Complex Weavers September Showcase

Complex Weavers Sharing Information - Encouraging Interests: "September Wedding Shawl This month we showcase Lynn Smetko's 'September Wedding Shawl'. Lynn writes: 'This shawl was created to commemorate my daughter's special day. I dyed the warp and weft (Treenway's 20/2 spun silk) in the colors she used for her outdoor September wedding: aubergine, like the bridesmaids' dresses, and bright autumn colors, like the bouquets. '"

Complex Weavers Sharing Information - Encouraging Interests

Complex Weavers Sharing Information - Encouraging Interests: "'Teddy Bears' by the Goodwins This month we showcase the Goodwins' 'Teddy Bears' The late Roy Goodwins wrote (in Complex Weavers Journal, Sept 2003, 'OzBod Weaver': 'Part of my joy of weaving is that I am free to do as I please, I rarely set out with a purpose. I find patterns and yarns and put them together to make cloth, others can find uses for it ... What I weave becomes anything from dish cloths to shawls to coats to rugs. Shown here are Teddy Bears made by Roy's wife, Maureen, from his woven scraps. The silk came from their own silk worms. They raised the worms, unwound and cleaned the silk, spun it, and Roy wove it. For an obituary about the late Roy Goodwins, see the October 2006 Complex Weavers Journal"

Complex Weavers Sharing Information - Encouraging Interests

Complex Weavers Sharing Information - Encouraging Interests: "This month we showcase Margaret Marshall's 'Birds of Paradise Scarf' Margaret writes: 'The actual weave for my scarf is satin weave, a demanding if not Complex weave. The complexity came from the total concept involving materials (handspun and commercial silk), design principles, especially balance and unity, weave structure, and above all, colour."

Crafty Geometry: Science News Online, Dec. 23, 2006

This is terrific! Are we weavers restricted to the Cartesian plane? Crafty Geometry: Science News Online, Dec. 23, 2006: "Crafty Geometry Mathematicians are knitting and crocheting to visualize complex surfaces Erica Klarreich During the 2002 winter holidays, mathematician Hinke Osinga was relaxing with some lace crochet work when her partner and mathematical collaborator Bernd Krauskopf asked, 'Why don't you crochet something useful?' Some crocheters might bridle at the suggestion that lace is useless, but for Osinga, Krauskopf's question sparked an exciting idea. 'I looked at him, and we thought the same thing at the same moment,' Osinga recalls. 'We realized that you could crochet the Lorenz manifold.' [see the origianl location for pictures] For years, Osinga and Krauskopf, both of the University of Bristol in England, had been studying the Lorenz manifold, a complicated surface that emerges from a model of chaotic weather systems. The pair had created an algorithm to generate 2-dimensional computer visualizations of the surface, but Osinga found the flat images unsatisfying. When Krauskopf asked his question, she suddenly realized that the computer algorithm could be interpreted as crochet instructions. 'I had to try it,' she says. Eighty-five hours and 25,511 crochet stitches later, Osinga had a Lorenz manifold almost a meter tall and about 25 centimeters in diameter, which now hangs in the pair's house as a decoration." [there's lots more - go to http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20061223/bob10.asp]

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Complex Weavers: 'Sedona Shawl' by Bonnie Inouye This month we showcase Bonnie Inouye's 'Sedona Shawl' Bonnie writes: "The colors in this shawl were inspired by a visit to the Sedona, Arizona home of another CW member, Linda Sunstad, followed by a 16-day raft trip down the Grand Canyon in 2005. I watched the colors on red rocks shift in changing light and wondered if I could create fabric with similar shifting colors. The shapes in the draft also came from these weather and water-shaped rocks."