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Competition: Bristol Tweed

3 July 2015 Competitions / General / New weave developments / News
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Farm8byAlexIngram2014-2low resBristol Cloth have launched an open competition to design a Tweed for Bristol. The cloth will be a 100% wool fabric of classic heritage-inspired design, prioritising locally sourced materials and manufacturing processes from the South West of the UK.

Design Brief
What does Bristol’s social fabric look like?
What kind of cloth does Bristol need?
How would you weave Bristol?
What woven designs were traditionally borne out of the South West?

The winning Bristol Cloth design will encapsulate the  very diverse city, while also referencing traditional woven design. Participants will choose their own starting point from which to explore a design theme and follow Bristol Cloth’s Instagram for inspiration.

The Bristol Cloth will be broadly and commercially appealing to local designer-makers, local brands and retailers as well as the general public with end use being for accessories, outerwear and/or interiors.

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Resource: The Weaving Communities of Practice Website

22 June 2015 General / New weave developments / News
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Fig1The Weaving Communities of Practice website, the result of an AHRC-funded project on textiles, culture and identity in the Andes, provides a great resource for anyone interested in Andean textiles and an inspiration for textile designers. The database is easily searchable around a number of themes and provides high-resolution full colour images of textiles from collections around the world.

The project is based at the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (CILAVS) and the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at Birkbeck, University of London, with the Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Aymara (ILCA), in La Paz, Bolivia, in partnership with museums in the UK, Bolivia, Peru and Chile.

The principal feature of this website is a database of Andean textiles. Using the Textile Product Search, you can:

  • Search the database by key terms
  • View high-resolution images of textiles from collections around the world
  • Make thematic searches: on structure, technique, place, region, period, material and iconography
  • Make advanced searches, crossing and filtering data
  • Save text, images and searches
  • Print, export and send data

There is also a detailed guide to processes of textile manufacture, including images and video clips of techniques, instruments and structures; a glossary of textile-related terms in English, Spanish and Andean languages; an introduction to textile heritage; and bibliography.

Text and images: Weaving Communities of Practice website

 

 

 

West Dean Tapestry Symposium

8 June 2015 General / New weave developments / News / Symposium
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Black Cat for Tracey Emin woven at West Dean Tapestry StudioSymposium: What is handwoven tapestry’s place in contemporary art?
Date: Friday 31 July 2015
Venue: The Old Library, West Dean College, West Dean, Chichester, West Sussex
Time: 11.00 – 17.00
West Dean Tapestry Studio, one of only two commercial studios in the UK, has announced a Tapestry Symposium to be held at West Dean College, internationally renowned for Creative Arts and Conservation. The symposium will explore the status of hand woven tapestry within the context of contemporary art and craft practices.

Lesley Millar Portrait2 Photo Credit - Damian ChapmanSpeakers include; Professor Lesley Millar, Director of Anglo Japanese Textile Research Centre at the School of Craft and Design;

Yvonna Demczynska, Founder and curator of Flow Gallery in Notting Hill, a consultant for the Crafts Council.

“A distinct feature of art can be its immediacy,” says Alison Baxter, Head of Creative Enterprise, West Dean Tapestry Studio. “Hand weaving is a time-rich creative practice and by its very nature the making of a tapestry is a lengthy, highly skilled process. Hand weavers are producing complex and innovative pieces.”

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Profile: Susie Taylor

19 May 2015 Company Profile / General / New weave developments
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Three Towers 72dpi for WeaveShedSusie Taylor has an extensive background weaving on shaft looms and has 11 years experience designing high-end jacquard fabrics for the upholstery market. She has spent many years hand manipulating yarns, on the loom, to produce multi-layered structures and in 2012 she received the Handweaver’s Guild of America’s Certificate of Excellence in Handweaving, Level 1. Her work is exhibited extensively.

Susie combines hand-manipulated techniques with loom-controlled structures. Currently, she creates dimensional textiles that incorporate origami and weaving techniques together to create new woven forms without any cutting or sewing; only weaving and folding are used.

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London Craft Week

2 May 2015 Company Profile / Events / Exhibitions / General / New weave developments / News
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Daniel Harris at London Cloth CompanyLondon Craft Week  6 – 10th May 2015 is a new annual, not-for-profit event which showcases exceptional craftsmanship through a journey-of-discovery programme featuring hidden workshops, celebrated makers, other lesser known makers and highly specialised skills alongside famous shops, galleries and luxury brands.

Founded on the ethos of making, London Craft Week aims to put craftsmanship at centre stage of the world’s creative capital by introducing the talent, people and techniques behind beautifully made things to a wider audience. They will be able to experience craft not just as static branded objects in smart shops but understand the context of how they were made, why they are special and even have a try themselves.

Weavers involved in London Craft Week include :

Daniel Harris, who set up The London Cloth Company in 2010,  has single-handedly sourced, rebuilt and restored numerous power looms of historical significance dating from as early as 1870 to 1970. Since then the London Cloth Company has grown into a renowned international brand, supplying a range of cottons and woollens to top designers.  He will set up a power loom and be weaving at DAKS, 10 Old Bond Street, London W1S 4PL, on May 7th 2015 from 10.30am – 17.00

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Exhibitions & PhD: Barbara Jansen

6 April 2015 Conferences / Exhibitions / General / New weave developments / News / Publication
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3 - temporal patterns - colour flowBarbara Jansen will be displaying two projects (physical prototypes): “rhythm exercise” and “Sinus 64 + blue” at Techtextil Fair in Frankfurt on the stand from Smart Textiles/University of Boras, stand 3.1 C76, 4th-7th May 2015.

She will be on site on 4th-6th May. She will also give a lecture on  her PhD research at Elfack Fair in the Light Forum at the Swedish Exhibition and Congress Center in Gothenburg 7th -may 2015.

