this time last year

work from the Fellowship Exhibition 2010. Icelandic landscape inspired embroidery pieces. Each were hand painted warp, hand woven and hand embroidered. 

this piece was my favorite i think. it says "it calls" in Icelandic. 

weave away

 hand spun and naturally dyed with cochineal, safflower + weld, and indigo

 final double weave in progress

views of the weaving studio with sarah, kara, and rachel working hard at their looms

iceland embroidery

these are recent works that i completed for the juried fellowship exhibition at my school. i proposed to travel to iceland this summer to study the landscape for my work. each image is inspired by specific locations in iceland known for their stunning landscape that i had planned to travel to. i dyed the warped threads, hand wove the fabric and embroidered on the surface. the phrase "pad kallar" means "it calls" in icelandic. i know the images are terrible, so bare with me...the color washed out a lot, i swear they are actually more brilliant than this!

Ikat

our first project for woven design, resisted ikat warps with a simple pattern