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Silvery Threads Winner: Rita Parniczky

13 October 2014 Competitions / Exhibitions / General
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X-RayVaults 2014As previously reported on The Weave Shed, The Costume and Textile Association for Norfolk Museums (C&TA) was  celebrating its 25th Anniversary in October 2014 by holding an open, juried textiles competition and exhibition on the theme of  “Silvery Threads”. The exhibition was held in The Hostry, Norwich Cathedral, was from 2nd to 13th October 2014.
The idea of the Silvery Threads Competition developed from looking through the early journals of the C&TA, when there was often an annual competition.

Rita Parniczky was announced the overall  winner of  the Geoffrey Squire Memorial Competition and also won the wall hung pieces 1st place award. Out of 136 entries from all over the world, 65 were selected by an independent panel for this Competition Exhibition. Entries were judged without the knowledge of the names or where the entries came from. The selection includes entries from Norfolk, Suffolk and other parts of Great Britain as well as New Zealand and the United States of America. Continue reading →

Texprint Winners: Paris

22 September 2014 Competitions / Exhibitions / General / New weave developments / News
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2014-09-17 18.30.46-7On 17 September 2014, Nino Cerruti presented prestigious prizes to the exceptional British-trained textile design graduates selected to exhibit under the auspices of Texprint at Indigo/Première Vision.

Nino Cerruti said, “The world is full of crazy artists – but we are industrial designers. We must be artists and designers.

The creative and imagination skills need to translate back into clothing and real applications. It is so pleasing to see that the next generation of designers selected to exhibit at Texprint 2014 understand the commercial imperatives that underpin successful design.”

Eminent representatives from the worlds of fashion, interiors, specialist textiles and retailing selected four highly talented graduates from British universities for prizes in the Colour, Pattern, Space and Body categories. 24 designers were in contention for the Texprint prizes, as well as The Woolmark Company Texprint Award and, new for 2014, the Miroglio Texprint Award for Digital Innovation. lululemon athletica had already announced the names of 2 winners. The winning designers each received £1000.00

Barbara Kennington, Chairman, Texprint said: “This exciting new edition of the Texprint showcase at Indigo/PV offers both fashion and interiors industries the opportunity to view the collections of rigorously selected ‘best of the best’ graduate textile designers, all trained in Britain. Their work is unique, exclusive, totally fresh; as designers each is highly talented, professional, and ready to take the textile industry by storm!”Nino Cerruti (Lanificio Fratelli Cerruti) and Agi Mdumulla and Sam Cotton of menswear brand Agi & Sam judge The Woolmark Company Texprint Award (2)

TEXPRINT® AWARDS 2014
The Texprint prizes were awarded as follows:Space: Georgia Fisher
Georgia Fisher completed an MA in Textiles: Weave at the Royal College of Art, having previously gained a BA in weave at Central St Martins. She was awarded bursaries in 2013 and 2014 from The Worshipful Company of Weavers and won the 2014 Jaeger competition. She gained work experience with The Jackson. Continue reading →

Exhibition: Common Threads

16 September 2014 Company Profile / Events / Exhibitions / General / New weave developments
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British Council, Common Thread exhibition, photograph by simon mills high 8 The Anou Residencies
In a new British Council residency programme, UK-based designer Sabrina Kraus López  lived with Anou artisans in the Atlas Mountains, collaborating on new designs and approaches based on the Amazigh’s traditional weaving techniques.

Over a one-month period Sabrina worked with six artisans to create the Common Thread collection, a series of bespoke hand woven rugs inspired by the Berber’s heritage, surroundings and personal stories.

Through exchanging stories and knowledge, six-limited edition contemporary rugs have been created that each celebrate and draw inspiration from the artisan’s own culture and personal background.

These rugs also form the basis of an exhibition specially curated by Faculty (Moira Lascelles and Kieren Jones) at Designjunction during the London Design Festival 2014. The exhibition will tell the story of the residency and the rugs and will include a film by Simon Mills and a publication designed by Laura Gordon.
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Texprint Weavers: Indigo, Paris

15 September 2014 Competitions / Events / Exhibitions / General / New weave developments / News
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Texprint2013-logo-with382strapline_2spotcolTexprint interviews, mentors and promotes the UK’s most talented textile design graduates with the support of industry professionals worldwide.

Those selected are introduced to buyers, press and sponsors at the Texprint London event, and at Europe and Asia’s leading yarn and textile exhibitions.

