I weave to stretch my mind and nourish my soul.

If my mind, hands, and looms also create something beautiful and useful, my efforts are more than rewarded.

Tablet weaving has nourished my soul ever since the early 70s when I first learned of its existence “… during a workshop on two totally unrelated subjects: rugs and loom-controlled garments. As if that were not enough for a new weaver to digest in three days, on the second day, almost as an afterthought, the workshop leader pulled out a deck of cards and had us trim them into squares, punch holes in the four corners, and warp them with cheap yarn, according to a simple, threaded-in pattern. Soon we were turning the tablets and, almost miraculously, that awful warp turned into a wonderfully patterned band.” Marilyn Emerson Holtzer, Interview with a TWIST Founder, TWIST, 8 (Spring 2012). OK, the warp was still awful.

In the mid 70s, I began experimenting with six-hole tablets and worked out the details for weaving diagonals, two-threads wide, in three colors, a technique I dubbed “Diagonal Triple-Turn.” I described this and another technique that I developed for creating double-woven and double-faced bands using six-hole tablets in two articles published in 1980 (Fiber Publications 2 and 4). Recently, I have been experimenting with eight-hole tablets and two-hole tablets. I’ve learned that greater is sometimes less and fewer is sometimes more.