Category: Tapestry Weavings
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Weaving in Progress – Ron
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Weaving in Progress – Lukas
This is my weaving in progress as of 9/23/21
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Weaving in Progress – Aaron
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Weaving in Progress – Carol
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Weaving in Progress – Rose
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.