Anyone have a loom I could borrow?

via TeenAngster

Spinning wool under the moonlight, sounds good to me!
Sounds like something my Jewish/ Berber ancestors would do.
But, according to artist Julia Sherman...

"In the Kabbalah it says that unmarried women are forbidden to spin under the moonlight, as it is seen as a brazen display of one’s sexual potential."

Right.  I'm already married, so I'm good to go.
Oh and yes, the next full moon is this Saturday night.

Here's the video by Julia Sherman, entitled Mother of All. Thanks to TeenAngster for posting this today. Very cool.

Mother-of-All from julia sherman on Vimeo.

a little macrame madness

Remember my macrame work for Aritzia (read about it here).  Thought I'd share a couple of great blog postings about it, via Post Grad Haircut and The Wren.

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I am ever-obsessed with the knot-tying madness that is macrame. While researching seventies macrame patterns, I came across this astounding sculptural work by American fibre artist Claire Zeisler. I can only imagine the hours of finicky work that went into these massive beings.  My mind is truly blown!

  
Blanket #3 by Keesic Douglas
at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery