So – inside the Tilburg textile Museum: one of the modern weaving machines. Right here weaving insect teatowels designed by Studio Job.
Techniques practised in the museum ‘lab’ are knitting, embroidery, weaving, printing, tufting, lasering and dying.
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Commissions by artists (Janpeter Muilwijk on the right).
Reminders of the blanket factory – skilfully stylised – marking the entrance to the hall with 19th century machinery.
There we found Norwegian student Marie Lôbo weaving happily. She is in Tilburg as one of eight students on a five week trainee program where they can experiment with help of the technical staff. Right here she is weaving a long ribbon made of all sorts of found and collected material. The warp is interspersed with loops of muslin on which she printed hebrew texts about How It All Began – and all sorts of other soft materials . The warp itself consists of varying materials too. I spotted orange fish rope that she must have scooped up from the beach. I figured her theme is sustainability – go see more of her weavings on the Marielobo website.
And so we wandered around, chatting with the technicians who handle the machines and artists who led various workshops – I will throw in a few more pictures just for the fun of it.
New fibers
Some more commissioned work
Scarfs designed by rEns
…Guess I don’t need to say this is one of my favorite museums!
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