But have you ever felt the near-limitless freedom of designing in fabric? I don’t have to tell you how satisfying it is to make something with your hands, especially something that will get a lot of use. When it comes to that sweet cross between satisfaction and utility, fabric is as...
As the window was awkwardly placed near the ceiling, I needed to make a valance, so I asked a friend back in Hong Kong to go buy a bit more of the same silk and send it to me. This was all within the first year of leaving so it was easily done. Dug up some old snapshots (!
There are new exhibitions still to open and other new exhibitions that are now open and worthy of discussion here, but I begin with a note on an small but colorful and (I hope) engaging exhibition that I curated. It is titledPicturing Change, Seeing Continuity: Hmong Story Cloths. In it,...
On the elongated (banana-shaped) pillows depicted onARV21645=BAPD203241 a loop is found on the corner. The shape of the pillows and the loop may indicate circular weaving or sprang. I would like to thank Dr Kalliope Sarri for discussing these techniques with me in detail and providin...
Additional process steps (e.g., cutting and stacking) are necessary to obtain the final near-net-shape geometry. New technological and conceptual approaches, for example, using industrial robots, adaptive molds, additive manufacturing processes, or tailored fiber placement technology, are powerful ...
Welcome to the enchanting world of Textile Art, where every thread and stitch is a creation. This world is not only my passion but also my life's purpose. I feel fortunate to have the opportunity to share my love of Textile Art with people from all corne
The Tomra NIR (Near Infrared) sorting technology is also key to the process and capable of recognizing and differentiating various types of textiles in a first step. A second optical sorter is added for further cleaning of impurities. Towards a textile circular economy ...
Old buildings are also interesting to me. I’ve been doing a lot of farmhouse style buildings but I would like to try some different ones. If you could place your work in any shop, website, museum right now, where would it be? Well any would be good!!! But my favourites would ...
Plenty of people were interested in going with me. However, they had other things they wanted to do first. I was not going to take a chance on that. (Good thing I went then because they got hung up and never made it.) So, off I went to ride the busses in the countryside by my...
Etruscan dancers in the Tomb of the Triclinium near Tarquinia, Italy (470 BCE). /Photocourtesy The Yorck Project, Wikimedia Commons The clothing of ancient Italy, like that of ancient Greece, is well known from art, literature & archaeology. Although aspects of Roman clothing have had an en...