TAROT + RUGS: a can't miss combo.

Beginning in December, an exhibition of art rugs will be opening in Shelburne, Vermont (USA).  The exhibit's title is:  "23 Artists Hook the Major Arcana."  The theme was conceived by two inspired rug artists, Michele Micarelli and Loretta Scena.  I hope you click on their links and look at their previous work.  (These ain't your grandma's hooked rugs, that's for sure.)

The exhibit combines two of my favorite things:  rug hooking and the tarot.  I have a rug in the show; it's likely going to be the plainest rug there, because it's the last rug (the last tarot card) in the Major Arcana, The World, and I wanted my design to integrate and summarize the rest of the exhibit.  Alas, I do not have a picture of my rug yet.  When I do, I'll happily post it, but I did put up a few "sneak preview" partial photos here and here, before I was able to talk about the show (when it was still hush-hush).

The show is opening at this gallery.  After it finishes its run, it will travel to other locations and venues for as long as there is interest.  (if you are reading this before it opens December 4, 2015 or after it closes January 22, 2016, you will have to SCROLL DOWN to see the information about the show and the photograph of one of the extraordinary rugs.)

And they will be extraordinary.  I have seen two of them (one is on the gallery site) and am already drooling with anticipation until I can see the rest of them.

AND NOW, ON A TOTALLY DIFFERENT TOPIC:
Here's a quick picture relating to what I hope to be doing tomorrow.

Yup, more yarn soaking...with luck, more dyeing will happen in the morning.  More test colors for the Moon & Clouds rug.

I want to create a lighter version of two of the colors I produced last week, and experiment with new colors. 

It's true that I dyed all the background for my tarot rug as recently as last autumn (see the links above for photos of that), but that was the first dyeing I'd had a chance to do for decades.  Now that I'm back in the dyepots, the bug has really struck and I can't wait to play with color again.  I'm hoping to create a veritable explosion of color as I move forward.

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COLOR QUOTES:

"Purplish brown? Let's agree it 
is a color so bad we all flee it
it has no good use
so let's name it Puce
from the sound we make when we see it."
(Darby Bannard)

A quote about Georgia O'Keeffe's work:

"...The last mad throb of red just as it turns green; the ultimate shriek of orange calling all the blues of heaven for relief and support... each color almost regains the fun it must have felt within itself on forming the first rainbow."
(Charles Demuth)