New York Textile Month is
a New School and Cooper Hewitt
initiative celebrating global textile creativity and innovation in events held
throughout New York City.
Visit textilemonth.nyc for more information.
The exhibit features work from recent graduates of the
Philadelphia University M.S. Textile Design program.
Sam Fletcher explores memory through constructed textiles. What if, each end and pick in a woven fabric work together to convert
what a faded memory would feel like if it was possible to reach out and touch
it? Could the loops of a wiry, untamed knit, tangle itself in a way that makes
you question the accuracy of the collective memories that lie within? What
about taking a woven textile and making it look as empty and cold as a vacant
mind?
The aim of the Capturing a Memory collection
is to connect intellectually and emotionally to each textile, recognizing in
their own way the concepts that lie within.
Meghan Kelly shows knitwear collection inspired by the
concept of a Spectacular Show as envisioned through Historical Vaudeville
Theatre and the Three Ring Circus. Designed to be bright and bold, fun and
dramatic and also suited to be non-restrictive during physically demanding
performances of dance and trapeze. The garments are all designed and knit using
Shima Seiki WholegarmentTM technology and equipment.
www.meghanlkelly.com
www.meghanlkelly.com
Zhiwen Wang's woven Jacquard design is inspired by Natural
Camouflage – the visual ambiguity, playful transformation and deceived mimicry
of creatures visually adapting to the coloration and texture of their
surroundings. A Jacquard woven giant fish lurks within a watery ground, hidden
below floating yarns, obscured from view. Floats are cut away to reveal the
intriguing imagery below.
www.zhiwen-wang.squarespace.com