Texprint is entirely funded by the generous sponsorship of industry and by British charitable foundations.  Their sponsors believe wholeheartedly in supporting textile design talent and in encouraging design innovation and excellence. Source: Texprint website

The following 2014 weave graduates were selected, initially exhibited their work in July in London and will each have a stand to show their designs  within ‘Texprint Village’ Hall 5 at Indigo trade Fair, Hall 5, Stand 5Y60, Première Vision Pluriel, Parc d’Expositions de Paris-Nord. Sept 16th – 18th 2015.

The winners of the awards will be announced in Paris on 17th Sept 2014 and the awards will be presented by Nino Cerruti, Designer and Head of the Biella based Textile Mill, Lanificio Fratelli Cerruti.

Texprint Weavers

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Zanas’ work is described as contemporary woven textiles that mediate between concepts of social and digital impact, to facilitate innovative design for the body.

Zana is inspired by research into material innovation, and the crossovers between textiles and other disciplines, including science and socio-economics; also the intricacy and interplay of different cultures, materials and traditional weaving techniques. Zana graduated from Central Saint Martins, University of The Arts London – BA (Hons) Textile Design. Zana has been selected for an internship in Como, Italy.

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Rita Parniczky: Exhibitions

5 September 2014 Exhibitions / General / New weave developments / News
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XRFC Towers-detail nat.lightRita Parniczky has been invited to lend a selection of her innovative hand woven wall pieces for the interactive  Building with Textiles exhibition at the Tilburg Textiel Musuem, The Netherlands  – This exhibition is featured on The Weave Shed .  She will be showing various works  including Pleatflow and a couple of new pieces from 2014.

Rita has previously exhibited in ‘Talent’ Designhaus,  Eindhoven, The Netherlands in 2009   with her ‘X-Ray’ Fabric.XRayFabricPleatSeries-Pleatflow detail

The Textiel Museum presents work by internationally renowned architects as well as interior projects that put textiles in the spotlight. The exhibition is open to the public between 27th September 2014 and 25th January 2015.

She has also created `X-Ray Vaults` works  for the competition Silvery Threads run by the  Costume & Textile Association 25th Anniversary Celebration of Textiles which have been selected for an  exhibition at Norwich Cathedral from 2nd – 13th Oct 2014 Continue reading →

Tilburg Textiel Museum: Building with Textiles

4 September 2014 Exhibitions / General / New weave developments / News
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Parada Transformer 2008_ Bureau OMAIn Building with Textiles, the Tilburg Textiel Museum presents work by internationally renowned architects, as well as interior projects that put textiles in the spotlight. Building with textiles and flexible materials has aesthetic, functional and environmental advantages.
Textiles are now seen as the fifth key building material alongside steel, stone, concrete and wood. The development of interior textiles with special functions – from air purification to integrated light, images and sound – offers new possibilities to design smart and interactive interiors.

The exhibition is part of a larger, long-term project initiated by the TextielMuseum and the TextielLab. It comprises an extended research and development plan spanning several years, special commissions for the museum collection and expert meetings.

Dates: 27 September 2014 – 25 January 2015

BUILDING WITH TEXTILES – the exhibition

The exhibition presents a historical overview of the type of tent-like structures that provided shelter for early nomadic tribes. A life-sized Mongolian yurt forms the heart of this section, in addition to photos and films of various types of tents and their construction.
In the 20th century, visionary engineers and architects such as Richard Buckminster Fuller, Frei Otto and Haus Rucker & Co, put lightweight constructions back on the architectural agenda. The exhibition features highlights of their work in a series of images.

In addition, the museum brings together five visionary projects by international architects. These projects reveal the great potential of textile materials and techniques in building.

Taking pride of place is Prada Transformer (2008) see image above, by renowned Dutch agency OMA. Commissioned by Italian fashion label Prada, the structure is made up of a steel frame covered with an elastic PVC membrane. It can be positioned in four different ways, with the help of a crane. Each position serves a different purpose, encompassing everything from an exhibition space for fashion to a cinema. The remaining four projects are by Kennedy & Violich Architecture, DO|SU Studio Architecture, SL Rasch and SOMA.

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The Blodwen Heritage Blanket Project

3 September 2014 Company Profile / Exhibitions / General / New weave developments
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Blodwen 010 _hiBlodwen, the on-line lifestyle brand specialising in the design and manufacture of hand-crafted
luxury homewares,textiles and furniture – made in Wales, is launching a new textile collection
inspired by the discovery of a historical archive of Welsh blanket patterns dating from the 1700’s.

The Collection is part of the Heritage Blanket Project – a community initiative designed to
celebrate the ‘Craft and Industry of the Weaver’. It aims to resurrect historical patterns into a
range of contemporary textiles – each with a unique story to tell.

