Woven Textiles Jacquard
Swan Point #2, above
Collection-Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase 2016
Above-Visions of Gerard
for Jack Kerouac
Jacquard woven, cut and manipulated, wool, linen, rayon and metallic thread.
The title of this piece is from a novel by Jack Kerouac, about Lowell, Massachusetts and the scenes and sensations of his childhood there and his brother. I was trying to capture the slants of the roofs of the mills, the fog, the mist, the smoke Kerouac describes, as well as visiting and experiencing Lowell myself, trying to capture a low level of light.
The novel is both beautiful and unsettling. So the angle in my piece is critical to the work. Using Digital weaving allowed me to create a slow angle, with a repeat of 180 inches. The cutting of the floats adds to the veiling or mist. In many of my digital weavings the cloth is designed to be cut and manipulated.
My pieces are designed with unlimited size dimensions. So a piece like Visions of Gerard can be woven the length of an industrial warp, because the piece is cut after weaving, there are almost unlimited possibilities for width and variety in surface.
for Jack Kerouac
Jacquard woven, cut and manipulated, wool, linen, rayon and metallic thread.
The title of this piece is from a novel by Jack Kerouac, about Lowell, Massachusetts and the scenes and sensations of his childhood there and his brother. I was trying to capture the slants of the roofs of the mills, the fog, the mist, the smoke Kerouac describes, as well as visiting and experiencing Lowell myself, trying to capture a low level of light.
The novel is both beautiful and unsettling. So the angle in my piece is critical to the work. Using Digital weaving allowed me to create a slow angle, with a repeat of 180 inches. The cutting of the floats adds to the veiling or mist. In many of my digital weavings the cloth is designed to be cut and manipulated.
My pieces are designed with unlimited size dimensions. So a piece like Visions of Gerard can be woven the length of an industrial warp, because the piece is cut after weaving, there are almost unlimited possibilities for width and variety in surface.
Sow
Jacquard woven, cut and manipulated, wool, recycled polyester, linen, polylactic acid fiber, nylon.
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The second series of Jacquard cloths,called “Sickle and Sowed,” are the first cloths where the technique of cut floats was employed. The Van Gogh drawings I saw at the Kroller–Muller Museum in the Netherlands informed my own drawings that became the source for the cloths. The first cloth has been clipped and shorn as if the growth of threads is a weed like substance, unwanted, pulled and haphazard. The second cloth has been cut with more care. The cloth woven with linen, nylon and fine black metallic yarns synthesizes into a strange garden of threads that seem to have been grown from the surface. |
Sow 1, above
Sow 2, below
Below- hand cutting of Sow.
Swan Point
Jacquard woven, cut and manipulated, recycled vinyl coated polyester, wool, linen and cotton.
Swan Point, Small version, Full view, unflocked (above)
Swan Point, Full views & details, flocked (below)
Komako 1, Detail below
Jacquard woven, cut and manipulated, recycled polyester, wool, nylon, linen and retro reflective glass fiber
Komako 1
The title of this piece and inspiration is from a novel by Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country.
I wanted to create a piece that mimics the transformation of the central character in the novel. The textiles transformation come from three changes; yarn color, material and hanging direction.
the woven structure is identical in both of the iterations.
