cutting off the loom

After almost a month's break I finished my tapestry this week. Hurray! It feels good to be done. I begrudgingly allowed Mum to take photographs of me cutting it off the loom (I dislike having my photograph taken) as I'm aware it's an interesting process to watch. Freeing a tapestry from the loom is always exciting as its textural surface changes when it's no longer under tension. It takes on a new life and catches light differently.

Cutting the tapestry free.

It was inevitable I'd end up in a silly pose. Also, I believe every artist should own a pair of work slippers to keep their toes cosy through winter.

The back of the tapestry. There are a lot of ends!

A tangled pile of yarn after emptying the last of my bobbins. Also in the photo are the thin sampler which I used to test colours for my tapestry, the original watercolour painting the tapestry is based on (next to my scissors) and the enlarged linear sketch which I had tied behind the warp on the loom so I could work directly from it.

Mum felt the slippers deserved their own photo!

The tapestry on the floor next to the original painting it came from.

Now it's just a case of giving the tapestry a title and finishing it off for display. I intend to hang it from a wooden baton, attached using velcro. (The velcro is sewn to the back of the tapestry along the top hem and the other velcro side gets stapled to the baton.)

Then it's back to the drawing board for new work!