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Dash & Miller: QEST Scholars 2013_14

25 February 2014 Company Profile / General / New weave developments / News
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Juliet Bailey weaving image 1 LRFranki Brewer and Juliet Bailey of Dash and Miller have been awarded scholarships by the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust for their proposal to undertake an in-depth research project into woven textile manufacturing processes existing within the UK today.
Dash & Miller Studio has been creating hand-woven design for the textile industry since 2009, working with both national and global clients in all areas of the fashion and interior fabric sectors. The designs, which are all created on hand-looms at the studio, are often then utilised by the client in the development of mass-produced commercial fabric on an industrial scale.They exhibit regularly at Indigo trade fair, Paris

Franki and Juliet seek to expand their knowledge of industrial spinning, weaving, dyeing and finishing processes both modern and traditional in order to inform their own hand-woven designing. By applying for The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust, Franki and Juliet have secured funding and support to complete their research project, which will culminate in a number of talks and presentations in late 2014.
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Exhibition: The Art of Craft – Ayse Simsek

25 February 2014 Exhibitions / General / New weave developments
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Untitled-7The Art of Craft is a Contemporary Crafts exhibition which celebrates contemporary craft, featuring artistic practices which push the boundaries between craft and fine art.

The show will highlight exceptional artworks crafted in glass, ceramic, thread,wire, and wood. A programme of film, talks and workshops will accompany the exhibition exploring the processes and skills of different makers.

Exhibiting artists include: Max Jacquard, Helaina Sharpley, Lindsay Taylor, Alex Hamill, Ayse Simsek and Amanda Westbury
Exhibition opens from 25th March-19th April. Opening time: 10.00 – 5.30pm
Westgate Gallery, Gatehouse Arts, 19 Westgate, Harlow, Essex CM20 2QQ
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Ayse Simsek woven textile artist and designer is inspired by the natural world and a compulsion to not just re-interpret it but to combine it within woven structure.

Ayse’s work takes two approaches to textiles; firstly using a more traditional method of hand-weaving with a variety of fibres and techniques to recreate the naturally occurring, sometimes surprising, contrasts of textures seen all around us in the world. The second approach is to intricately intertwine and wrap yarn around natural surfaces, bringing woven structure to nature – sometimes in ways that merge with it and sometimes in ways that fight against it.

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Exhibition: Rising Stars 2014

21 February 2014 Exhibitions / General / New weave developments
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Rising stars leaflet 2014-1Rising Stars 2014 is a touring exhibition of  innovative crafts produced by emerging makers in the UK. Thirty-two recent graduates work from applied arts and crafts programmes will be shown at the New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham (8th March-19th April), Milton Keynes Arts Centre (26 April- 31st May) and Smiths Row, Bury St. Edmunds (7th June-12th July).
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Exhibition: Stacey Harvey – Brown & Agnes Hauptli

21 February 2014 Events / Exhibitions / General / New weave developments
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2014-01-09 15.32.37UK weaver, Stacey Harvey-Brown and Agnes Hauptli, from New Zealand are exhibiting their responses to geological forms and natural landscapes in ‘Nature in The Making’.  The exhibition of stalactites, canyons and caverns, showcasing some highly unusual three-dimensional weaving and  visual images, will be at the Earth House, Peria New Zealand from 8th to 18th March 2014, before moving on to Arts in Oxford, just north of Christchurch, from 12th April to 7th May.

After its New Zealand leg, ‘Nature in the Making’ will go to the USA, to the B2 Fine Art Gallery in Tacoma, Washington before going on to other venues in the USA and Europe.

Since 2010, the two weavers have met in the US every two years to visit some of the geological features surrounding their biennial weaving conference locations. This exhibition was inspired by trips to the Grand Canyon and Antelope Canyons in Arizona, and the cave systems under the Blue Ridge and Shenandoah Mountain ranges in Virginia. Agnes Hauptli uses a computer-assisted jacquard loom to create large visually engaging colour panels  and Stacey Harvey-Brown uses a shaft loom to create highly textured three-dimensional Growth Forms installations and large off-the-wall Strata Wall pieces. Continue reading →

Launch: Textile Technologies Project

18 February 2014 Conferences / Events / General / New weave developments / News
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ttp2logoThis launch will inform companies on how the project will enable them to access the key industry emerging technologies housed within the centre in Carmarthen. The event on 25th February 2014 will be of interest to any business wishing to work on Research and Development, new product development, knowledge transfer, and collaborative projects.

