Earlier this winter we viewed an exhibit of new acquisition at the
Fuller Craft Museum, in Brockton, Massachusetts. The recent purchases included the textile below, entitled
Expand, and created by
Amelia Poole. The work is 36" square.
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| Expand, Amelia Poole, 2016-2017. |
According to the wall text:
Expand is a beautifully rendered example of Amelia Poole's indigo shibori textile work, a labor-intensive technique that can take well over 100 hours for the completion of each piece. Shibori is a collective Japanese term for methods of shaping cloth and dyeing it in the creation of textiles. The shibori process creates resist patterns where the dye does not penetrate all parts of the material. Rather than treating cloth as a two-dimensional surface, with shibori it is given a three-dimensional form by folding, crumpling, stitching, binding, and/or twisting....Amelia Poole works from her shop and open studio, Ecouture Textiles in Brooksville, Maine.
This particular pattern is called
karamatsu, or larch tree. Perhaps some long-ago Japanese textile artist thought the finely articulated radiating pattern remniscent of the needles of a conifer, viewed from above.
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| Expand, detail. |
