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Crafts: Textiles
Textiles is a generic term for fabrics made by weaving, knitting, crocheting, knotting or felting. What possibilities are open to craftspeople who work with textiles?
Needle Lace
Needle lace or point lace is a type of lace created using a needle and thread. The outline of the design is couched over the lines of a paper pattern and filled with different stitches and specific lacemaking techniques. The paper is then removed: the new piece of lace can hold its shape without this support. Many small pieces are joined to create a large piece of point lace.
Pillow or Bobbin Lace
Pillow or bobbin lace is made by weaving a great many fine parallel threads in various ways. The threads are wound round bobbins which lie flat beside one another; there may actually be hundreds of them. The lace is made on a paper pattern on a soft base. The detailed patterns are made using pins that are pricked into the paper.
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Tapestry or Gobelin Weaving
There are many different techniques for weaving images. Large tapestries made in the west were woven on vertical looms holding the warp, a set of tensioned threads of one colour. Parallel threads at right angles – the weft-threads – are laid in one by one. The weft, put in by hand, creates the design. A pattern known as a cartoon placed immediately behind the warp showed precisely where each colour had to be woven in. Several weavers sat side by side to weave a wide tapestry.
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Macramé
Macramé is often associated with plant holders in trendy sixties interiors. In fact it is a centuries-old technique – somewhat similar to bobbin lace – where thick parallel cords or ropes are knotted together in a wide variety of ways. The result can be made into a simple string bag or plant hanger, but also into an intricate but usually symmetrical wall hanging.
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A selection of textile objects
The Future of Fashion is Now - Dolci & Kabana. Since 2012, under the name D&K (Dolci & Kabana) - a fictional commercial label – Ricarda Bigolin and Nella Themelios (Australia) have developed their 'Brand Delusions': a series of activist installations that expose all the facets of a brand identity. More information