Temporal patterns – Solo Exhibition.
Textile Museum Boras, Sweden. 17th February – 29th March

7 - temporal patterns - Sinus 64 + blueIn this exhibition, textile designer Barbara Jansen presented her PhD thesis, in which she investigated the visual effects of movement using light as a continuous time-based medium. The textiles displayed in this exhibition showed a varying range of examples which explore aesthetic possibilities of how light can be integrated as an active part into textile structures. Thereby ranging from weaving, to knitting and braiding techniques, both hand crafted, as well as industrial produced.

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Call for Applications: Cockpit Arts / The Clothworkers’ Foundation Award 2015

25 March 2015 General / New weave developments
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SMALL.Amor La momposina.4About The Award:

Applications are invited for the Cockpit Arts / The Clothworkers’ Foundation Award 2015. The Award is only open to weavers who have graduated within the last 5 years.

The Award aims to assist emerging weavers to set up in business by providing studio space and business support provided by Cockpit Arts as well as shared use of looms.

There are Two Awards available and the selection panel (including the acclaimed ikat weaver and designer, Mary Restieaux) will be looking for individuals who demonstrate entrepreneurial spirit as well as creative excellence and craft skills.

The Award contributes to the cost of a place at Cockpit for one year from July 2015 and will include a space in a shared studio equipped with 3 looms, Leclerc and Louet, and the following benefits:

  • Studio space and use of looms within the creative community of Cockpit Arts at Deptford, London, SE8 with access to office facilities and resource centre.
  • Business and professional development services including on-site coaching, a personalised development plan, access to finance, workshops and events.
  • A range of selling and promotional opportunities including Cockpit Arts Open Studios selling events.
  • Award worth £2,000 with the remaining £2,000 fee being provided by the Award winner, payable on a monthly basis.

How to apply:

  •  Please request a “Clothworkers Award” application pack from dana@cockpitarts.com
  •  Deadline for receipt of applications is Monday 18 May, 12pm
  •  Interviews with shortlisted applicants will be held on Tuesday 26 May

Text & image: Copyright Cockpit arts

Job: Tibor

10 March 2015 General / Jobs / New weave developments
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img002Graduate Full Time Position: Production Manager/Personal Assistant
The opportunity:

To work on the relaunch of Interior and Lifestyle brand ‘Tibor’ founded by Tibor Reich in 1946.
For more information see www.tiborreichtrust.org/
Tibor is based in Notting Hill London.

The Role:
Liasing with textile maufacturers ( weavers, spinners, dyers) Liasing with interior designers and furniture manufacturers Helping to organise the |Tibor Reich retrospective exhibition at The Fashion and Textile Museum-London and Whitworth Manchester in 2016 Helping to compile a 300 page book on Tibor Reich’s life in design
General Admin and day to day running of the company
Knowledge of and working on social media, look books. Website, photography
Organising the Tibor Reich archive
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Première Vision report: Fiona O’Keefe

10 March 2015 General / New weave developments
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Fiona O’Keefe is a second year weave student at Central Saint Martins, University of The Arts London. This is the account of her first visit to Premiere Vision.

LanyardSporting the all-important lanyard and armed with a free guide, Première Vision was at first, and at the very least, overwhelming. Attending the trade fair as part of a class trip, we had been given various tips and tricks to aid our maiden voyage, but negotiating the maze of elevated, opaque stands was something that can only be experienced first hand.

Thanks to an immediate coffee-break and an avid perusal of the surprisingly helpful maps, the day at Première Vision looked somewhat more surmountable. The exhibition halls were vast, but the forums that were scattered throughout each were accessible and offered students a hands-on opportunity to get a feel for what was at the fair.

The biggest forum, situated in Hall 6 Fabrics, boasted a miscellany of mainly-woven samples that were assorted into different trends. Placed side by side, ’Bathrobe’ and ‘Spongey Languor’ attracted much attention as hands reached in from all angles to clutch at the cushiony samples.

Italian mill Mantero Seta had a take on this trend which stood out from their cotton, lilac and chartreuse counterparts. The silk alternative they offered in a blush pink with playful flashes of primary colour created a squashy but sophisticated newness. The feeling here was simultaneously soft and lively.

Teeming It was the vivacity in colour, mood and texture that recurred within another trend titled ‘Teeming’, which visibly proved popular among those who came across it. Clusters of colour dotted in and around graphic shapes cropped up on samples from both Ratti and Malhia Kent who used jacquard weaving to produce busy, illustrative patterns.

This energy extended as far as their stands and at Malhia Kent getting past their front desk was akin to gaining entry at an exclusive night club or fashion show. Large, scribbly and dazzling samples in shades of neon green and glittering gold had been tossed artfully over the walls of the stand, and the constant groups of hopefuls milling around it generated a definite buzz.

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Bonnie Kirkwood: Première Vision

2 February 2015 Exhibitions / General / New weave developments
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BONNIE KIRKWOOD 2 - CopyBonnie Kirkwood is exhibiting at Première Vision Designs 2015  (previously Indigo) to launch her new spring summer 2016 collection of hand woven designs for the global fashion market. She had previously shown there as a Texprint winner.

This London based textile company , specialises in bespoke woven textile design and fabric consultancy for the fashion and interior industries.

Bonnie’s woven collections illustrate a high awareness of the market, with stimulating use of colour. Her signature styles range from intricate patterns in silks, innovative textures in wool, to finest weaves in linen and cotton. Combined with specific yarn and quality selection,these fabrics have global appeal.

Working internationally for the high end contemporary fashion and interior industries, through appointment and international trade fairs Bonnie offers a diverse service, encompassing design, development and production of woven fabric from commercial through to luxury level.
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