Writing, weaving,
and the work in between.
Essays on making and attention. Weaving projects from a floor loom in North Oxfordshire. Occasional notes on music, practice, and what it means to own the direction you’re heading.
Recent writing
On learning to warp a loom
There is a particular quality of attention required when threading 400 ends through heddles, one by one. Not concentration exactly — more like the suspension of everything else.
Making & attention · March 2026
What the Grateful Dead understood about time
Every performance was an argument that the present moment is the only place music actually exists. Not the recording, not the setlist — the room, right now, with all its accidents.
Music & practice · February 2026
The Bach inventions as a practice
Two voices in conversation, neither subordinate to the other. I have been playing the same fifteen bars for three weeks and I am not bored. That seems like information.
Practice · January 2026
Recent weaving
Double-width blanket in Harrisville Highland
A full-width blanket woven in two halves and joined at the fold. Twill structure, natural wools, slow work. The kind of project that teaches you patience whether you want it to or not.
Floor loom · In progress
Shadow weave sampler
Shadow weave produces its pattern through colour placement rather than structure — two alternating colours, two alternating treadles. The geometry arrives without you forcing it.
Table loom · Completed
Diamond twill in JC Rennie Supersoft
Working through colour placement using Manhattan distance logic on a diamond grid. The yarn is extraordinarily soft. The mathematics keeps surprising me.
Floor loom · Completed