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Stitched Poetry, a collection of natural dyed stitched and bound resist garments

A team of designers in the Clothing and Textiles Department at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda created a collection of shibori garments following a workshop introducing them to the techniques of stitched and bound resist. Remarkably, after a brief introduction to the possible ways of using basic techniques the designers created a collection theyContinue reading “Stitched Poetry, a collection of natural dyed stitched and bound resist garments”

Research on Indian Ikat influenced the development of studio ikat method

Ikat is a traditional form of yarn preparation for weaving that is practiced in many Asian and Central Asian countries as well as Central and South America and North Africa. Artisans bind selected sections of warp or weft threads before dyeing, in order to form patterns in the cloth as it is woven on theContinue reading “Research on Indian Ikat influenced the development of studio ikat method”

PATA-Printmaking and Textile Art Workshops

A group of international students convened at the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland to participate in “Resist!,” a two week intensive course on designing and dyeing cotton warps with red and yellow plant based dyes. Participants from Poland joined with other textile artists from England, Iceland, Ireland, and Spain. The academy isContinue reading “PATA-Printmaking and Textile Art Workshops”

Weaving ikat with natural dye! Summer 2014

I have been waiting to weave up the warp that I dyed in the summer of 2013. Finally, I have the time to put it on the loom and weave it up. Dyes are from madder and cosmos flowers. The weave structure requires 16 shafts and I am using 3 colors in the weft.

The Golden Fiber

Wendy Weiss The Golden Fiber Bamboo (courtesy of Art Factory); spray paint; nylon monofilament In 1881, the Dolphin Manufacturing Company, also known as the Dolphin Jute Mill, was the largest jute factory in the United States. It processed over two thousand tons of jute, used 3,376 spindles to produce yarn, 86 looms to weave cloth,Continue reading “The Golden Fiber”

The Everyday Interests of Young People

Exhibition by Jay Kreimer and Wendy Weiss at the Tugboat Gallery in Lincoln, NE. Sept. 7-29, 2012. The Everyday Interest of Young People is about mixing, and watching, and at least three species of containment. Feel like the walls are closing in? The two of us are combining a number of our controlled obsessions, andContinue reading “The Everyday Interests of Young People”