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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...
Sara Nordling
Jan 19, 20202 min read
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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...
Sara Nordling
Jan 7, 20181 min read
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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...
Sara Nordling
Nov 29, 20172 min read
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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...
Sara Nordling
Sep 12, 20172 min read
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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...
Sara Nordling
Aug 30, 20172 min read
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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...
Sara Nordling
Aug 23, 20173 min read
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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...
Sara Nordling
Aug 17, 20173 min read
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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...
Sara Nordling
Aug 9, 20173 min read
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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...
Sara Nordling
Aug 1, 20172 min read
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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...
Sara Nordling
Jul 27, 20172 min read
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