NEWS

Textile artist Outi Martikainen recently installed her works at an off-gallery space in Helsinki, Finland. The space was open for visitors until the 30th of September, 2020, during which she received very positive feedback. Outi is among the most prominent artists in Finland and one of the characteristics of her creations is the unconventional way in which she interprets materials and spaces.

The way in which we participate in the Arts is changing. While on the one hand, artists and communities are finding new ways to keep the discourse alive, on the other, the global audience is yearning for and demanding an experience that’s beyond the four walls. From the physical space, Art is now transcending into the virtual.

UK-based Fiber Artist Belinda Rose shares a few thoughts about her recent work on Deflected Double Weave (DDW), sometimes known as false double weave. It reflects not only the power of the TC2 loom but an experimental approach to weaving that the TC2 offers.

German textile designer and weaver Lucia Schwalenberg was recently a part of the Beiderwand-Weaving Workshop where the participants explored the historic weave pattern. The workshop took place at the “Stiftung Mensch” (Foundation Man), which is located in the authentic building-complex “Altes Pastorat” in Meldorf, Schleswig-Holstein (Germany).

Among the many high-points of 2020 so far, the most overwhelming for us at Digital Weaving Norway was our trip to Premiere Vision Paris – yes, the TC2 loom was there! For three days, February 11 through 13, our little 1-wide demo loom stood pretty and created quite a buzz among the who’s who of the fashion world.

A team of six researchers from the University of the Philippines was with us at Digital Weaving Norway to learn about the Digitization of Textiles on the TC2 loom! The visit was a part of the ongoing CordiTex project that aims at exploring different approaches in the social and natural sciences to analyze traditional textiles and examine how they are transformed in the contemporary period.

A team of six researchers from the University of the Philippines was with us at Digital Weaving Norway to learn about the Digitization of Textiles on the TC2 loom! The visit was a part of the ongoing CordiTex project that aims at exploring different approaches in the social and natural sciences to analyze traditional textiles and examine how they are transformed in the contemporary period.

The TC2 loom was in Madrid in the last week of November, as a part of 8th meeting of the Ibero-American Design Biennial(BID). Fiber Artist and DWN’s representative in Spain Francesca Piñol was at the Biennial, where she presented the loom to artists, academicians and designs students through a Masterclass and a Digital Weaving Workshop. And from what we hear, the TC2 charmed its audience at the event!

After a successful three-month run at the prestigious Galerie Lafayette Anticipations in Paris, the Interlace textile research exhibit by Dutch-designer (and TC2 owner) Hella Jongerius came to a close on September 6, 2019. The objective of this initiative was to expose the viewing public to the textile production process in order to create awareness, re-valuation and appreciation for textiles.

The Summer workshops at The Jacquard Center, conducted by Cathryn Amidei, are something that we at Digital Weaving Norway love to keep a track of! This year, there were four workshops in all, which commenced on May 27^th  and concluded on July 12, 2019.

The Summer workshops at The Jacquard Center, conducted by Cathryn Amidei, are something that we at Digital Weaving Norway love to keep a track of! This year, there were four workshops in all, which commenced on May 27^th  and concluded on July 12, 2019.

In March-end, we were at the Nordic Textile Meeting in Iceland. Organised by Nordic Textile Art and Icelandic Textile Association, the program that spanned over six days was packed with conferences and workshops and in attendance were textile artists and designers from cross-disciplinary backgrounds.

Earlier this year, the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz (Poland) got a TC2 loom – the first in the country! The loom was primarily for the research project of Professor  Dominika Krogulska-Czekalska, the Head of the Studio of Decorative Textile at the Academy.

Our representative in the US, Cathryn Amidei, was in China for three weeks in December. She was there to give the staff and students at the China Art Academy in Hangzhou a refresher training workshop on “Digital Weaving on the TC2”. And from what she tells us, it was quite an enriching experience! The School got two TC2s in 2017 and Vibeke Vestby and Helle Ekaas from DWN were there for a training way back then as well.

As more and more TC2 looms find new owners, there’s a constant need to get them to discover the loom to its true potential through training, and these past weeks Vibeke Vestby been doing just that! First she was at the Textile Society of America’s Symposium, where she took a post-conference Jacquard Weaving Workshop. Then, she was at Konstfack in Sweden and lastly she visited the Design School at Kolding (Denmark).

In the Summer of 2018, a series of four training workshops were offered in the newly-renovated professional studio space at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Cathryn Amidei from Digital Weaving USA conducted the workshops and guess what, all of it happened on the brand new TC2!