It’s almost six weeks after my surgery, and recovery going very well. I’m entering this stage of feeling serenity in my identity. My body resonates in the same wavelength as my brain. I think this is the best moment to launch A Story of Unfolding Wings 🦋 online!You can view the movie here:https://astoryofunfoldingwings.com Violin was […]
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A Story of Unfolding Wings Nederlandse versie hier. In the last few months, everything has come together. I wove a fifth cloth for the chapters Unmasked and Serenity, I went with Noa to the textile workshop NOOF in Eindhoven to embroider the titles, and Eefje played in the final soundtrack recordings, with Jasper’s help. And
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Nederlandse versie hier. During my research project Weaving Glitches, I came up with my own weaving technique. I call it a weaving technique because it is a different way of designing than usual. It is quite simple in the basics, and yet I see very few fabrics designed this way. There are certainly advanced weavers
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Nederlandse versie hier. In the third cloth I wove for my Weaving Glitches research, I wanted to explore even further how to weave particular patterns and structures on sixteen shafts. The construction of the warp consists of five lanes, each of which is a kind of mixture of the network and echo weaving technique. Actually,
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Nederlandse versie hier. Obsessed with the little patterns I found in cloth one, I decided to devote the second cloth to that. But then on sixteen shafts, because my new loom was in. What fascinated me about the patterns was, on the one hand, how some were almost pixel-like, as can occur with graphic glitches.
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Nederlandse versie hier. In the first cloth for my Weaving Glitches research, I tried to almost literally implement graphic computer glitches into a weave. I used black lines in the warp, which sometimes reoccur in the wefts. Furthermore, I used diagonal arrangements in the warp in different variations, and something based on the echo weaving
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Nederlandse versie hier. While looking for interesting structures to weave, I came across Eva Stossel’s moiré experiment. She was building on experiments and work by Verda Elliott to obtain the moiré effect in weaves. I was immediately fascinated. Only I did have a problem, the technique explained there is meant for a 16 shaft loom
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Using the padlock from which I received a photograph of Le Jardin Victor as a starting point, I wove a fairy tale and a weave that together report on my discovery a transgender woman and my transition.Nederlandse versie hier. It never really seemed special to her, the antique padlock. That’s sometimes how it is with
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