Weaver in Residence Opportunity: ASF Shetland

ASF Shetland is pleased to accept applications until March 31st for a weaver in residence through the summer of 2012. The post is funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation and ASF Shetland, and is for four months, half time working for ASF Shetland on product development, lectures and workshops, and the remainder of the time spent on their own work.

The post includes a monthly fee, transport costs to and from Shetland from the UK, and accommodation. Application forms and more detail can be found on the website

www.creativeindustriesshetland.org.uk/residency-opportunity/

Updates to Resources Pages

 

Thank you to everyone who has sent updates and new links to The Weave Shed.

Pages which have been added to, or amended are: commission weavers, looms/accessories, yarn, weave designers and weave short courses.

If any one has weave news or items of weave interest they would like considered for the blog please do not hesitate to send us images and text.

Welcome to the Weave Shed

 

The Weave Shed is a resource site, providing a portal to available weave resources on one site alongside an active blog featuring weave-related stories, news, up and coming events, jobs, paid internships and featured weavers. We’re a community site and encourage all users to participate in its growth. Please send us weave related posts for our blog, also let us know if there are any additions to links and any inaccuracies.

ASF Shetland Makers Programme

ASF Shetland would like to invite graduate weavers to apply for a makers programme.

The Stay and Make programme is an exchange of services for product design and development, and ASF Shetland  offer accommodation, equipment and use of the yarn store for that programme. The maker pays for food, transport, and a small maintenance charge for the looms of £75 per week. The products designed during the Stay and Make will be created to a brief and they will, in future, be woven and sold to support the organisation.

ASF Shetland has four AVL looms, one of which is a studio loom. All run Weavemaker software and they offer training on how to use the equipment.

Application forms can be downloaded from www.creativeindustriesshetland.org.uk/stay-and-make-programme/

Happy New Year from The Weave Shed

‘Contemporary Weaving Patterns’ – Margo Selby

Margo Selby has written her first book. ‘Contemporary Weaving Patterns – weaving with colour and texture’. The book was launched on 15th December 2011 and includes 150 different fabric ideas that can be created over 25 warps. Margo will be selling signed copies in her studio, shop and gallery in Bloomsbury as well as through her online store.

Over the last decade, Margo Selby has been developing fabric constructions and textures on handlooms and then taking these into production for distribution to her own shop and studio and to outlets all over the world

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Katie Vale – Anthropologie Display Coordinator

Katie Vale graduated in 2009 having specialised in weave on the BA (Hons) Textile Design course at Central Saint Martins. She went on to work for the American retail company URBN in their first ever European Anthropologie store as their Display Coordinator in Regent Street.

This store opened in October 2009 and since then she has worked on all the interior display and window design elements from research and development through to installation. Although her work is not strictly designed through the process of weave in the traditional sense she manages to incorporate the skill set she learnt from weave wherever possible.

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Graduate or Experienced Textile / Surface Pattern Designer Wanted

 

For a client based in Mumbai, India – one of the Top Furnishing Fabric Mills in the World supplying all the major brands in the UK – who is offering 3 UK designers the opportunity of a 9 Months to 1 year contract to work  in the Design Studio at his mill from end Jan 2012 – this can be extended as many designers do – if you like the work and they like you. You will be creating new designs and colourways and will be given UK clients to look after ie working to briefs given by customers such as Harlequin and Prestigious and you will be communicating directly with the design teams of these major UK companies.

Over the last 7 years Diane Harding has sent many graduates to India – so you can talk to them about their experiences before you decide to take the job.  Many of them have returned to the UK and with this experience on their CV have found excellent design jobs within the industry for example for Romo & Harlequin.

All that is required is that you have a degree in Surface Pattern, Weave, Embroidery or Print design with excellent drawing skills.

First interviews will take place with myself during December and early January.

The shortlisted candidates will be interviewed by the client on Tuesday 17 January in Milton Keynes and the final 3 designers will travel out to India to join the other UK designers who have been working with the mill for several months – asap after that  (end Jan / beg Feb 2012)  at a time that is convenient for all parties.  Continue reading →

Latest projects from Dashing Tweeds

DASHING_TWEED Converse low res

Dashing Tweeds is about to launch their co- branded range Dashing Converse trainers. The tweeds for the trainers were woven at Drove Weaving Ltd UK and will be sold at retailers Kurt Geiger, JD Sports and Crooked Tongues amongst others.

Dashing Tweed is the contemporary tweed company run by Kirsty McDougall and Guy Hills. This summer they have been preparing to launch their new e-commerce website. They have spent much time photographing their product from all angles, investigating the legal implications with shipment, making sure the site is easy to negotiate and developing new products that will sell well!

Dashing Tweeds are also working with Hudson Shoes who are creating some beautiful brogue styles using one of the Dashing Harris designs, woven in iconic Harris Tweed quality. They are also working on a new range of cashmere scarves with Joshua Ellis and are waiting for the first samples to arrive. There is also a new range of bags, men’s gilet and reflective tweed cycle jacket in development.

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Laura Thomas @ Heal’s

Symmetree
Laura Thomas has produced two lambswool blanket and cushion designs for the 2011 Heal’s Discovers collection that was launched in August. One of the designs called Symmetree was shortlisted for the Cardiff Design Festival Award 2011.
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