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Penelope is a recent installation from Tatiana Blass – the name for the exhibit is taken from Homer’s Odyssey. Penelope was Odysseus’ wife and she remained faithful for twenty years while he was away at war. To keep her suitors at bay, she kept herself busy for three years weaving a burial shroud for her father-in-law while secretly unweaving parts of it at night. She promised she would choose one when she was done but delayed it to remain faithful.

 The exhibit was designed to fill the Chapel of Morumbi in São Paulo, Brazil, where Blass lives and works. Inside the chapel, a loom sits on the altar. One side has a long red carpet that leads to the door. On the other side of the loom, the chaotic strings of tangled red yarn continue through the holes of the chapel walls to the covered yard outside. The viewer is left to wonder if the piece is being woven or unraveled, like the story of Penelope goes.



Read more at Design Milk: http://design-milk.com/penelope-by-tatiana-blass/#ixzz1nsYNZKnz

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Permcouture Institute

“The Permacoutrue Institute is an educational non-profit for regenerative design in fashio and textiles.  The Permacouture Institure supports healthy integration between nature and culture. We encourage cross-pollination between sustaiability movements and preservation of traditional textile methods, sparking innovation in the process.”

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MAIWA offers a breadth of resources for textile artists.  MAIWA’s internationally renowned symposum gathers eco-culturally inclined textile thinkers and makers each autumn for lectures and workshops.  Many of these are available through podcasts and articles on their blog. http://maiwahandprints.blogspot.com/p/welcome-to-maiwa.html MAIWA also has created a lovely series of documentaries, offers a fine selection of books and supplies, and provides a retail outlet for artists reviving traditional dyeing and printing practices in India.  http://www.maiwa.com/artisans/index.html

MAIWA offers a breadth of resources for textile artists.  MAIWA’s internationally renowned symposum gathers eco-culturally inclined textile thinkers and makers each autumn for lectures and workshops.  Many of these are available through podcasts and articles on their blog. http://maiwahandprints.blogspot.com/p/welcome-to-maiwa.html

MAIWA also has created a lovely series of documentaries, offers a fine selection of books and supplies, and provides a retail outlet for artists reviving traditional dyeing and printing practices in India.  http://www.maiwa.com/artisans/index.html

On a spring-like day such as this one (though it is early February) it is easy to think about gathering plant matter, bundling, and boiling to make lovely cloth.  India Flint, Australian fiber artist and author, has pioneered the eco-bundling process.  Her books Eco Colour and Second Skin (both published by Murdoch) are full of lovely images, offer kernals of knowledge, and notes her life-long art practice. Her site is a treasure and her blog is a visual feast not to be missed.  ”Not all those who wander are lost…” http://prophet-of-bloom.blogspot.com/ Wool samples from India Flint’s class at Shakerag Workshops  June 2010.

On a spring-like day such as this one (though it is early February) it is easy to think about gathering plant matter, bundling, and boiling to make lovely cloth.  India Flint, Australian fiber artist and author, has pioneered the eco-bundling process.  Her books Eco Colour and Second Skin (both published by Murdoch) are full of lovely images, offer kernals of knowledge, and notes her life-long art practice. Her site is a treasure and her blog is a visual feast not to be missed.  ”Not all those who wander are lost…” http://prophet-of-bloom.blogspot.com/

Wool samples from India Flint’s class at Shakerag Workshops  June 2010.

BUONGIORNO AMICI ED AMICHE DI KNITTING RELAYCollaborative Crochet/Knitting Installation on the steps of the Lutheran Church in Senate Square, Helsinki.  Knitting Relay is open to artists internationally, join the fun: http://knittingrelay.blogspot.com/p/english.html During studio conversation today we discussed the notion that a large project can become very managable when broken down to small steps.  A series of small samples might lead to much larger whole, perhaps more significant than merely the sum of its parts. Jimmy Kuo, the Crochet King, states that this example is it already giving him a headache!   

BUONGIORNO AMICI ED AMICHE DI KNITTING RELAY
Collaborative Crochet/Knitting Installation on the steps of the Lutheran Church in Senate Square, Helsinki.  Knitting Relay is open to artists internationally, join the fun:
http://knittingrelay.blogspot.com/p/english.html

During studio conversation today we discussed the notion that a large project can become very managable when broken down to small steps.  A series of small samples might lead to much larger whole, perhaps more significant than merely the sum of its parts. Jimmy Kuo, the Crochet King, states that this example is it already giving him a headache!


  

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Spider Silk

Get a behind-the-scenes look at this history and creation of this dazzling textile—the only one of its kind in the world—made from the strands of silk from over one million of Madagascar’s golden orb spiders. On view at the Art Institute of Chicago through October 2011.


Selvedge Magazine - Online Version

An online subscription to Selvedge give you access to every issue ever published in its entirety.  Truly a treat.  Ask you library to subscribe!  We are grateful that The James Agee Library at SAS did so.  Enjoy.

Victoria and Albert Museum's Textile Collection

The textile collection and the Victoria and Albert Museum is truly a treasure.  Create a user name and password and log-to the material wealth of this robust collection.  Make folders for collections of your favorites, explore documentaries, essays, and podcasts… Beware, you could  spend a whole afternoon here in a heartbeat!