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Textile Tools

Series of line rubbings of textile tools; wooden block print and various yarns.
paper, graphite
8.5" X 11"

Fraser Valley Sky

Merino/angora, linen.
Hand-woven shag, dyed with acid dyes.  Pulled warp and pile weaving techniques.
life-size

Fraser Valley Sky I

PPS manipulated.
Photograph

Fraser Valley Sky II

Linen, wool, cotton.
Hand-woven tapestry, dyed with acid dyes.
6X6 inches
see more of the Fraser Valley series here


Radical Hospitality

Cotton.
Hand-woven jacquard.
56X24 inches

Printed Yardage

Detail of a printed yardage of pencil rubbings of my grandmas wedding dress.
pigment on cotton
9 X 7.5 Feet
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Reinvented

Wool.
Screen print on warp and hand-woven fabric.
18X36 inches

Gillian Feeley-Harnik Quote

Cotton.
Embroidery.
8x8 inches
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Fragments of a Dress That Belonged to Two
December 2,  2010

snap-shots of the installation.
see the video here.


Printed fabric 8X7 feet

Prints on acetate manipulated by Janna Vallee with the help of a  friend

Photographs of both Clara Nygren (Janna's grandma) and Janna .  Some photos include them in their shared wedding dress.















Community Loom
snapshots of video documentation
December 2, 2010


Community Loom was first my attempt at creating a loom where the tension that the warp threads were under is made by a person on each end of it.  In this case I was on one end weaving with a back-strap, while my classmates each had a back strap and one warp thread to be in charge of.  In this community effort it was serendipitous that the Canadian Government had made a donation of lamp-post banners from cities across the country.  These banners were used as the weft as well as back-straps for everyone who participated.  Everyone took their back-strap home as a reminder of their participation in the project.

more pictures and a video to come soon.