BUTTERFLIES.

My husband and I have made it a tradition, if his birtheday is a sunny day and either falls in the weekend or on a holiday we go to the zoo here in Copenhagen.
I always want to go and see the room where the butterflies are. They are so beautiful and in a way also mysterious. The patterns are special and unusual.
My dream is to visit the Amazon in Peru where the most amazing butterflies should be.

This is the leftovers from a butterfly cocoon after it has become a butterfly. The transperans, colors and patterns are amazing. A textile apperance.

WORKING ON NOW.

I have now been at my new studio for one month and have made it really cosy. Finally I am setting up a loom for some pillows.
The inspiration comes from a weaving class I did some time ago in the yarns from the Japanese yarncompany Nakachuu.

Different kinds of paperyarns from Nakachuu for the project.

In this sample I have purposely not woven equal. In an earlier post "Weaving at my job" from June 10 I have describe how to weave like this.

In the sample above the materials are linen, flat transperant paperyarn and a cellulose yarn in B/W, all from Nakachuu.

Ideas on how to make stripes in the reed and make movement in the weft direction.

Sample of honeycomb in linen warp and silk weft.

This design was sewn into a pillow last year and sold to the Art Association of Copenhagen University Hospital.

Later on I will write about the process on the loom.

SWEETS IN FRANKFURT.

I have just been visiting Frankfurt for the Techtextile Fair. Here I always have to go and buy sweets at BITTER ZART. A fantastic little shop next to the Dom.
The shop it self is decorated with charming interior, all in the romantic style. Eventhough it is not my style I love it.

What is amazing for this little shop is the wrapping. They have put a lot of effort into making each sweet looking special, all of them with their own little tag.

Here is soft nougat with different kinds of taste. I bought some for my husband with ginger, apricot and rosemary.

Shelves full of different kinds of sweets; chocolate, licorice, gummi etc.

A whole wall full of different kinds of beautiful wrapped chocolate.

COLORS OF TULIPS.

Spring is here, lets celebrate colors.

Outside on my little balcony I have these beautiful tulips in yellow, red and orange. They make me happy!!

EASTER -AROUND THE CORNER.

Easter is around the corner. In Peru also known as the Holy Week.
When I were in Peru three years ago, just before I got married in Lima, me and my husband often went into the center of Lima in the area called Tacna.
Everywhere, specially around the churches people were selling these objects made out of different kinds of straws. They hang them in there houses or gave them away as gifts.

Here a young man is sitting on the pavement.

I totally feel in love with this old man. His designs were very simple.

Today I have several hanging around in ouer appartment during Easter.

One is always hanging on the frontdoor to welcome people.

WRAPPING -MUMMIES FROM V&A.

In 2007 I travelled to London for a textile conference and jacquard course with Vibeke Westby and Bhakti Ziek. During my stay I visited the Victoria and Albert Museum and I saw this beautiful exhibition of mummies from Egypt.

In this post I just want to show pictures of the amazing wrapping. The patterns are so beautiful. A lot of texture and almost like weaving.