Shows

Convergence 2002 - Textile Tides
August 1-4, Vancouver, B.C, Canada

Street Banner
 

Street Banners

every year the City of Vancouver commissions decorative banners to decorate streets and bridges during the summer-for 2002 the Greater Vancouver Weavers' and Spinners' Guild designed these graphic representations of the interlacement of threads, "Woven Rhythms"-the complete story and all designs with weaving drafts can be viewed on the Vancouver guild site http://anwg.org

Convergence 2002- Our Booth

Convergence 2002 Booth   Convergence 2002 Booth

Convergence 2002 - Some sample of  textiles creations

Hand-painted Tencel warp outfit
Shawl by Inge Dam
Interesting closure idea
Candy Barbag & Lindsay Hager from Florida wove and designed this fashion show outfit from our hand-painted Tencel warps.
Inge Dam, from Ontario, Canada, designed this shawl for the Convergence exhibit which has two tablet woven bands within the shawl fabric.
An interesting closure idea-cording worked into half a frog closure with loop to enclose a beautiful button, ends of cord has beaded tassel fringes
Outfit by Anita Mayer
 
Shibori by Catherine Muerdter
Anita Luvera Mayer designed this outfit which has ½" squares of mixed fabrics sandwiched between fine net and organza and then all are machine stitched to hold everything in place-some sequins were also added. Close-up of Anita Mayer's work

Catherine Ellis Muerdter submitted this outfit to the fashion show-cotton/polyester handwoven shibori resist.

 

NUNO fabric exhibit from Japan (just a few examples)

Nuno: Scrapeyard
Nuno: Stained glass
Nuno: Dots

Scrapyard

iron oxide-our common garden variety rust-oxides fibres over time, effectively print-dyeing the fabric-one can vary placement of metal scraps and length of "weathering" time

 

Stained glass

extremely fine doubleweave of cotton and polyester, the cotton face is burned out with acid in places to create the window panes and expose the blocks of colour on the polyester side.

 

Dots

tiny dotted patterns embroidered and the skip stitched threadlines between the dots were kept instead of being cut away and used as a design element.

 

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