February 24, 2011

Time Tapestries

Time Tapestries

Here is what became of the small tapestry frames I was making- four infographic time tapestries, each representing four different spans of days. Each color represents a different activity, with certain colors being threaded throughout the series. The yellow-gold, for instance, represents eating. And the darker purple/navy represent sleep. The warp was calculated for it's full capacity of yarn and then divided into hours based on how many days I would try to fit into each frame. One hour was about 1.5" of yarn. So each activity was recorded, measured, and woven into each frame.


October 13-18: The first was done over a wedding weekend in Bucks County, PA. The turquoise here represents socializing, the cream hygiene like brushing teeth, showering, etc, and the orange dancing, or exercise. So the third day from the top is the wedding day, made obvious by the gigantic amount of time getting ready and then hours of eating followed by dancing.

Time Tapestry


October 27-November 1: The second tapestry was made during another wedding weekend in Newport, Rhode Island, only two weeks after the first. I enjoyed changing the palette each time, seeing the different relationships between colors and the random patterns made with each quantity of time.

Time Tapestry


November 9-16: The third tapestry was made during a hum-drum week in New York, with the gray representing the workday, a splash of ocre for meals, and the last two days filled with turquoise socializing and brick television/movie watching. Must have been a cold weekend!

Time Tapestry


November 23-28: The last tapestry so far in this series was done over Thanksgiving weekend while visiting my grandparents in Yorktown, Virginia. Full days of turquoise socializing peppered with navy naps (in the second and fifth days) and a whole lot of food (yellow). My favorite holiday!
Time Tapestry


I believe I'll continue this series- the frames were really satisfying to make, and weaving on the subway is a lot of fun. And I still have a lot of yarn left over!

February 22, 2011

Woolen City : Wearable Architecture

Woolen City

The last weeks of 2010 were a whirlwind of working. I've been meaning to post all the works bit by bit, and here's the first. This is one I've been working on for quite some time, and I greatly underestimated how much work it would be. It's a Woolen City: wearable wire wrapped in grey wool yarn. After constructing the armature, I built up pyramids, domes, towers, skyscrapers, caves and arches. Each bit of wire was then wrapped in grey wool yarn, creating a slightly fuzzy line drawing of architecture. It's a wearable urban structure that has just a bit of coziness from the yarn, and the citizen wearing it can feel the scale of a city/citizen relationship shift.

Woolen City

Woolen City

Woolen City

Woolen City




February 14, 2011

Architecturally Woven Scarves

grape & heather gray scarf | wine & dark heather gray scarf

After a hectic end of the year, I am finally ready to get back to daily life- seeing friends, cooking, eating good food, and setting up shop. I have opened one here with architecturally handwoven scarves made of wool, merino, cotton and tencel. It has been a long time in the making, but they are now ready!

Alexander's wine & dark heather gray scarf

It is amazing to see them all together, ready to be wrapped around necks! Winter in the northern hemisphere, of course, is about halfway over, but cool days are still ahead! The wine & dark heather gray scarf is a sleeker, shorter scarf, while the grape & heather gray scarf is ready to wrap multiple times around your neck. The cerulean and gray scarf is reversible and the widest of the bunch.

Karenina's reversible cerulean & gray scarf

I wish I could keep them all, but they must go out into the world to keep others warm! For more photos, visit my flickr at www.flickr.com/spaceandstructure.

Sonya's grape and heather gray scarf