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Complexity The 2022 show of handwoven art from the Complex Weavers.
These are great, thanks for posting. I especially like String Dance with Bubbles and the Rusty Promise.
posted by paduasoy at 1:44 PM on July 11, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by paduasoy at 1:44 PM on July 11, 2022 [1 favorite]
Very cool! Thanks for posting. My fibrecraft of choice is knitting, but I enjoy seeing beautiful examples of weaving. I particularly liked Sketchbook Sky and Game of Crones.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 5:50 PM on July 11, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 5:50 PM on July 11, 2022 [1 favorite]
These are amazing. I wish I could find men's ties that had colors and patterns like these.
posted by freakazoid at 5:57 PM on July 11, 2022
posted by freakazoid at 5:57 PM on July 11, 2022
The story behind Rusty Promise is really moving - Sandra Rude had an unexpected and rapid decline in health, but asked her husband/widower to weave her last design. Which he figured out how to do- On a TC-2 Jaquard!!! And it’s a pretty cool design even without that. I really like the color interactions.
posted by janell at 5:57 PM on July 11, 2022 [4 favorites]
posted by janell at 5:57 PM on July 11, 2022 [4 favorites]
“ This piece was my first weaving ever. A few days before her passing, Sandra made me promise to weave her final Jacquard design. This was a frightening promise as I had never woven anything. In addition, she couldn’t tell me where exactly to find the design files on her computer. She told me simply to look for files of a rusty metal screen.
I didn’t find the loom control file until after her death, and even then I didn’t have an image with the color information for the order of the three weft shuttles. The first weaving attempt looked totally wrong, so I searched her computer again and found the color design. Using that information, it finally looked like a rusty metal screen, and I could honor my promise to Sandra.
I would not have been able to accomplish this weaving without the support, instruction, and encouragement of Kathy Alexander.”
What a moving piece. I also wasn’t aware that she had passed, and have enjoyed her work for some time. What a loss but also what a wonderful last collaborative project. May we all have such an impact.
posted by Bottlecap at 6:09 PM on July 11, 2022 [5 favorites]
I didn’t find the loom control file until after her death, and even then I didn’t have an image with the color information for the order of the three weft shuttles. The first weaving attempt looked totally wrong, so I searched her computer again and found the color design. Using that information, it finally looked like a rusty metal screen, and I could honor my promise to Sandra.
I would not have been able to accomplish this weaving without the support, instruction, and encouragement of Kathy Alexander.”
What a moving piece. I also wasn’t aware that she had passed, and have enjoyed her work for some time. What a loss but also what a wonderful last collaborative project. May we all have such an impact.
posted by Bottlecap at 6:09 PM on July 11, 2022 [5 favorites]
Must... resist... temptation to take up weaving...
posted by bile and syntax at 7:24 AM on July 12, 2022
posted by bile and syntax at 7:24 AM on July 12, 2022
One of these days I'm gonna see a post like this and think "I should send this to janell" and then not have it turn out to be posted by janell.
posted by cortex at 9:28 AM on July 12, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by cortex at 9:28 AM on July 12, 2022 [1 favorite]
Gorgeous! Having tried simple weaving (4 shaft baby wolf, plain weave only).... this.... is so insane and advanced that I don't have words.
Just getting the warp on the loom given how fine some of those threads are, not to mention the color interactions or some of the double weave 3d sculptures - is worthy of awards before they got anywhere near the final product!
posted by esoteric things at 5:16 PM on July 12, 2022
Just getting the warp on the loom given how fine some of those threads are, not to mention the color interactions or some of the double weave 3d sculptures - is worthy of awards before they got anywhere near the final product!
posted by esoteric things at 5:16 PM on July 12, 2022
These are pretty cool design, even if I don't know anything about weaving. I did make a simple loom for my daughter at one time, though.
I then had a look at the TC-2 Jaquard mentioned by janell and it looks like it's manufactured around 10 km from my childhood home!
posted by Harald74 at 12:38 AM on July 14, 2022
I then had a look at the TC-2 Jaquard mentioned by janell and it looks like it's manufactured around 10 km from my childhood home!
posted by Harald74 at 12:38 AM on July 14, 2022
My mother loved these. She's a spinner, dyer, knitter, weaver sort of person. Made her own loom once too
posted by mdoar at 4:00 PM on July 15, 2022
posted by mdoar at 4:00 PM on July 15, 2022
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