Concept/Inspiration/Sketchbook

Concept

Why and How.

When I arrived in the United Kingdom it was not altogether certain whether I would join weaving or knitting courses. However, after a short period of time I started to feel at home in the weaving workshop. Endowed with knowledge about the theory but little hands-on experience, I accepted the challenge. One day, I was thinking about the fascinating options offered by weaving and the specific direction to take, an old fairy tale from childhood days came to my mind. It was the tale about Arianrhod, a welsh goddess, weaving the tread of life through the passage of time. I see this as a metaphor for the process of weaving.

The night scene is being weaved by mysterious hands.
A blanket of indigo thread bedecks the evening sky growing shades darker as twilight approaches as each twinkle of starlight, each cricket chirp accompanies this weaver as she weaves through the night.
A nocturnal weaving created by mysterious hands
The weaving that changes every night.
Not one masterpiece is the same from day to day.
Who creates this masterwork each night?
No one but Arianrhod, mistress of the silver wheel, queen of the night.


Http://www.fictionpress.com/s/1878879/1/Nocturnal_weaving_of_Arianrhod



From this moment, the figure of Arianrhod often accompanied my thoughts during the preparations of my weave, connecting my work with the life cycle.



Yet another thought that came to my mind is the fact that the industrial revolution was initiated by a series of innovations in the textile industry.



At the beginning of this development, James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny in 1764. In 1785, Edmond Cartwright's fully-autmatic Power Loom was built. Joseph-Marie Jacquard improved the concept significantly in 1805, including Vaucansons' controlling mechanism. In 1830 the first self-acting water or steam-powered spinning mule was comissioned.
The invention of the weaving loom as well as spinning machine can be seen as one of the important milestones of industrial revolution. Production conditions were changed substantially, and homeworkers had to start to earn their living as factory employees. As a consequence living condition deteriorated an labor unrest emerged.
So it could be said that weaving has developed organicaly and influenced the way people have lived.



On one hand, weaving is synonymous with ancient knowledge – hand crafted, intuitive yet consciously bringing together the creation of patterns – on the other hand, it represents productivity, technology, and progress.


I decided to focus my work to this topic: to blend together nature and technology through both design and weaving process. Owing to my personal interests, the aforementioned associations and research, I chose the following project title: laLine, a natural way of technology

a natural way of technology


After deciding on my concept and choosing the yarns (a mix of natural and synthetic fibres), I began to search for visual keys.

Here, the source of my inspiration was 1) nature, 2) technology, and 3) weaving







Microscopic imagery and organic forms served as building blocks for my designs. At the microscopic level, the human body offered a plethora of visual stimuli, such as bizarre pictures of hair, nerve cells, and DNA, all which are not visible to the naked eye. To give a presentation of technology I worked with synthetic yarn like Glow in the dark yarn and Old VHS Videotape. The fluorescent effects gives the fabric the opportunity to change the image depending of day- and night time.The videotape has been chosen to introduce the idea of recycling, and as account of the speed with which technologies are rendered obsolete.


Sketchbook









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