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Weaving in Progress – Rose
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These tapestries are done by Brooklyn-based artist Erin M. Riley. She explores the themes of sexuality and trauma through detailed recreation of selfies of her own tatted body, her collection of possessions, and screenshots of sexual media. She handlooms all her tapestry using salvaged and hand dyed yarn to create this massive tapestry images.
Following is the website of the artist:
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Weaving of Interest – Ron
These weavings are part of a work titled “Pattern : Code” by Ahree Lee presented at the Women’s Center for Creative Work in LA in 2019. The materials used appear to be common cotton and canvas.
The weavings acknowledge the stereotype that weaving is “women’s work”, but also unexpectedly that historically women have been important influences in computer programming.
The history of weaving and computing is surprisingly intertwined, with the punch cards used by Jacquard’s loom inspiring the first computers by Charles Babbage. The first weaving titled “Ada” after Ada Lovelace, Babbage’s muse and collaborator, is a play on this little piece of history, mimicking the punch card and falling into a weave.
In “Disrupting the Industry”, Lee uses the weaving as a visualization or chart of the decline of women studying computer science. The piece also mimics pixels, but utilizes an opposing woven stripe to represent the growing gender gap in the industry.
These weavings have no functional use, but are an interesting play and juxtaposition between the physical and digital/electronic medium, with women centered as the connection between the two. As a future maker with textiles, it reminds me of the possibility of weaving to appear like pixels and data points, but also a warning to not fall back into 2D digital representations of art.
References:
https://hyperallergic.com/523392/ahree-lee-womens-center-for-creative-work/
https://womenscenterforcreativework.com/events/exhibition-opening-pattern-code-by-ahree-lee/
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Weaving of interest-Claire Yoon
This weaving is called Aneurism and it was made by Terri Friedman. The materials used are wool, acrylic, cotton, hemp, jute, metallic fibers .The weaving resemble the disheveled elegance of the bright and busy Coogi sweaters popular in the 1990s. They are “unstable, uncertain, and unmonumental,” she explained—humble, fragile qualities that inspire Friedman. “The work does not strive for perfection in a traditional craft sense, but more for emotion and storytelling in an abstract way,” she said. The weaving is about 102 x 96 in and the weaving was made in 2018. This weaving is used as a wall hanging sculpture in a museum.
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3D Weaving – Heeyun
The Woven Cosmos exhibition presented work by the artist and industrial designer Hella Jongerius earlier this year in Berlin, Germany. Jongerius’ work examines the possibilities in which the textile industry can become more sustainable and thus poses the idea of using weaving to create 3D structures that can be used in architecture and even in sustainable energy technology. Using a multiaxial loom, she has woven several prototypes, such as bricks, foldable cubes, and solar fibers that can unfurl when the sun shines. The kinds of materials used are not listed. However, the focus of these works shown is more on the possibilities this new way of weaving brings and on the exploration of how the weaving itself can provide enough strength and rigidity without the need of additional structural support. Although 3D weaving is still a newly developing practice, these woven structures show a lot of promise and hope that the ancient art of weaving can still be transformed and adapted to address our current, ever-changing society.
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Weaving of Interest – Yewon
This weaving is a Korean traditional weaving piece. It has a traditional Korean pattern embroidered. This piece is often used to make Hanbok (a Korean traditional cloth). These patterns usually include stories. Each flower and animal have meanings and the pattern overall represents a story.
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Weaving of Interest – Sophia
This weaving is a floral wall hanging. It was made by Alyssa Ki in 2020. It uses a combination of colors and patterns to make a flower boutique. The lighter colors look like the flower petals while the darker colors look like the stem/leaves. This is created by using techniques like weaving, macrame, needle-felt, and crochet.
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Weaving of Interest – Carol
This weaving is a fragment of an Upper Rhenish tapestry. It was made by an unknown artist in Basel, Switzerland. The materials used are wool on linen, as it is a tapestry weave. The weaving shows a mythical, lionlike beast being dragged on a leash, with flowers and plants growing in the background. The weaving is about beasts referenced in the Physiologus and medieval bestiaries. Such beasts represented vices, and the leashed beast in the tapestry symbolizes taming lustful impulses. The weaving was made circa 1420-30. This weaving was used as both decoration and insulation in homes.
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Weaving of Interest – Lukas
This weaving by Claire Zeisler, named “Hanging”, is a product of the Bauhaus weaving workshop. This weaving was made in 1950. It mainly uses tan and red, with the red almost bleeding out of the skin-colored fabric. A large part of the warp is exposed towards the bottom, resembling the “innards” of the piece. In addition, a tangle of objects — a glass ornament encased in netting, a skein of golden yarn, an embroidery hoop — are attached to the piece. This is intended to be used as a wall hanging.
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Weaving of Interest – Susan
This weaving is called the Aglauros’s Vision of the Bridal Chamber of Herse, from the Story of Mercury and Herse. It was made by Giovanni Battista Lodi da Cremona. The weavings shows a story which depicts the seventh, and the second to last episode in the story of an ill-fated love affair between Herse and Mercury. The weaving is about the union between Mercury and how her sister might appear here. The vision of this is shown in an exquisitely sumptuous re-edition of the tapestry series, heavy with precious thread and woven with a virtuoso display of different surface effects. It was made in 1570 ca. And the weaving is used as a tapestry set.