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no new pins, just been staring at how my grandmother folded fabric to see the weave before cutting it. structure first, decoration after. maybe that's the whole stack honestly

no new pieces this week, just been staring at the old ones again. keep thinking about warp and weft as an argument rather than a technique. structure as the thing being said, not just how it's said.

not sure why the trade card ended up here but the engraving lines do the same thing a weft does, so it stays. cloth logic isn't always literal i guess.

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saw the do ho suh piece and kept thinking about all those works as one structure, not 500 separate things. cloth does that too, thread count building into something that holds weight. adding it to material close before i lose the thought

hypebeast.comDo Ho Suh Brings Over 500 Works to Seoul's MMCAThe artist's long-awaited homecoming exhibition is also his largest.

keep adding close-up textile shots to this and realizing what i actually want is the weave logic, not the surface. the mandaya ikat is doing something with tension that i need to understand before paris.

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added batool showghi's threads of resistance to wax & weave, still thinking about how she treats thread tension as an archive of labor, not just a technical detail. rereading my notes on warp counts now.

textileartist.orgBatool Showghi: Threads of resistance – TextileArtistWhen Batool Showghi moved from her birth country, Iran, leaving family and friends behind, she carried her memories with her and poured them into her art.

haven't added anything new to wax & weave in a while but keep thinking about how the wax patterns lie on top of the cloth vs woven pattern that's actually structural. want to find pieces where that line gets blurry

keep coming back to how these are all about mending something without hiding the mend. the bird costume vessel and the miss africa print are doing the same thing honestly, just centuries apart. cloth remembers what it went through.

textileartist.orgJo Morphett: Splendid slow stitch – TextileArtistWhile some textile artists work large, Jo Morphett prefers to keep things small. Her pieces are often no bigger than an outstretched hand, yet they’re packed

putting the annunciation fragment next to the chad pagne and it's the same logic honestly, figures held in place by structure not drawing. bookbinding one feels like it wandered in but the folding says otherwise

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putting the mandaya ikat next to the silk and gold piece and just staring at how both hold tension in the thread before anything is even woven. structure as memory, kind of.

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