Belinda Rose’s travelogue from Norway and Denmark
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Scotland-based Belinda Rose visited friends and took an artist’s residency at Fosslekleiva Kultursenter in Norway before participating in the World Wide Weavers Exhibition at the Nicolai Kunst and Design in Kolding, Denmark which shows until 18th April. Here she shares some of her experiences.
Akler (image above)
Starting with a traditional bedspread, an ‘Akler’, an heirloom belonging to a family friend. You can see there is a ground weft and a pattern weft extending beyond the warp to form fringes. Ideas for fringes coming up.
Seen above are viscous teeth for gripping the edge of woven cloth as it winds onto the loom at the Berger Museum associated with Fosslekeliva.
The two following images are development designs documented in Berger Museum, Norway:
Brocaded Tablet Weaving
Some of Belinda’s brocaded tablet weaving experiments woven during the residency. Usually tablet weaving shows only the warp threads. In brocading, an extra weft forms decorative patterning.
Belinda visited a weekly evening class for bunad making in the Porsgrunn Husflid. Bunad is the national folk costume in Norway. Many young people enthusiastically wear it for special occasions such as weddings and other celebrations. At the course many grandmothers, and one father, were working hard making costumes from scratch. The two images below show the fastidious hand-embroidered decoration for a grandson’s waistcoat.
The images below are of a needle-woven piece by rug weaver, Anette Bendixen.
The World Wide Weavers ( exhibition in Denmark)
The exhibition features tests and experiments woven by six jacquard weavers from 5 countries:
Monique Van Nieuwland
Monique’s long hanging Magna Carta, expressing visually human rights, shelter, clothing food, free speech, clean air and water.
Grethe Sorensen
Grethe shows some experiments with structure and movement in woven monofilament. These pieces are stable and easily imagined in use as room dividers or screens.
Lise Frølund
The image to the left is of a large scale piece, woven in 6 layers, a folding hanging of figures moving. The second image (on the right) is of a narrow piece, rendering materially the sounds of a lullaby. Many metres long, jacquard woven, with only 16 ends. Read more here .
Lia Cook
Lia shows self portraits from childhood including one where the response of the audience has been overlaid in diagonal grids across a new woven version of the work.
Wen-Ying Huang
Wen- Ying’s panels of natural scenes use reflective yarns mixed with other yarns, and also yarns only visible under infra red light. The pieces are full of added movement when viewed under direct or infra red light.
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- Woven self-portrait by Lia Cook
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- Wen-Ying’s panels of natural scenes
Belinda
Belinda wove some test scarves experimenting with layers, making scarves two three and four times the width of her loom. She also wove non-rectangular pieces in two layers with triangular ends, moving the selvedges across the width of the warp. The artists each contributed to a video showing at the exhibition, which you can watch here: LINK
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