Namesake Runner

Christine picked colors for this runner based on the film adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake, which features Ashima in India as a young girl in a beautiful pink sari and her later in life in the United States wearing a toned-down beige cardigan. Use your rigid-heddle loom and pick-up-stick patterns to weave this textured cotton runner.

Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake is one of the few books whose movie adaptation Christine loved as well. In particular, she adored the character of Ashima, and found that the most arresting images in the movie were of her as a young girl when she met Ashoke for the first time, resplendent in her pink sari, and then in the United States, as a wife and mother, in her beige cardigan. This runner is the result of Christine playing with those two colors in various pick-up-stick sequences to create a textural and visually dense motif that represents these two very different, but intertwined elements of Ashima’s life.

About: Christine Jablonski is an unabashed color enthusiast, living in a drafty New England farmhouse with two rescue mutts and more looms than may be healthy.

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