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Software developer that desperately tries to avoid screens by doing crafts like #tapestryweaving & #printmaking. Likes tinkering with things. London, UK. All opinions are my own, unfortunately.
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Some little 3x3 inch portrait tapestries I’ve done recently. The one at 8epi didn’t get the detail I’d imagined, so I experimented with doing the same design but up at 12epi. They remind me of character portraits in a video game, might do some more in future! #tapestryweaving #tapestry

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From the studio table.. Little. Well pretty large felted tapestry in process. 🧶🧵🪡🧶🧵🪡🧶🧵🪡🧶🪡🧵🧵 #tapestry #weaving #color #fabric #textiles #contemporaryart #contemporarytapestry #emilysilver #collage #colorpalette #wip #artiststudio #textileart #painting #felting #feltloom #process #collage #dtla

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Last weekend I went to see the Tadek Beutlich exhibition at the Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft and I’ve kept thinking about the gorgeous pinks and oranges in this sculpture ‘Growth II’ ever since

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Flashbacks of annual planning exercises.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

A local development project called “Tapestry Croydon” is such a catfish for someone from Croydon who likes tapestry 😭 (No comment on the actual article though. Just more London property developers doing what they do…)

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Paintings by self-taught Korean Australian artist Haejin Yoo, 2020s, whose "Woman in the Bath" series explores the bathroom as a place of private sanctuary, inspired by her own experience with postpartum depression.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Today I worked out at a new powerlifting gym and ate some amazing jerk pork after 💪 🤤

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submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.

submitted 23 days ago • 32 comments

I’m watching The Substance… normally I’m ok with horror movies but today I’m learning that I’m a big wuss 🫣

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Art from September 2023 - A silly woven tartan. Every threat color was partially dyed with sharkleberry fin kool-aid 💗🏄💗 #koolaid #weaving #woven #tartan #pink #embroidery

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Is there anything more awkward than the walk back to your group after it’s your turn to do bowling 🎳

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I just hosted family for the weekend, and now I’m heading into a week-long offsite with my team from work. Tired!

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Here’s something else I finished recently- a tapestry based on the 50p building in Croydon. #tapestryweaving #weaving #croydon

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

Extremely unfun fact: math like this is one of the reasons the Nazis ended up deciding to build death camps. They decided it was cheaper and easier to murder people, rather than deal with the logistics of moving them somewhere else after they had been deported.

submitted 35 days ago • 18 comments

I’ve been trying to make a little sampler with the Maldon sea salt pattern for a while. And after three attempts I’m putting this idea on pause cos I need a break. From L to R: forgot to use an odd number of warps, lost tension on one side so aborted early, and better but still squishy looking!

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

A great résumé highlights your impact, not activities.

submitted 36 days ago • 10 comments

Tech oligarchs all be treating themselves to a little down time, as a treat

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In 1999, a great white dome rose in the heart of London, at the place where time begins. What did it hold? An artificial wonderland of dreams for a new millennium. A monumental public expenditure. A national boondoggle. "One amazing day". The Millennium Dome - a design thread. (orig tweets 2018)

submitted 102 days ago • 19 comments

Tempted to get an under desk treadmill to counteract the effects of WFH. I have a regular gym habit but my daily activity/steps is still low 😞

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My (British) dad is a fan of having marmite on toast with cottage cheese layered on top 🤢 Americans laugh at the idea of eating beans on toast, but that’s just entry-level toast eating

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I’m having my first attempt at ‘wet finishing’ a tapestry to try and solve some bulging in a section with lots of dense hatching. I’ve realised that I need some thinner brass nails to pin down the tapestry, lol. Luckily I can nail through the headers without worry about the nails disrupting yarn

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

i have the sunday scaries but like for an entire year ahead

submitted 54 days ago • 5 comments

A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.

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