This is Oktobre. They are the face of the company. as well as the wind beneath our sails. Additionally, they help morale.

This is Oktobre. They are the face of the company. as well as the wind beneath our sails. Additionally, they help morale.

T'was a dark and mildy drizzly midday, when from the heavens Oktobre came to us. They spawned a dream. A dream that took to loom. A dream that brought textiles, unlike any others, to the good people of the midwest.

Oktobre, sheep of dreams, blessed the earth and from it grew the House of Spools. Oktobre then called for mighty champions of the fleece.

Barbara was the first. The first to heed Oktobre's call, and follow their threads to the House of Spools. Knighted as the Lead Fleece Finder, she paves the way with her intricate designs and fleece findery. 

Yet, the fleece still called, mighty and strong. Stronger than one alone could corrale. So, Barbara enlisted Andrean and her Child of Many Names to join her in the House of Spools.

Thus, Andrean became the Yarn Wrangler and the Child of Many Names became the Warp Whisper and, together, the three became the Sheep Shifters.

They answered the call.

They heed Oktobre.

They shift spools to woven story, fleece to freedom.

Poems

Poems

Barbara Daiker
Work in process

When I heard the poem I could see colors emerging from the words. The colors were flowing in an irregular pattern, yet it was still a pattern. What if the lines of the poem were colors and the words in the lines the number of threads? The weft is a singular color out of the poem. Each piece uses one of the colors as the weft, making each piece a focus on one element of the poem.

That idea is where I am headed right now. I have ten colors for the warp. I analyzed the poem to identify what each of the colors mean and assigned them accordingly. Using an 8/2 cotton yarn, I am measuring the warp for ten towels, one using each of the colors as the weft. The poem is about social justice; the silence and hidden aspects of our society, especially for our black citizens.

I've started winding the warp for the loom. It is 11 yards long for each thread of yarn. I like the way the colors are lining up next to each other, especially the pop of red.

Towels and poems

Towels and poems
The first show

The first show
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