My name is John Mullarkey, and this web site was developed for two reasons:
-to help me keep track of my projects, and gains in experience and methods, and
-to share what I have learned with other weavers.

Please click on a link at left to continue.

2/27/08
Wow, first post of the new year. Sorry about that. Thank goodness the holidays are done, and I can get back to doing all of the things I put off until after the holiday gifts were made. This is going to be a busy fiber year. I hope yours is too! Convergence in June, and the Complex Weaver's conference right after that. I'm still putting together teaching materials for the latter. There will be a strong tablet weaving presence at both conferences this time around. And here I thought I could scoot by this year on fewer conferences. I had so much fun at SOAR last year that I've already put that on this year's schedule. Hope to see everyone this summer at some of these events!

11/21/07
The book is finished and available for purchase. Click on the link above for my new Tablet Weaving pattern book. Lots of great pattern drafts and pictures of how the patterns will look when woven including many variations from the same warp.

11/15/07
October and early November were certainly busy. If you haven't already heard, I'm the new editor of the TWIST journal. You can subscribe here. That first issue was very tough to put together. Thank you, thank you Janis (previous editor) for all of your assistance. The next one should be much easier. If you want to submit an article you can email it to john at tabletweavers dot org. Would love to have some great articles or pictures from you for the next issue.

SOAR was incredible! Check it out here. Met some wonderful people, learned alot, and somehow a new spinning wheel followed me home. One too many trips to the vending hall earned me a new Lendrum spinning wheel. Ah well, like looms, you can't have too many wheels, right?

Last weekend Anne Field from New Zealand was in town giving the Weaver's Guild of St. Louis a workshop on Knitted and Woven Dévoré. Dévoré is the process of combining two different types of fibers in a weaving, and then using a mild acid to burn out one of the fibers leaving the other intact. It has been awhile since Anne's been in the states, so it was a wonderful opportunity to visit with her again, and I had fun learning the technique. I've got some interesting ideas about how to incorporate it into tablet weaving. Stay tuned for those developments. Here's my completed workshp project.

You can see my twice woven basket experiment in the projects list to the left. I think I need to explore this further. Maybe different shapes. I definetely want to plan the band patterns to interact more strongly in the next one.

That's enough rambling for now.

10/04/07
Sorry I've been lax with the updates to this site. Here's the latest news though:

• Off to SOAR for a week in Bellaire, MI. I've never been to a conference devoted solely to spinning, so this should be interesting. I'll be taking Sara Lamb's Silk Ribbons workshop. She has a wonderful blog here.
• After SOAR is a meditation retreat. Try to get centered. Find my creative spark. All of that metaphysical stuff.
• Just putting the finishing touches on a pattern book I'm hoping to have available for sale before the holiday season. The new bands on the site are woven examples from the book.
• I'm now the editor for TWIST, and I'm working very hard on getting that first issue finished. By the way, feel free to submit articles. I'm always looking for content.
• And I'm still trying to get a couple of pieces finished I can submit to the Small Expressions exhibit at Convergence next year.

Feel free to email me at Edgarpoe64@hotmail.com

Much of the photography on this site was done by: Studio Menard

Some of the photos are my poor attempts at photography. I know, stick to weaving.