Since I talked about recycling textile waste in my article about Shinique Smith this week, this seemed like a perfect time to talk about Italian designer Luisa Cevese, whose coin purse, made from laminated textile waste (shown above), is this week’s featured weave. I bought it, and another similar piece at Ad Hoc Softwares, [...]
Archive for July, 2009
2009 Weave of the Week #30: Luisa Cevese
July 26, 2009
Shinique Smith
July 23, 2009
I don’t write about art exhibitions often, but two of my favorite words kept popping up in connection with Shinique Smith’s current show: “textiles” and “calligraphy.”
This dynamic multi-media solo exhibition, Ten Times Myself, comprises new paintings, sculpture, and collages that incorporate used clothing, fragments and bunches of textiles, and funky found objects. Ms. Smith’s work [...]
2009 Weave of the week #29: Premiere Vision New York
July 19, 2009
It’s mid-July, but I’m into fall — fall 2010, that is — because it’s time for me to start thinking about new designs for fall/winter 2010/2011. So last week I headed over to the Première Vision New York show to start researching colors and fabrics.
Première Vision New York is a spinoff from the much larger, [...]
2009 Weave of the week #28: Faux ikat
July 12, 2009
Since I recently wrote about super-labor-intensive Japanese picture ikat, I thought that it would be fun, this week, to feature an imitation ikat fabric that I designed in 1976 for Wollman Industries, NYC. My fabric is shown above, next to a photo, in an unidentified catalog, of a skirt that was made from it (left).
The [...]
2009 Weave of the week #27: Gold ribbon
July 6, 2009
I don’t have a method for picking a weave-of-the-week subject — I usually just rummage around till I find something that feels right. This week, since I seem to be having problems making decisions lately, I chose the gold ribbon shown above because it was exactly the sort of bonbon that my spirit needed.
The ribbon [...]
