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Killarney National Park 9

Published March 30, 2017 at 1280 × 857 in Killarney National Park 9

These Isles

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A #practicalphotography question for a skilled/pro #photographer (from a #DSLR-using #handweaver running a #tinybusiness in a #tinyhome): in this picture of #wool on my #handloom I've managed to capture both the rust colours and the blues with only my usual very limited #postproduction. This is taken inside a van with lots of #natural light from several sides and a little natural and white LED light from above. Normally whenever I photograph any kind of reds, usually outside with only natural light, they saturate beyond rectification given my limited postproduction skills/software and spoil the photo. Any recommendations? Many thanks. Eloïse

I wound this warp some time ago, thinking to #weave up half of it and sell the other half for someone else's #creativity. However it's very difficult to use because both the choice of #yarns and the #warping method are idiosyncratic of my #vanlife workarounds and #Aquarian #designsense. What's more, using the other half of it myself gives me an opportunity to test my loom for assymmetry, because it's so rare that I tie the same warp on twice (I do do that with the #rugweaving, but that tough linen warp is another kettle of fish). Above all though, I just love these colours. I don't think I've got quite the right photo, but I'm thinking of little #Celtic harbours: deep blue waters; turquoise shallows; rust red kelp; red #Drascombe sails; fluorescent orange buoys; bright blue rope... but subtler (it's probably raining).

After some moody storm greys with defiant orangey rusts, next I'm wanting to capture tealy blues with rust. #weavingtheseisles in #autumnal #coastal #colourways.

Faking that tough exterior that sometimes a #vandweller need muster - or is that a #businessperson? I think #weavers are a fairly balanced bunch - methodical and artistic both. Probably the #weaving balances us. (It's no coincidence that #basketweaving gave rise to #occupationaltherapy in the World Wars. Is #willow less infuriating than #wool? At least it doesn't tangle, unlike the wildy #Hebridean yarn with which I choose to weave #theseisles.) I took this self-portrait for Kate Stuart's article in @noserialnumber.com_magazine on weaving and green economics inspiration that I find in my attempt at a #lowimpact lifestyle and #sustainablelivelihoods. Buy the magazine, and join us on Facebook in the #greenclothcollective if you want to discuss how it takes more than just #zerowaste and #carbonneutrality (not that my business achieves either, completely) to effect a truly #sustainableeconomics.

As I make my way south, here (top middle) is a photo I took of my van on the #isleoflewis when it was bathing in Caribbean weather in the early summer. My fruitless househunt has been curtailed by wintry gales that made my already-nervewracking nomadic life a little more unsafe up there. Thankfully a flurry of early-winter sales has funded this migration, though too much movement is disruptive for business. In the article pictured here, Kate Stuart of @thephoenixgreenstore, writing in @noserialnumber.com_magazine, focuses on the poetics and the politics of my attempt at and campaign for a handmade life. Buy the magazine at www.noserialnumber.org

I just shipped this #autumnal #saddleblanket off to #SouthCarolina for a #chestnut #horse, and can't wait to see a photo of him wearing it. I have reservations about shipping my goods so far afield for #environmental reasons. I know there are one or two tiny #sailfreight companies that would reduce the #carbonimpact. I'd love local people we to be able to afford local goods, and the #GreenClothCollective exists to critique our current #racetothebottom cut throat destructive economics and help grow #sustainable alternatives so that we can all #trade without our backs up against the wall. Read a little more about this in the latest @noserialnumber.com_magazine in a lovely article, published this week, written by Kate Stuart of @thephoenixgreenstore

So at last, the bladderwrack rock #rug, #handwoven on the #isleoflewis in tweed wool from here, #Harris, #Shetland and #Donegal, is for sale in my #Etsy shop. (Copy and paste http://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/648042319) I'm resuming my winter wear #weaving of #shawls, #scarves, #snugs, #snoods, #cowls and #blankets, and starting to wend my way south with some galesome winds on my tail...

Finally managed to render the rusts in a photo of this bladderwrack rock #rug #weaving #theseisles #sustainablelivelihoods #craftfeatures #handmade

Morning light through the #seaweed on the old #Norse slipway, #isleoflewis. When the reds and oranges oversaturate in #naturephotography, I don't think it matters, but I spend HOURS trying to tame them a bit in the #weaving photos so they don't flouresce and dull all the other colours! #sustainablelivelihood #artisapaininthearse

I'm hoping you'll spot some similarities between this #rug and the wash of red #bladderwrack and luminous #sealoch I photographed the other week on the little #Norse slipway here in #Uig, #Isleoflewis. #Inspiration for many a #theseisles #handweaving methinks.

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