W.E.F.T PROJECTS

TOTES

These one-of-a-kind tote bags are woven collaboratively in the W.E.F.T. class, using donated, recycled, knotted-together, and scrap yarns. With woven-in rope handles and gusseted corners, these bags are sturdy, durable, unique and just plain fun.

W.E.F.T. tote bags come in 3 sizes:

FAMILY SIZE (approx 28” tall x 20” across)
SNACK SIZE (approx 18” x 20” across)
FUN SIZE (approx 10” x 16” across)

RUGS

These marvelous one-of-a-kind rugs are the pinnacle of a circular material eco-system. The rapier production looms at TWM produce selvedge off-cuts in the process of weaving: essentially a macro-chenille yarn that is a record of sorts of all our past projects. We save up these selvedges, roll them into big balls, and use them as weft material for these marvelous rugs. Each one gets a name, because how else would you keep track of who’s who?

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INDIGO QUILTS

In the spring of 2017, the W.E.F.T. class designed a series of quilts utilizing indigo-dyed shibori and batik fabrics created during Claire Rabkin’s W.A.R.P. residency. Starting with research into historic and contemporary quilt traditions, with special focus on the Gee’s Bend and crazy quilt traditions, the W.E.F.T. participants used their favorite quilts as inspiration for tissue paper collages exploring color blocking, composition, layout, and scale. We made photocopies of these colorful tissue collages so that we could all see the dark/light range of the designs and translate those to the range of blues in the indigo-dyed fabrics. We laid out the pieces, landed on final designs, sewed them together as a group, and quilted them up. The backing fabric was dyed with turmeric and the quilting was done at Envision Unlimited's Frick Center.