This Is How I Go When I Go Like This : Weaving and Spinning as Metaphor

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• ISBN13: 9781931499767
• ISBN10: 1931499764
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Interweave Pr

Summary

This collection of Linda Collier Ligon's essays inHandwovenmagazine traces the ups and downs, joys and trials, and people and events of the weaving world over the last 25 years. In these essays textiles are the window to the world, and questions such asWhat does it mean to have a loom-shaped life?What's warp, what's weft?andWhat are the interlacements?are explored with precise, probing insight that is always engaging. Whether urging readers to act, describing her battles with a fine linen yarn, or recounting her computer's spell-check replacements for weaving terms, these essays from the founder of Interweave Press will enchant, amuse, and delightg.

Author Biography

Linda Collier Ligon is author of Homespun, Handknit. She is the founder and president of Interweave Press, which publishes six magazines and has more than a 100 books in print. She lives in Loveland, Colorado.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vi
Introduction	1	(4)
Strike Anywhere: An Editor's Note	5	(2)
Anniversary Essay	7	(4)
Essays
Tools	11	(4)
Day's Blanket	15	(4)
Defeat	19	(4)
Old Stuff	23	(4)
Time Machine	27	(4)
A Meditation on Ric-Rac	31	(4)
True Confessions	35	(6)
Beginning Weaving	41	(6)
Passing It On	47	(6)
Odds and Ends	53	(4)
Coming Out Even	57	(4)
Old Thread	61	(6)
This Is How I Go When I Go Like This	67	(4)
Keepers	71	(4)
New Key to Weavers	75	(4)
Time and Thread	79	(4)
In Praise of Thumbs	83	(4)
Working Life	87	(4)
Stringing Along	91	(4)
I Love My Computer	95	(4)
Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weaved	99	(4)
Ravelings	103	(4)
Yarn Confessions	107	(4)
Weaving Honor Roll	111	(4)
A Loom-Shaped Life	115	(4)
Go, Dog, Go	119	(4)
How I Became an Ugly American	123	(4)
Kid's Weaving	127	(4)
When I Am an Old Woman	131	(4)
Weft Crossing Warp	135	(4)
On the Edge	139	(4)
Index	143