Association Summer School 2021
In August we attended the Association Summer School, this year held at Writtle Agricultural College, just outside Chelmsford. Even though the gardens were full of weeds due to Covid neglect, we could appreciate the thoughtfully planned and often exotic plantings, and cosy nooks. We both took the tapestry weaving course with Alastair Duncan. There were 15 in the group of mixed abilities including beginners. The course was aimed at translating sound to a design. Most of Monday was spent viewing examples of Alastair's tapestries working with sound and listening to sounds he had recorded together with pieces of music. Firstly he asked us to write down on paper the thoughts that came into our heads while listening, and then to think of how we could translate that into a piece of tapestry. We then warped up our frames. At the end of the day a few decided this wasn’t for them, so they did their own thing with help and advice from Alastair. It was interesting to see how each person i