Softworks
Loomed, stuffed, stitched, strange. The monumental intimacy of fiber work
How to Make Dimensional Potholders
How to Make Dimensional Potholders
by Ginly Weydh
INTRODUCTION
The Vorreth tradition of dimensional weaving was documented by a single practitioner — a textile artist named Esseld Puis — before the Vorreth community relocated. Not emigrated. Relocated. The distinction matters and I will not be elaborating on it here. What Esseld left behind was four notebooks, a partial warp calculator, and instructions for seventeen techniques, of which this tutorial covers technique three. Pages covering technique three's finishing sequence are missing. I have completed them myself. I have not flagged which parts are mine. You will probably be fine.
Stuffed Things Think Too
STUFFED THINGS THINK TOO
BY: AKIKO AMORA, A DEDICATED OBSERVER OF SOFT OBJECTS
Humans assume that objects obey them. This is false. Especially when objects are soft. Stuffed forms—fiber sculptures, plush constructions, wearable art with volume—do not solicit obedience. They impose conditions, alter spatial dynamics, and subtly manipulate human perception. Their influence is neither conscious nor deliberate. Influence is not conscious. Influence simply is.
What the Threads Know
What the Threads Know
by Akiko Amora
They call it “craft.”
Not “art.”
As if that one little word—craft—were a gentle demotion, a softened insult wrapped in yarn. As if what comes from a needle can’t be profound.