• Printed, knitted and woven textile design-CAD development
• Development of woven Jacquard fabrics-jacquard loom
• Gerber Technology for pattern digitising, manipulation, grading and marker making
• Virtual sampling-CAD printed and woven designs
• Scotweave CAD design development
• Product development and prototyping
• Research and testing of fabrics for potential laser or ultrasonic joining
• Laser cutting, laser etching, and hydro cutting
Digital fabric printing
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Glithero: Woven Song

18 December 2013 Company Profile / Exhibitions / General / New weave developments / News
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woven_songs-1169_4Woven Song is a work about making woven textiles from organ music punch cards. Commissioned by the Zuiderzee Museum in the Netherlands, the project bridges the worlds of two craftsmen, a weaver and an organ maker, who in each case use a system of punched cards to inform the behaviour of a machine, a loom or an organ. Glithero worked alongside life-long weaver Wil van den Broek and master organ maker Leon van Leeuwen to understand the techniques of their crafts and learn if it would be possible to translate one coded art form into the other, to in effect, weave music.

The project forms a self-contained exhibition that presents the material outcomes – fabrics and artefacts, and a two screen video projection that documents the story of the project. On one side that of the organ maker and the other the weaver, who’s stories run concurrently. The dancing hands of the craftsmen form a graceful choreography that echo from one screen to the other, focusing on the uncanny resemblances betweens the crafts and the craftsmen’s stories, at times synchronising, overlapping, diverging, and mirroring.

woven_songs-1169_3The use of parallel stories draws attention to common themes, traits, challenges about the preservation of wisdom and heritage. By means of collaboration, Glithero encourage the craftsmen to look upon themselves, their working lives and their legacy from a new vantage point, and by leading them both away from the conventions of their crafts they create new outcomes that are challenging and miraculous. The exhibition not only comprises the final products of this quest, but also the very elements of the quest itself.

Glithero are British designer Tim Simpson and Dutch designer Sarah van Gameren, who met and studied at the Royal College of Art. From their studio in London they create product, furniture, and time-based installations that give birth to unique and wonderful products. The work is presented in a broad spectrum of media, but follows a consistent conceptual path; to capture and present the beauty in the moment things are made.
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Texprint weave successes: Elizabeth Ashdown reports

12 November 2013 Events / Exhibitions / General / New weave developments
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The five Texprint 2013 weavers showcased their diverse collections at the Indigo trade show in Paris in September to great success. Three out of the four Texprint prize winners were weavers and two weavers were selected to take part in a 7-week internship programme in Como, Italy.

Signe Rand EbbesenSigne Rand Ebbesens’ collection was given the Woolmark Award for her stunning fashion collections which use 60% or more merino wool. Signe’s collections of fabrics focus on hand craftsmanship, intricate structures and textures that change appearance and colour in the light. She sold her innovative designs to Lululemon Athletica and Nike and she in now working at Vanners silk mill as a designer.

Cherica Haye

 

 

 

Cherica Haye had a stellar few days in Paris – not only did she sell plenty of her designs, she also won the Texprint Pattern Prize and jointly won an internship in Vancouver with Lululemon Athletica, as well as taking part in a 7- week internship at a mill in Como. The judges celebrated Cherica’s collection for its extraordinary designs and attention to detail, which blend traditional weave structures with contemporary performance fabrics.

Elizabeth Ashdown

 

 

Elizabeth Ashdowns’ innovative mixed-media designs for Passementerie were shortlisted for the Texprint Pattern Prize. Her designs attracted considerable interest due to the level of exquisite hand craftsmanship, a bold and contemporary colour palette and the use of a wide variety of materials ranging from leather to bullion springs. Elizabeth sold work to Cassamance and has recently undertaken a commission to produce a bracelet.

Taslima Sultana

 

 

Taslima Sultana won the Texprint colour prize for her collection of fabrics which have been inspired by how insects use colour, pattern and texture for survival, attraction and protection. Judge Tamsin Blanchard praised Taslima’s fabrics, commenting on her ‘incredibly rich and vibrant designs’ (Texprint 2013).

