About
Weaving was never only about cloth.
It is a way of thinking.
Line crosses line. Tension creates form. Repetition becomes pattern. A simple grid can produce extraordinary complexity.
In weaving, structure is not hidden beneath the design.
Structure is the design.
That is what has fascinated me for more than ten years.
The loom sits at an unusual intersection: logic and intuition, mathematics and colour, precision and improvisation. It asks the eye to see relationships, the mind to understand systems and the hands to translate an idea into something physical.
Perhaps that is why weaving has never really belonged to the past.
Its principles have travelled from some of humanity’s earliest textiles to modern abstraction, programmable looms and the new generation of intelligent materials being developed today.
And yet the experience of weaving remains wonderfully human.
Thread still has to be touched.
Tension has to be felt.
A decision has to be made.
A mistake has to be understood.
Time has to be given.
After years of creating one-of-a-kind textiles and exploring different techniques and materials, teaching became a natural continuation of that fascination.
TA-DA courses begin with making, but they are really about discovering how things are made.
Small groups allow the technique to be taught properly. The projects are contemporary. No previous experience is necessary.
You learn how structure becomes surface, how material changes an idea and how a sequence of small decisions gradually becomes an object that is entirely real — and entirely yours.
There is something particularly relevant about doing this now.
We live increasingly through things we cannot touch: screens, images, algorithms, instant answers.
Making brings us back into direct contact with material, process and our own ability to create.
Not because the past was better.