Vivian Morrison
"The Best Mirror is an Old Friend"
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| (Photos by Cindy Kuo) | |
Embarking on any creative project requires a lot of thinking time. For me, it often is during my daily two mile walk. I knew I wanted to pay tribute to the friends I have made through my affiliation with Women’s Journeys in Fiber. But how do I do that and still meet the project’s goal: make a purse. What form should it take? As a weaver, what type of process should I use to “make” the fabric?
My idea was born during my walk on Christmas Day. By using pictures and mirrors, mounted onto a wooden box, I could accomplish my goal. But there were still plenty of challenges ahead. Traditional fibers associated with weaving cloth would not give me the transparency I wanted to showcase the pictures and mirrors I wanted to use on my purse. Sharing this concern helped steer me into new directions, with the “fiber” bought for it at a Bass Pro shop—after all, it is fishing line.
Other shopping excursions turned up a wooden box that just happened to be in the form of a purse. And the mirror paper that lines and edges my bag was bought in a scrap booking store.
As far as weaving goes, a traditional double weave process allowed me to insert both pictures and mirrors. Fishing line, though, is much more rigid than yarns usually used. I solved that control problem by using masking tape on the loom. Thus, my tribute to friends became a reality and not just a fleeting creative idea.
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Hand woven double weave fabric using mono filament
threads, a process which creates pockets into which the photos are inserted
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