Jane Harper: Peter Collingwood Trust Award Winner
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
1ina100 & Carlotta Finch – Hand Weaving: From Peckham to India
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.
Paris Meets X-Ray Fabric©: Rita Parniczky
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©.
Exhibition: Contemporary Materials. Artists. Designers. Makers.
Teresa Georgallis
Teresa Georgallis is a textile designer specialising in woven fabric for fashion and interiors. In June 2012 she was awarded the Clothworkers’ Foundation Award / Cockpit Arts Award and she is now based at Cockpit Arts Deptford. After graduating from the Royal College of Art she has been working on a series of hand woven interior textiles, fashion accessories and stationary prints. She has developed a collection of luxury bags using her woven textiles combined with leather. All of the bags are one-off pieces designed and made by Teresa in collaboration with a leather craftsman.
www.culturelabel.com/shop/t/teresa-georgallis/
www.teresageorgallis.com
MYB Textiles & Edo Architecture Project
MYB Textiles were recently involved in The Ghost of Water Row, a project by EDO Architecture, for which they produced a veil for their temporary structure at Water Row, using their Guirlandes pattern. MYB Textiles is Morton Young and Borland Ltd and was founded in 1900 in the Irvine Valley, Scotland, exclusively weaving Scottish Lace and Madras sheers.
This pattern was felt to be relevant to the project due to the definition of the word ‘Garland’ and the Flemish roots of the handloom industry in Govan and throughout Scotland.
Thanks to this project and the history it has drawn their attention to, MYB are now researching the links between the Ayrshire lace industry and Govan by way of the weavers trail.
MYB hope to share their findings soon. In the meantime, there is some more information on the project from EDO Architecture:
Water Row has always sat at the heart of Govan. It’s a route to a crossing of the water and the reason Govan exists. Since pre Christian times, there have been successive layers of crossing and inhabitation here. All have their stories … all have their ghosts. Many remain buried awaiting investigation.
Govan’s Raison D’etre is routed in the water. With it’s desire line blocked it remains in a state of disconnection.
The Ghost of Water Row as it will appear on the footprint of the original buildings, distills the nature of Human Inhabitation that lasted here, till the Industrial Giant Harland and Wolff arrived. Built in pale Scottish Spruce – The Ghost is a careful distillation of four Buildings that sat to the west of the now buried slipway at Water Row. Its not a direct copy of the Ferry Inn or the weavers cottages that sat here from 1700 -1912 but it says something of them.
The shuttles of Govans hand loom weavers stopped flying in early 1900 to make way for shipbuilding. On the 5th November 1912 the Burgh of Govan was subsumed by the city of Glasgow and much of its independence went with it.
The pattern of the ‘Lace on the Ghost’ was taken from Flemish trade on the river Clyde its estuary and firth. It’s known as “Guirlandes†meaning garlands and representative of Honour. The pattern was moved from hand looming to mechanised looming and remains in production by MYB textiles in Ayrshire to this day.
All photographs by & copyrighted to Tom Manley
Request for UK Cotton Manufacturers. Fibrenaturelle.
Fibrenaturelle are a fabric wholesalers in Bournemouth to the interior trade and export to 18 countries.
Their cotton fabrics are made in Kerela, but are they urgently looking for cotton manufacturers in the UK.
In particular they are looking for ticking fabrics for curtains and blinds.
If anyone can please provide the company with any details contact Mark Argeband
Mobile No: 07980804950
Philippa Brock. 2D Р3D: Jacquard Woven Textiles Exhibition, Montr̩al.
The ‘2D – 3D’ exhibition shows Philippa Brock’s ‘Self Fold’ series and her new ‘X- Form’ series. The series continue to explore her research in to ‘on loom’ finishing techniques which, through the use of yarn properties and layered weave structure combinations result in textiles which 3D form either immediately they come off the loom or with light steaming.
The new ‘X-Form’ series developed for the Montreal exhibition explore ideas around x-form paper folding techniques and integrate the use of smart yarns in the weft, resulting in works that take on different appearances in both daylight and in UV light.
The ‘X-Form’ series have been developed so no electronics or programming are required and it is the inherent properties of the yarns used which create the smart different qualities of the series. The weft yarns used include phosphorescent and fluorescent.
Philippa Brock is Pathway Leader for Woven Textiles at Central Saint Martins: UAL 3 days a week and has a portfolio design practice, working in both research and the textile industry . She has previously designed e-textiles for clothing, developing conductive woven textile sensors, switches, circuits and actuators, was part of the ‘Nobel Textiles’ project (‘Self Assembly’ series) and ‘Warp Factor 09’ working with yarn provided by the Oji paper fibre company developing the ‘Self Fold’ series. Philippa Brock is also a member of Textile Futures Research Group
The textiles were woven by Philippa Brock at Gainsborough Silk Weaving Company using their Bonas Dataweave loom.
Contacts: The Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles
Dominique Caplan: A Texprint/Indigo Personal Experience
Texprint, is an established charity that promotes fresh graduates from both masters and bachelor degree Textile programmes. 24 fortunate graduates from across the U.K are hand picked first by their tutors, and then a chosen 200 are interviewed by an industry panel who have the arduous task of making the final selection.
The launch of Texprint 2012 at the London showcase in early July demonstrated the promising and varied talent of the new graduate generation – a beautiful and stimulating visual feast and a select taster of each Texprint participants Portfolio.
At Indigo, Paris the full range of the weave Texprint graduates collections could be seen – each a personal signature with much to offer the design industry. The combination of bold brights with deep darks creating punchy graphic wovens juxtaposed shiney, textured tacticle explorations and gentle humour. Seven very different collections with one common factor – Innovation.
The seven selected weavers brought new insight to the capacity of woven textiles and set the precedence for the future industry. Exhibiting alongside some the leading sample providers for both fashion and interiors, Texprint offers a phenomenal opportunity for international industry exposure. Texprint weavers each had their own personal successes; whether selling, procuring free-lance work, commissions and job offers.
Texprint relies on industry support and sponsorship and this year six Texprint awards were up for grabs. Sophie Manners won the Texprint Woolmark Award for her highly intelligent and innovative use of Marino wool in designing beautiful textured, tactile wovens and Sophie Reeves was awarded the second paid internship with Lululemon Athletica in Vancouver for her bold, graphic, structured wovens.
Busy, tired and elated this years Texprint finalists left Premier Vision to pursue their ambitions, follow up on their newly made contacts and carve their way into the textile industry. The collective feeling from all was of hope for their future promising careers and gratification for the acknowledgement of their potential and talent. This years Texprint stars send a huge and very much deserved thank you to Texprint and its organizers for all their advice, encouragement and for making it all possible.
Contact:Dominique Caplan
 
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