Using unusual materials to create three-dimensional woven forms, Jane Harper has pushed the possibilities of what can be achieved within loom based woven art.

With a keen interest in experimentation and the industrial landscape, her work explores alternative ways of creating stable woven structures, which can be stand alone pieces or used within a functional context.

The series ‘Collapsible Construction’ featured, provides innovative means of manipulating interior spaces. The pieces are all woven as one piece on a dobby loom and manipulated post weaving.

Having graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2012, Jane went on to win the Peter Collingwood Trust Award in 2012 for her innovative designs showcased at her degree show. She exhibited at New Designers, has featured in the Interior Design blog as ‘one to watch’ and will soon be exhibiting at the Interweave exhibition at Habitat Platform Gallery, London 2013.

Other images of Jane Harpers woven designs can be found on the following link.

Website: www.janeweaves.com
Contact: Jane Harper

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1ina100 and Carlotta Finch present ‘Hand Weaving: From Peckham to India’, an exhibition delving into weaving and celebrating its relationship to the world around us.

The exhibition is at The Sassoon Gallery, 213 Blenhiem Grove, Peckham, London. SE15 4QL. The private view is on 14th Dec 2012 6.00pm – 02.30am and 15th Dec 2012. 11.00 – 6.00pm

In Autumn 2012 1ina100 and Carlotta travelled to India to research current weaving techniques, both old and new, and collaborated with a diverse selection of local rural and urban craftsmen. The goal was to find the best hand weaver to collaborate with on a new 1ina100 project, coming to fruition in 2013. The project will promote Carlotta as an emerging weave designer and will highlight hand weaving as a vanishing skill. The research took the project through the back streets of Hyderabad, Bangalore and Dehli as well as the more rural communities of Tirupati and Leh. The exhibition documents this journey.

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Rita Parniczky weaves exclusive hand woven material for interiors and art projects and has developed her innovative material, X-Ray Fabric© since her graduation from Central St Martins in 2009.
She now works on a 24-shaft computer dobby loom from her London-based studio, at Cockpit Arts Deptford.

Rita was recently commissioned by SAS matériO Paris to create a piece for their appearance at the Equipbaie Fair in the French capital this November. Group matériO was showcasing a trend area dedicated to innovation within the solar protection fields. Rita’s work was very well received by both public and industry. Now, this piece will hang in the office and showroom of matériO in Paris. Further samples of X-Ray Fabric© will be included into each material library of matériO across Europe.
Rita, by manipulating the warp threads, creates a translucent structure which quality allows the viewer to look into inner layers of X-Ray Fabric©.

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