Four Little Remnants

Some samples get a new life as lovely wall hangings. In addition to my bookmarks, these will also be on sale during MICA’s Annual Art Market.  December 9-12, 10am to 6pm in the Brown Center.

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Personal Scriptures

Handwoven cloth: Pickup with Twill An exploration of religious meditation and personal symbolic referencing through folk-based storytelling. Considers the magical quality of objects in the act of creation and the power of faith in placing importance on objects.

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Shrine

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Sample: Supplementary Weft

Suplementary weft: to add in weft separate from or in addition to the given weft. As you can see, in the weaving above I have alternately supplemented the weft of the tabby (far right), the actual weave structure, both simutaneously (the middle section), and in place of the weft (the bright green to the left [...]

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The Feather of Finist the Bright Falcon- The Maiden

More about this costume here.

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Maine Afternoon- Wall Hanging

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Memory Cloth

I never got around to posting a nice photograph of my unwrinkled weaving final, so here it is. Initially, I was not pleased with how this piece came out, but more and more, as I’ve looked at it without the projection, and run it through my hands, I have come to accept it and call [...]

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Weaving: Finished Product, No Sewing

This is a small change purse I wove for my grandmother’s birthday. The really neat thing about it? There was no sewing involved. The entire purse was woven in doublecloth: for the main body of the piece, the cloth was woven with two seams, one on the right and one on the left, creating a [...]

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The Secret Lives of Puppets

This video is my latest stop motion- a companion piece to the physical object of my Puppets and Prosthetics final project. The assignment was “The Secret Lives of Puppets,” and my goal was to have the cloth move while still on the loom as a sort of past life to the eventual fate of the [...]

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Dimensional Weaving

These images are from a small sample I did for my weaving class in preparation for our final. Because I completed a full double cloth sampler last semester, this semester I was asked to focus on dimensional weaving, or the stuffing of woven pockets during the creation of the cloth. Double Cloth is a process [...]

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