{"id":239,"date":"2008-10-10T07:10:53","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T12:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2008-10-10T07:10:53","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T12:10:53","slug":"a-weaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"A Weaver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I turned on my computer this morning to learn that Peter Collingwood, master weaver and textile specialist, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petercollingwood.co.uk\/\">died unexpectedly<\/a> yesterday, in his studio at home.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d never had the pleasure of meeting Peter in person, but we&#8217;d corresponded a number of times over the years. He wrote the masterworks on tablet weaving, and rug weaving, and as if those weren&#8217;t enough, Peter resurrected sprang, and introduced ply-split braiding to a wider Western audience. He was a fantastic scholar, a writer of clear explanations, a weaver of great skill, and above all someone who sought to <i>understand<\/i> what he was producing. Peter was always willing to answer questions and exchange ideas, and through his writings and discussions he was a tremendous influence on me, and on many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I turned on my computer this morning to learn that Peter Collingwood, master weaver and textile specialist, died unexpectedly yesterday, in his studio at home. I&#8217;d never had the pleasure of meeting Peter in person, but we&#8217;d corresponded a number of times over the years. He wrote the masterworks on tablet weaving, and rug weaving, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ponderings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}