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Woven works by US-based Rachel Meginnes!

Woven works by US-based Rachel Meginnes!
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July 4, 2022
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In this issue of our “What’s on Your Loom” series, we feature the works of US-based fiber artist Rachel Meginnes. Rachel has been a weaver since 1995, when she learned to weave in high school. She studied ikat, rag-weaving, and indigo dyeing in Japan, shaft-switch rug weaving in downeast Maine (USA) and has spent the past 20 years working between textiles and painting. Rachel tells about her story so far and about her recent project, woven on her TC1 loom…

I was lucky enough to be able to purchase a used TC1 from a fellow and dear-to-me weaver during the early months of the Pandemic. Although the Pandemic was full of stress and challenges all around, one of the bright spots for me was being able to purchase this loom. I first worked on a TC2 at Penland School of Craft when I took a class from Cathryn Amidei in 2016. Working on the digital loom was truly love at first sight for me and I had been working towards getting one ever since.

In 2018, I made a decisive shift to bring my work back to the loom and have been expanding upon the bodies of works I created using old quilts by incorporating them into my weavings as my primary materials.

Works…

Pictured below are the first four pieces off of my digital loom. Each one is woven using a cotton warp and wefts of repurposed quilt tops, battings, and backings. My digital imagery and structures are sourced from images I have taken of the original quilts as well as from imagery I have found around me in my home environment.

I have oft referenced The Woven Pixel, co-authored by Bhakti Ziek and Alice Schlein, for weavefile instructions and am happily creating away using two laptops, an ancient one that directs my TC1 and a new one that allows me to create my files fluidly in Photoshop.

About…

I received my BA in Art from Earlham College in 1999 and my MFA in Fibers from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2005, spending two years studying traditional Japanese textile processes in Morioka, Japan. From 2005 – 2011, I co-owned and operated an international rug company based out of Sikkim, India and Seattle, WA. In 2012, I was awarded a three-year residency at Penland School of Craft that shifted my home base to North Carolina. My artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally and can be found in the collections of the United States Art in Embassies Program in Amman, Jordan, the University of Arkansas, the Cameron Art Museum, and more. I currently live in Bakersville, NC where I split my time between my studio practice and coaching other artists and creatives towards their full potential.

Links…

Website, Instagram,

Video featuring Rachel’s weaving project, which was supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. Photographs and Video by Loam, LLC, 2022.

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