Ffion Griffith

 

 

 

 


Ffion Griffith was awarded the Texprint Space prize for her collection of contemporary Welsh blankets and interior fabrics that blend rich colour and innovative pattern placement with traditional methods and techniques. Ffion was selected to take part in the 7-week internship in Como, and on her return to the UK she will be take up a position at Liberty of London’s Fabric Innovation department.

 

The winners of the prizes also exhibited their work at Intertextile Shanghai in October

New weave company: Chalk

8 November 2013 Company Profile / Exhibitions / General / New weave developments / News
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Squircle-Outline-Sage-Cushion-50cm-x-50cmChalk launched its first range of woven products in July 2013, at Harrogate’s Home and Gift fair and was awarded “Best New Product” at the show.

Chalk’s founders are Kerry Stokes, an experienced freelance woven textile designer in furnishing and fashion fabrics and Richard Bush who previously ran an interior furnishing business.

Kerry Stokes commented that “We’re delighted at the positive response Chalk has received so far. We’ve loved the whole process from the initial inspiration through to the final photo shoots. It’s immensely complicated and fascinating”

Chalk made  contact with prospective stockists and buyers at the fair, and is now becoming an established company within the home market in the UK.

BannerChalk currently offer a range of woven soft furnishing products, including blankets, throws and cushions, all woven and made in the UK. The products are woven in merino lambswool and are partly inspired by the Sussex land, seascapes and architecture, where their business is based. There are six designs in various colourways, squircle outline, full squircle, beacon, prism, fern and reeds.
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Exhibition: NewVo – Jaymini Bedia

6 November 2013 Exhibitions / General / New weave developments
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SilkShotFabricJaymini Bedia’s NewVo exhibition debuted at the Oxo Wharf, Southbank London in January this year and has since toured successfully at numerous venues. The exhibition comprises of unique hand-woven textiles and luxury printed accessories.

NewVo at The Digby Gallery will present The Gainsborough Collection and NewVo silk scarves alongside some exciting new work, including The Skyline Series of framed compositions and woven Womenswear fashion pieces.

Jaymini Bedia is a textile designer based in Colchester. Her passion for vibrant colours, textures and beautiful hand-woven cloth inspired her to set up her own company, which takes a fresh perspective on the ancient craft of hand-weaving. Her work fuses contemporary woven structures, traditional hand-painting techniques and sophisticated colour palettes, resulting in an inimitable style and a stunning range of hand-woven fabrics for fashion and interiors.

The Gainsborough Collection is inspired by the machinery of a functioning silk weaving mill – one of the few now remaining in Britain. The collection interprets the nature of the mill in a novel way; the repetitive machinery, winders spinning, jacquard looms moving…and simultaneously captures the delicate, beautiful silk fabrics that these industrial machines create.
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Exhibition: Sound Matters – Ismini Samanidou & Scanner

27 October 2013 Exhibitions / General / New weave developments
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Ismini Samanidou and Scanner for Sound MattersWeave Waves brings together sound artist Scanner and textile designer Ismini Samanidou seen in the Sound Matters Exhibition at The Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University. Scanner & Ismini  are exploring sound, geography and mapping, code, place and scale through textiles and how this data relates to textile-weave structures and musical scores.

The sketchbook of the thinking illustrating the thinking process behind Weave Waves can be seen here

Sound Matters considers the connections between craft practice and sound art. Seven contemporary works have been selected to illustrate ways in which these two distinct practices can collide. Exploring the physicality of sound, the works are characterised by both their sonic properties and materiality. The artists include  Max Eastley, Keith Harrison, Cathy Lane, Owl Project,  Studio Weave, Dominic Wilcox & Yuri Suzuki

The makers and artists represented in this exhibition demonstrate how an engagement with sound also implicates an engagement with matter. Drawn from across creative disciplines, each work is indicative of a different approach: looking to traditional craft heritage and processes such as weaving and wood turning to create new sound forms, playing with shared technologies and language and revealing the sounds of materials.

With its equal emphasis on sound and form, Sound Matters offers a new and multi-sensory engagement with craft, with each work demanding to be heard as well as seen. With works of varying scale and volume, it is as important to listen as to look to fully experience the show.

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