Line, 2018
Cotton, polyamide monofilament, wool, elastic.
In Line, contrasting materials are woven together --stiff monofilament, soft wool, and shrinking elastic. The design is defined by small hexagonal pockets of double-weave, punctuated by a span of stiff single-weave. This loom-woven textile has been aggressively finished in a hot machine wash, felting the wool, and forcing the monofilament out from the textile surface in loops. This artifact arose from a series of experiments exploring form morphologies and material behaviour when combining two yarns with shrinking potential with a stiff yarn, and how different finishing techniques could alter the form-making relationship between the materials within the textile.
(Selections from) Rectangle, 2018
Cotton, linen, polyamide monofilament, paper tape yarn, elastic
The nine textile artifacts that make up Rectangle explore how structure and material combine with finishing processes (steaming, washing, tumble drying) to produce different morphologies of form. They are transformative textiles woven flat on the loom, with the potential for three-dimensional form embedded in the interaction between structure and material. The paper yarn’s behaviour is fundamentally altered through finishing --from stiff, to soft when tumbled dried, or felting when washed at high temperatures. Meanwhile the stiff monofilament resists the shrinkage of the elastic yarn, deforming the rectangular plane of the textile.
Lahore, 2021.