by London Kaye

Museum exhibit

The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD)  KNITTING NATION Phase 15: Weaving Walls, a time-based installation and live labor performance by textile artist and designer Liz Collins. 

Collins and a "factory crew" of six professional weaving artists and designers transformed the Museum's atrium and lobby into a knitting and weaving factory, creating a continuous soft wall that will climb the Museum stairwell as the day progressed. 

The performance explored the dynamic relationship between textile and architecture, performance and collectivity, and considers apparel manufacturing and human labor.

Purple knit scarf

Chef Decorates Cookies with Intricate Embroidery-Inspired Designs

More here.

Pushing the Boundaries of Embroidery

This embroidered bucket is by 
Severija Inčirauskaitė-Kriaunevičienė.
More of her work here.


More from Meredith Woulnough here.

Even more artists here.

Beauty - Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial

Knitted Pavillion. Can be used outdoors to absorb light from the sun during the day and release it at night.

Miracle Chips by Michael Anastassiades.

These "thin marble discs that successively curl in an abstract study of materiality."

A study in materiality?  What isn't a study in materiality?

Nice scarf on a nice man

"Blooks: The Art of Books That Aren't,"

Exhibit at the Grolier Library

New baby arrives

For Omer Rubin, my nephew's Israeli daughter.
Pattern: from the tv show, CALL THE MIDWIFE.
Panda: a good try but not good enough to send.

Potholders

2016 gift for a good cook.

THESE TEXTILES TELL A CULTURAL HISTORY

"MANDELA MANDALA"

Title credit: HRG.

"African textiles are distinctive for their vibrant colors, bold patterns, and batik dyes that give the fabric a unique crackled texture. But I had no idea that some of the trendiest of these prints are actually designed and produced in the Netherlands by a company called Vlisco."

More here.

This pattern featuring iPods is another, more recent example of a print that incorporates technology and modern life while maintaining Vlico's classic batik style. This pattern is popular in Nigeria. 

by Hillary Fayle. More here.

Textile Exhibit at the Met

In October, I joined this Metropolitan Museum employee for lunch and a look at this interdisciplinary exhibition:

“Fashion and Virtue: Textile Patterns and the Print Revolution, 1520–1620” 

The exhibition brings together a combination of printed pattern books, drawings, textile samples, costumes, paintings, and various other works of art to evoke the colorful world in which the Renaissance textile pattern books first emerged and functioned.

Charity knitting

Once a month I visit the store, Knitty City, and join the group BIG APPLE KNITS. This is their logo.



We crochet and knit for charity and it is great fun.  Belonging to the group is a young woman I knew as a student at PS 87, her mother ... and Marjory, who I worked with at A&E back in the 1980s!

Some stuff I made for a baby shelter:

Brooklyn Fiber Festival

Weather wise its such a lovely day.  Took an Autumn trip out to Brooklyn to see pretty colors and change my latitude and attitude.

“Neofunky crochet fine textile art“

Crochet artist Xenobia Bailey.  More here.

Bunny Red Ears

Fabric from Hannah's old flannel nightie 

Amigurumi created at Cranberry Lake

To donate to needy children via the Big Apple Knits group that meets in Knitty City every month.

Post script in December 2015 - Gave Tseitl, the turtle, to Hannah's grandfather as he was recovering from open heart surgery in the hospital.

Shawl!

Appealing image