Chain Reaction

Chain Reaction

A contemporary installation of hand weaving

by members of Professional Weavers Network of New Zealand

Chain Reaction 

(photos by Agnes Hauptli)

Professional Weavers Network is a group of weavers whose aim is to ensure textiles are promoted and recognised as a vibrant, exciting and high quality contemporary art form.

Chain Reaction is an installation reflecting a chain reaction of colour.  Each piece incorporates two dominant colours in the design - one to be incorporated in the piece to the left and the other in the piece to the right.  The colours echo along the installation.

As well as exhibiting the skill and creativity of 22 weavers, the work will be viewed as one continuous piece of art that will reflect the communication and co-operation of individual members of PWN.

 Waves
Dianne Dudfield

I received a quantity of pale to mid blue 110/2 wool from my weaving neighbour.  I paired this with a navy blue and tied on to a warp already on my loom, a parallel (or echo) threading.  I then changed the tieup and treadling as I wove to decrease the wave size.  My wefts were olive and turquoise and I passed the turquoise on to my other neighbour who then used that in her warp.
We also sent samples of our yarns to two of our tapestry weavers and they encorporated them in their tapestries, seen at either end of the display.

Chain Reaction was first displayed at Refinery Gallery in Nelson and is now at Te Ahu Centre in Northland.  It will travel to Mahara Gallery in Waikanae in August.

Navy teal possum wrap

The wheels of weaving wind slowly.  (And blogging even slower!)

I posted this picture on facebook weeks ago and got great reaction but have been very slow to tell you about it.

Slow partly because I couldn't figure out how to finish the ends.  The warp is alternating threads of navy and taupe and the weft a teal.  The tassels just didn't look right.  Took me ages to figure out I could add a thread or two of teal to the fringe and that pulled the wrap together.  The tassels now look like they belong.  I can tell you it took ages to undo the navy taupe tassels.

The fibre is possum merino silk and look at the twist in the untasseled threads; makes me want to try some shibori as it would hold the texture.

Wrap woven as an echo weave.