensive pursuit for me back then, scraping by on my meagre student bud…

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