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fibre Quarterly volume 3 issue 1 winter 2007 |
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Design Show 2007
IDS07 OFFSPRING - INSPIRED BY NATURE, featuring up and coming Canadian designers. This is ANNACLOTE DESIGN concept space "an exercise in creating a modern re interpretation of surviving in the outdoors without being wasteful" featuring Studio North designer Lilly Yung's Tendril drapery panels As this issue was being put to bed two events were happening in Toronto: the Interior Design Show 07 at the Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place and Come Up to My Room at the Gladstone Hotel. This years Studio North component of the IDS07 which presents the “most creative” in Canadian design and designer/ makers provides the jumping off point for this column. The wide range of application, texture, technique, form and function of the textiles featured in the Studio North section of the IDS07 was a mix of high quality traditional practice (weaving and printing) along side dynamic and innovative new product lines. Un-spun wool, industrial felt, store bought yardage, linen, wool and silk yarn, drapery panels, table runners, napkins, pillows and even a felted wool lamp with Canadian Safety Standards approval. All stunning decorative objects, stained, printed, felted, die cut, linked, woven and wired. |
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Marlene
Guenther, Designer-Maker “…the award for students
participating in the Emerging Producers Showcase. …"Emerging
Artist of the Year" …The winner was Marlene Guenther, a
textile major from Vancouver who is a student at the Nova Scotia
College of Art and Design”. A researcher and craft practitioner, Marlene Guenther is thorough in lamps are felted wool shade on recycled wood base with an organic shape reminiscent of a flame or flower bud. The felted wool is from a
specific breed of sheep that is rare and was originally brought over
from England and is now raised in small numbers on a few farms. It
is sourced from 3 family run farms (2 from Nova Scotia and 1 in
British Columbia). The fibre has a long staple length, and has been
through the inspection and approval process with Canadian Safety
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Source
UK Carpets www.sourceuk.ca “
custom carpets designed by Canadian artist hand made in Nepal and
brought home as art you can walk on” Conceived as original and
custom accents for interiors and produced in wool and/ or silk this
is a given practice in the U.S. and England but not especially known
in Canada. Companies such as Weavers Art and Avenue Rug who also had
booths in the main part of the exhibition hall both have
contemporary production lines designed in house or commissioned in
collaboration with interior or product designers, but this is not
the same philosophy as Source UK. Speaking with Kate Thornly –Hall
about the tradition I mention the artist designed hooked rugs
produced by the graphic advertising company Reactor
art +Design in the
80’s. ( it is unfortunate that a web archive of this work is not
available on the Reactor site) Barbra Klunder was one of the artist
whose work was use to create a number of these rugs and has added
rug hooking to her creative out put, but on a much smaller scale. The artist she is currently
working with are print makers from Open Studio, one being Doug
Gilford whose obsessive ongoing crocheted , nets, baskets where seen
at the FRAY exhibition last summer/fall at the Textile Museum of
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Lilly Yung's Tendril drapery panels [photo provided by Lilly Yung] |
| In the past few years the die cut felt jewellery of
Lilly Yung has been making its appearance in exhibitions along with
her other jewellery work. At this years IDS she launched her new
line of die cut felt accessories Tendril. The collection includes cushions, necklaces,
bracelets, bags, center pieces, wall hangings and space dividers. An
industrial process that in other circumstances would produce waist
provides Yung with both a positive and negative shape to
manipulate into various end products, nothing is wasted.
No additional hardware is required for the production as these assemblages and the individual pieces link to one another like tendrils of climbing plants. Her idea of customization with mass production efficiency is realized in these die cut pieces Lily Yung is a Toronto print-maker and jeweller of non-precious material. To see more of her work visit her website Lilly Yung |
