Both of us are seniors here, so we wanted to focus our encoded cloth project around our past and current lives, thinking on how we would be able to bring these hobbies/interests into our “adult” lives. We chose to create a quilt using applique and embroidery techniques, and decided to include some piecing as well …
For our encoded cloth project, we focused on the theme of artificiality, the destruction of the natural world and its substitution with the plastic and unreal. We made a quilt out of muslin and cotton batting, two simple materials made of natural fibers, and covered this canvas with black and white representations of leaves and …
Final Weaving Margot Gersing I did not go into this process with a specific plan or idea in mind. I decided to approach it like this because I really enjoyed the freedom and exploration that I had when I was making the sample. Even though I didn’t have an explicit direction for how I wanted …
Intention After completing my sample weaving, I knew that I wanted to create something with more intention, and to make something that was more personal to me. While spending time at Creative Reuse to get supplies and looking at all of the materials and the colors of yarn that they had, I started to think …
I knew very early on after the weaving project was introduced that I wanted to make some representation of a unicorn, partly because I really appreciated their mythicality as a child, and partly because I was inspired by the delicacy of the Unicorn Tapestries. My original idea was to create a more classical type of …
Intention My weaving is a multi-generational gardenscape (or softscape). I was thinking about my Russian peasant heritage – in particular, how I position myself in relation to my mother and Garden Grandmother. The weaving is a very literal landscape interpretation of greenscape practices that connect my mother’s side of the family. I had constructed the …
Final Weave in Full. Intention In both my sample and final weaving I sought to explore the techniques that allow me to manipulate the material as a means to explore soft texture and hard geometry. My weavings continue to play with high contrast, as well as more subtle detailing as a means to explore and …
For my weaving project, my inspiration was to find a way to showcase what this time of year means to me and how much progress has been made in the last year. In my life, I have numerous anniversaries of bad events in the first half of October. I chose to honor my grandpa’s passing …
Intention: My starting inspiration was water, and I tried to recreate that in my sample weaving, making small, subtle changes that were inconspicuous along with larger, more chaotic sections. I especially enjoyed the different shades of blue I was able ton incorporate into the weaving along with splashes of color, which represented oceanic flora and …
My intention for my final weaving was in direct response to the sample weaving I had made previously: specifically, simplify, be balanced but not symmetrical, and make no revisions. The sample weaving was a practice in shape and the illusion of distance. The shapes woven into the fabric existed in what I imagined to be …