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RCA graduate Ãine Byrne is a woven textile maker and designer from Dublin, Ireland.
Inspired by the use of bright pigments used in Mexican Day of The Dead ceremonies and the sometimes irreverent approach to death in the Irish wake tradition, her work sounds dark but is actually playful and uplifting.
Tangible Impressions
physical presence in the digital world
One thing is clear; the uneasy balance between physical and digital will be one of the greatest struggles of the next generation. Tom Vavik
‘Tactile’ is becoming a buzzword for designers, journalists, technologists, and futurists alike. In today’s hyper-digitalised world we appear fascinated with the ‘real’: fetishizing the touching of physical materials and surfaces. Tactile is very much in fashion.
Tangible Impressions is a research project exploring this emerging trend; focusing on how, why and what we touch. Through photography, mark making and weaving Stephanie explores these issues and questioned:Â Whether textiles can record and represent physical presence in our digital world?
Like a hand print in concrete, a dropped programmatic tracking cookie on your browser or in imprint in a memory foam mattress; can textiles be part of a permanent or transient conversation between humans and physical surfaces?
Stephanie Rolph’s practise focuses on material research through practical experimentation, innovation and adaptation of traditional processes. Through weave she has created a collection of textiles that change and evolve through human interaction. Pulling, twisting, brushing, scrapping and stroking captured in highly tactile, conceptual pieces complimented by the quieter, graceful and intriguing pieces. Continue reading →
Hanna Vinlöf Nylén’s work centres around made up narratives inspired by her surroundings, daydreams, memorabilia and experiences.
Hanna’s graduate collection was inspired by how people from different age groups and demographics define their personal space by studying contrasting ways of living.
Hanna is originally from Sweden and moved to London 5 years ago and the concept for her collection originated from her passion for home décor.
Yasmin Hussain is a recent graduate of Central Saint Martins specialising in the construction of woven fabrics. Throughout the early part of her degree, she produced designs using the more traditional materials such as silks, wools and rayons. Some of these collections were inspired by patterns in her cultural background as well as intricate gates in London and bones.
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Anja Alexandersdottir’s graduate collection was inspired by from the fleeting and transient qualities found in nature, such as light through the trees, natural anomalies that are volcanoes,  northern lights, and her light leak, double exposure photography.
Working with hand dyed cashmere silk to translate the hazy qualities in her photography into woven fabric she has produced delicate fabrics with subtle colours shifts and light filtering qualities, that are complimented by figurative jacquards depicting the more graphic qualities in the theme.
Anja will be exhibiting  alongside the other Texprint winners at Première Vision Designs in Paris. 15th – 17th September 2015 Continue reading →
Nicola Costello graduated from BSc (Hons) Textile Design for Fashion and Interiors, BMus (Hons) double award from the University of Huddersfield.
Nicola has a passion for  British wool and her final  interior woven textile collection centered around the use of British wool exploring the textures and the hues of the French Alps.
Rita Parniczky is the winner of the Peter Collingwood Trust Award 2015. Her latest work, X-Ray Vault Series I and II have earned her this award for innovation in loom-based work. In 2014, to continue the development of her translucent material Parniczky set a new challenge to further investigate the movements of the warp, this time focusing on the manipulation of the monofilament warp.
Observing the architectural details of fan vaults Parniczky recalled the skeletal structure in her new body of work X-Ray Vault Series I. This piece, as previously posted on The Weave Shed was the winner of the Geoffrey Squire Memorial Competition 2014. Parniczky, with the  support of an Arts Council England grant further explored her process and technique to form more complex and abstract fan-like shapes at a larger scale in 2015.
The result, X-Ray Vault Series II exhibited at COLLECT at Saatchi Gallery, demonstrates profound monofilament warp manipulations resulting in patterns that are emphasised and truly visible with light passing through the structure.
Rita Parniczky’s curiosity about what lies beneath textile surfaces led her to experiment with various weave techniques during her studies at Central Saint Martins. She has developed her own translucent material that reveals the vertical warp. The warp threads, otherwise often invisible in most materials, become the focal point and form elaborate patterns in Parniczky’s work. `I like to imagine complex patterns running underneath the surface of woven materials, invisible to the naked eye until unveiled in my work. I compare this to the bone structure of the human body, only visible when x-rayed.` explains Parniczky.
Parniczky studies her translucent material installations with light; natural or artificial light bring visual change to the pieces taking on the luminosity of crystals. Parniczky is interested in the transformation of the material as light moves across her work; she analyses this performance at different locations and times and documents her findings in photography and moving image.
London Guild of Weavers Spinners and Dyers are exhibiting their work at St Martin in The Fields, Trafalgar Square, London, from 8 September-3rd October 2015
“Waste Nothing- Finding a home for the Discardedâ€
This exhibition brings together original textiles and yarns designed and made by members of the London Guild using old textiles, yarns and other materials and demonstrates their creativity in transforming unwanted materials into something new.
Free admission – open Daily 11.am-6pm.
Select Showcase opens in Cheltenham in the historic Cheltenham Town Hall running for 3 days: 23rd – 25th October.
Presented by SITselect the Showcase will be a 3 day festival,  bringing individual maker stands plus a stimulating mix of talks, workshops, demonstrations. There is also a  one day conference.
There are 78 makers’ stands, 4 Colleges of Art and Design showing graduate’s work, an area featuring World Textile stands and exhibitions of contemporary craft work. There is the chance to learn something new, buy something extraordinary, or just admire the outstanding creativity of our designers and crafts people.
A major part of the Showcase is a series of talks with speakers immersed in the world of weaving.
Rethreaded series of talks
Friday 23rd  offers a series of stimulating talks around weaving journeys.
In Conversation Penny Wheeler & Maryrose Watson
Chair: Theo Wright
Penny Wheeler is a hand-loom weaver and artist who explores the complexities of the craft whilst also subverting the conventions of the discipline.
Maryrose and Penny will be in conversation with Theo Wright discussing how they work, the freedom and limitations of working within a grid and how colour informs their practice.
Jilly Edwards in conversation with Ismini Samanidou
Two tapestry greats delve into their different methods of working.
Jilly is a tapestry weaver and Ismini a weaver both hand weaving and jacquard. They have a shared language and a common understanding through threads.
Chaired by Felicity Aylieff
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From Back to FrontÂ
Commissioned by the American Tapestry Alliance and the Laffer Curatorial Program
From Back to Front is an online curatorial project which gathers together recent examples of tapestry weaving that expose their construction: warp threads are left dangling, even the frame of the loom remains integral to some finished works. These visible traces remind us of the vast potential of the woven structure.
Exhibitors include Ann Cathrin November Hoibo, Emelie Rondahl (pictured above), Jennifer Hunt, Katharine Swailes, Lucy Brown, Nicole Pyles & Tonje Hoydahl Sorli.
The exhibition is curated by Jessica Hemmings
Text and images from The American Tapestry Alliance website. All photo credits can be found on the site