Using digital visualisation and virtual sampling technologies together with contemporary
yarns,colourways and finishes, the Project is an illustration of Blodwen’s on-going commitment
to the design and manufacture of unique homewares which fuse time-honoured skills with
modern craftsmanship.

Blodwen’s first Heritage Collection offers a range of blankets, throws, quilts and
cushions – all revived from age-old hand-drawn designs. The textiles are made from 100% pure
new wool and woven at Blodwen’s 180 year old mill in the Teifi Valley, on its original 1930’s
Dobcross looms.Blodwen IMG_0008 copyBlodwen IMG_0002 copy

The ‘Hiraeth’ (Longing) blanket is a bold geometric chequer-board design in monochrome and red. The ‘Pinwheel’ blanket is inspired by the name given to the most iconic of traditional Welsh Quilt designs, and comes in a striking indigo and red.

Both blankets feature an embroidered panel with a verse taken from the book and written by the weaver. Continue reading →

Ruthin Craft Centre: As William Morris said…..

30 August 2014 Exhibitions / General / New weave developments / News
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Ruthin Craft Centre Image2014“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” William Morris

The Ruthin Craft Centre currently have an exhibition of contemporary craft objects, curated by Gregory Parsons, which have been designed and made by individuals whose creative practice the Gallery believe would engage and intrigue the influential Victorian.

Dates: 26 July – 21 September 2014

Exhibiting: Andrew Clancy / Jason Collingwood / David Colwell / Sebastian Cox / Jenny Crisp / David Frith / Kevin Gauld / Tanya Gomez / Joseph James Hartley / John Leach / Mourne Textiles / Gareth Neal / Catarina Riccabona / Michael Ruh / Daniel Smith / Philip Stevenson / Edward Teasdale / Richard La Trobe-Bateman / Derek Wilson.

Weaver Catarina Riccabona is among the exhibitors.  She designs and makes cushions, scarves and throws with each piece being hand-woven on a traditional loom and produced from start to finish in her studio in Southeast London.

Catarinas’ work is often inspired by tribal textiles, vintage grain sacks and linen towels as well as by memories of textiles from her childhood like mattress ticking or antique kilims. The look of her work is also determined by her very eco-friendly choice of yarns: linen, hemp, wool and alpaca (all undyed/unbleached and sourced from the UK and Europe).

Catarina_19.4.14 0942Coloured yarns are plant-dyed or second-hand (from donations) or simply the natural colour of the animal fleece. Her work can also be seen in The New Craftsmen outlet in Mayfair.

Catarina is also featured on The Crafted Studio  in a video. The Crafted Studio is a website in which the Independent craft researcher Grace Reff  travelled to Europe to meet and interview selected contemporary craft makers. She presents edited versions of the studio interviews in both printed and video formats on the site.

Other  weavers featured in the exhibition.
Mourne Textiles
Jason Collingwood
Jenny Chrisp

Images and Text from Ruthin Craft Centre website, Catarina Riccabona and Grace Reff

 

 

Profile: Beatrice Larkin

28 August 2014 Company Profile / Exhibitions / General / New weave developments / News
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Beatrice Larkin 2Beatrice Larkin is a London based woven textile designer. After finishing her MA in Textile Design at The Royal College of Art, Bea has been focussing on starting up her own textile design business.

She has most recently been part of The Craft Council’s Hot House scheme for emerging makers and a recipient of The Cockpit Arts/Clothworkers Foundation Award 2014.

This year she has exhibited work at The Heals Modern Craft Market and the touring Rising Stars exhibition as well spending six weeks teaching fashion and textiles at The International Institute of Fine Arts, India.

By using traditional Dobby weaving alongside the capabilities of the computerised Jacquard loom Beatrice manipulates her hand drawings, offsetting patterns and scales to meet unexpectedly and blurring lines to create fabrics with a distinctively soft and sympathetic take on geometric textile design. Continue reading →

Aki Inomata: I Wear the Dog’s Hair, and the Dog Wears My Hair

27 August 2014 Exhibitions / General / New weave developments
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Aki Inomata 14Aki Inomata is a Japanese artist who collected the hair of a dog called Cielo and her own hair over a number of years, spun and wove the fibres and then made clothes out of her hair for the dog and out of the dog’s hair for herself so that they would be ‘exchanging coats’.

This is a piece of work,  she says that “examines the relationship between a human and their pet, and gives form to this concept”.

The work has been presented as a video installation and as two garments at Hagiso gallery Japan. The following images are stills taken from the video and more work can be seen on her website.
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