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I enjoy playing with weave structures. I love visual, and actual, textures. Dyeing yarns and playing with color is fun. I will also...
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Sara Nordling
- Jan 7, 2018
- 1 min
New Year, New Design
In the last weeks of the new year I designed and wove a series of scarves. I am presenting them to you all as a design challenge. It is...
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Sara Nordling
- Nov 29, 2017
- 2 min
Summary of the Elements and Principles
We have reached the end. We have reached the beginning. I have written on all the elements and principles of design, the end of the list...
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Sara Nordling
- Sep 12, 2017
- 2 min
Why Study Design?
You may be asking yourself, so what? Where is this going? What is the point? You spend time and money weaving. Whether it is a hobby...
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Sara Nordling
- Aug 30, 2017
- 2 min
Elements of Design: Texture
When you think of texture, what comes to mind? The great novelty yarn you bought because you couldn’t live without it and now, don’t...
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Sara Nordling
- Aug 23, 2017
- 3 min
Elements of Design: Color
Color, also called hue, is your crayon box. It is the rainbow plus all those earthy tones and any other one you can imagine. I am not...
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Sara Nordling
- Aug 17, 2017
- 3 min
Elements of Design: Value
Value is the lightness or darkness of a hue (color). Hue will be discussed in the next section. For now I will stick with value It is...
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Sara Nordling
- Aug 9, 2017
- 3 min
Elements of Design: Shape
Summer and Winter weave featuring stars and stripes Shape here refers not to the overall dimensions of an object (format) but to the use...
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Sara Nordling
- Aug 1, 2017
- 2 min
Elements of Design: Line
Lines created by supplementary warp, tacked down with an occasional weft thread. Where do you find a line in weaving? Let’s start with...
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Sara Nordling
- Jul 27, 2017
- 2 min
Introducing...
How on earth do you begin something like this? That has been my conundrum for some time. First, an introduction, my name is Sara...
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