When I first started The Crafty Creek I used to have a Poem of the Month, choosing one of my favourite poems. After a year or so I decided it had run it’s course, but today I came across a poem I thought some of you would like. It was written about 600 years ago by Kabir, ‘the Mystic Poet’
I think it’s beautiful and I now have ideas buzzing round my head for an embroidery…
The Weaver
How many know of the weaver?
Who spreads his warp
From earth to sky.
The two beams of his loom
The sun and the moon.
Two shuttles filled with
A thousand threads
Spread lengthwise.
Watch him as he weaves,
Karma with Karma
Woven with unwoven threads
How well this weaver weaves.
I discovered it in a fascinating article on the Textile Artist website. Bren Boardman describes how he uses sketchbooks as a way of developing his ideas. Sketchbooks are something Embroiderers Guild are keen for us to use but it’s a very new concept to me and as yet I haven’t really had the time to start one. If you follow the link you’ll see how the poem inspired him to produce a stunning piece of textile art.
It reminds me of the Carol King song, ‘Tapestry’, that’s another one I’ve always wanted to embroider in some way…
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That is a beautiful poem ~ and a stunning piece of weaving in the photo! I think that I don’t know much poetry, until I think back over my life and see the poems that are there. So I have been trying to read more poetry. I stumbled across a website that emails a poem everyday and I try hard to read each one before I hit the delete button! Yours is one of the most satisfying I have read for a while.
As for sketchbooks, it will be no surprise to know that I am a fan! I am starting the idea of having one for each project that I am working on, using it as a place where I can include my thoughts, inspirations, photos of samples and works-in-progress and so on. Which reminds me that I need to do a post on it….
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What a brilliant poem, I love those analogies 😊
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Weaving seems suited to all sorts of wonderful metaphors for life–great poem!
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This makes me think of a Navajo woman, sitting before her loom. The words are so picturesque!
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