First Published in No Serial Number Magazine, Issue 14, Autumn 2018
Imagine waking up to the breath-taking view of a white beach, and the clear aqua waters of the wild Atlantic Ocean, or to the ancient Connemara mountains and the widest, most expressive skies you’ve ever seen. Bright yellow pops of gorse amongst the peat brown earth and the purple heather of the Highlands. The deep, velvet green of Brittany’s oldest woodlands. Imagine walking every morning to absorb the land and the colour, then setting to work, right there amongst the hills and the woods and the sea and the sky, weaving it all in to a cloth as unique as every passing moment in this breath taking and changeable landscape.
Eloïse Sentito, owner of These Isles, is a travelling weaver, musician, teacher, wordsmith and maker-activist who in 2014 gave up a settled life in Devon for one of freedom and autonomy, journeying around the Anglo-Celtic Circle in her second hand coach built camper-come-workshop with her hound dog Murphy and a folding Ashford beech table loom. Her road, thus far, has taken her from her childhood landscape of Devon, to West Cork and Mull, to Brittany and Galway, to The Western Isles and Highlands of Scotland. She has a connection with these landscapes and all their glorious hues, that seeps into the warp and the weft of the cloth that she weaves.
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