My Quipu (a blog post) Last year, something new entered my weaving. I began to make woven jewellery. I think any tapestry weaver has had this idea, which is quite straightforward: weave a rectangle, attach to it a piece of cord, and you get a necklace. But I wanted something more complicated. This piece of jewellery was inspired by the Inca knotted string accounting system, quipu. An interweaving of ropes and knots. That’s how my Quipu necklace was created. Essentially, it’s a mini-tapestry of irregular shape. I wanted a shade of gold, so I used thin copper wire along with cotton, hemp, and lurex threads. The texture of interwoven ropes was created by leather strips, thick cotton and jute. I decorated the necklace with amber and beads.

Computer messages My program at some point copies certain files and creates some directories. It gives the user the following kind of messages: "Data size to be copied: 1234 MB. Directories to be created: 12." Are the above messages okay? Are shorter (and as much understandable) wordings possible? The reason why I write it like this is that I don't want to deal with the plurals of words like "byte" or "directory", which can be difficult in different languages.

Just a perfect day Today was a quiet day. My elder son, 12, had been driven to his friend’s birthday party, so my younger one, 8, had no one to squabble with. We went roller-skating. I am addicted to it, just like I am to weaving. Roller-skated to a “state of grace”. As far back as yesterday I planned a little photo shoot. Remembered Eldar Ryazanov’s words. This Russian film director said that great architects work for him as artists because their buildings appear in his films. An immodest comparison came to mind: I am Ryazanov and this summer with its flowers surrounding us is ancient architecture. I brought a piece of flower landscape home and took a few shots of flower-and-bag still lifes. Then the bags were abandoned and I was shooting just flowers. And was I happy!