Two trips to Mexico have had a crucial impact on the textile artist's expression. In this interview, she talks about her fascination with Mexican visual culture.
At Lundsgaard Estate in Kerteminde, 32 artists and three curators have put textile art at the centre of the exhibition ‘This New World - Mostly Textile’. With 40 works and four site-specific installations, the potential of textiles as both an artistic and social medium is explored in an exhibition that balances the historical with […]
In this 504-page treatise, Mikkel Venborg Pedersen, senior researcher and head of the Textile and Dress Collection at the National Museum of Denmark, and Marie Riegels Melchior, PhD, associate professor at the Saxo Institute, present the history of Danish fashion, including a cornucopia of paintings, photographs, newspaper clippings, copperplates, reliefs and everyday photos of […]
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[…] touch the things we form.’ - Anni Albers Now, why would I open an essay about craft and digitization with a quotation by the Bauhaus weaver and textile designer Anni Albers? The Danish encyclopaedia Den Store Danske defines craft as a symbiosis of art and technique, a practice that involves the shaping of both […]
[…] takes her point of departure at Design School Kolding (DSKD), where she is a teaching associate professor and thus has first-hand insight into the mindset of the new craft makers and designers. At the school, the new generation of makers and designers generate new potentials for the textile field that we can all learn from.
Micro-factories Micro-factories connect multiple production links, for example textile production, printing and sewing or shredding textiles and spinning the fibres into new yarns for textile production. Several ongoing experiments are currently looking into the capacity of micro-factories to make local production profitable and to contribute to more sustainable production. The paramount problem in the […]
Weaver Sanne Ransby talks about her inspiration and how textiles can contribute with humanity, aesthetics and a practical function in public spaces. Her works are represented in Østre Landsret in Copenhagen and in Generationernes Hus on Aarhus Ø.
Everyone probably knows that many textiles are made by human hands. However, it can be forgotten or it can fade into the background. Even if you're a designer. Sia Hurtigkarl knows this. Because that's what she is, a designer, and the kind that specialises in textiles. ‘When you get far enough away from the […]
[…] It works better at a craft-driven spinning mill like the one we've established today. It works in such a way that we spin the wool from each animal separately, between one and five kilos, and thus we challenge both the fashion industry and textile craftsmen. Because it means that each batch is different in color.'
