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Silvia Heyden Weaving Notes and Nature

Today was a beautiful cool, spring Carolina Day.  My dear daughter (DD) suggested we meet for lunch at the Nasher Museum in Durham and see the  Silvia Heyden exhibit.   Little did DD know that Silvia Heyden is a weaving hero to me.  I have seen and blogged about a prior  exhibit  here.  Read all the books she wrote and watched the documentary  A Weaverly Path  many times. Today's exhibit was small but exquisite.  The museum and cafe are wonderful and time with DD, it doesn't get any better! Hurricane 1962 It is hard to imagine this tapestry as an early work of Silvia's.  It is so innovative.  Silvia coined the phrase "weaverly path."  She was not interested in weaving a traditional representative tapestry.  She focused on movement and fluidity.  She was a talented violinist and musicality and rhythms informed her weaving.   Omega 1972 Although born in Switzerland and educated at the Bauhaus, Silvia's ta...

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