PREPARING AN EXHIBITION

Tomorrow is the big day.
I'm driving with some last pieces for the exhibition to the old church in Vichte.
And sunday is even an bigger day,
then it's the opening of the event,
you can read about it here (in Dutch).

I had to ask friends and customers for their scarves,
or their wallworks. They are very nice people,
lending me back my work for quite a while...
It's always nice to have old pieces back home,
so I can learn about how they are used,
and how my design and use of materials reacts to that usage.

The nerves are getting bigger and bigger,
and also my curiosity of seeing it all together.
I worked with photographer Nele Van Canneyt for pictures of 5 people
and their scarf, I will show you more about that later.

Oh, and meet my new loom!
Up and running, 24 shafts, still testing and learning,
a whole new way of thinking and designing,
but I like it.

BLUE BOY

Here you are.
A blue boy with a red square.

Some people who order a scarf have lots of patience.
Hm, they have to have a lot of patience.
And I want to thank them for that...
Every scarf takes the time it needs,
and sometimes other projects come along.
And then orders have to wait and wait and wait.
But I have learned not to worry about it anymore.
The day people don't wait anymore,
is the day for weaving my own scarf...

It's a question I get a lot,
in what (web)shop my scarves are for sale.
That shop does not exist. :-)
I just make them on demand, people come by to pick colours,
and I make them a piece.
But that's only for very patiented people...

And now the rain may stop.

RECYCLING AND BLUE

Thank God it's friday!
Tomorrow Jeffrey and I are visiting Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven,
ready for some design inspiration...
Yesterday I finished weaving the blue scarf,
now I have to do some finishing touches before it can be worn by it's owner.
So more pictures later!
Every time I make a new scarf it feels like it's the 'best' one I have ever made.
Probably because I keep searching for the best materials and new techniques,
but with quite some weaving experience.
I think I'm weaving for 8 or 9 years now...
And still so much to do.

The first 4 pictures are about a remake of this project:
http://ilseacke.blogspot.be/2011/11/9-meters.html
You remember I have won a prize?
On the first of december 2013 an exhibition will open,
with the work of all prize winners.
I need some new placemats for this event,
have to weave 15 meters this time!
I will keep you posted about the exhibition!

One more thing,
http://www.architonic.com/ntsht/ilse-acke-jeffrey-vanhille-dream-weavers/7000804
;-)

WOVEN TREASURES - SWEDEN

Back to my summer vacation!
We drove by car to Finland, so we passed through Sweden.
In Stockholm I saw all these woven treasures
in the textile gallery of Nordiska muséet.
There you have drawers full of knitted, woven, embroidered fabrics
and many other techniques.
Needless to say I went crazy and examined every drawer in the room...

Still working on the blue scarf.
And thinking of new things to do.
Other then scarves.
Or not just scarves on demand,
but like a collection, with a story.
On my pinterest I have a board called
"One day I'll weave a coat".
That would be just great!

Anyway,
things have to change sometimes.
And I need change.
But I have never been a fast one,
so there's still some scarves coming up.
;-)

SNAPSHOTS

Just workplace shots.

My loom is waiting for a blue warp.

And my fingers and mind are itchy for some serious weaving.

FINLAND - THE LOOMS THAT CROSSED MY PATH

At the house of Emil Wikström, Visavuori in Valkeakoski

At the house of Eliel Saarinen, Hvitträsk, Kirkkonummi

At the Friends of Finnish Handicraft, Helsinki

At the open air museum in Lieksa

Again the open air museum in Lieksa

Kuopio Museum of Cultural History

The Craft Museum of Finland, Jyväskylä

Museum of Central Finland, Jyväskylä

Never in my travelling life I have seen this much looms,

and most of them I saw by accident.

Maybe that's why I enjoyed our trip so much...

Next blogpost some Finnish textiles.

Or some Alvar Aalto architecture.

Or some nature pictures.

Just too much to show you.

What I am working on at the moment?

A blue scarf,

preparing an exhibition in december,

and trying to work on my new loom.

I did some heavy cleaning in my atelier,

for a photoshoot of our house,

but probably more about all that later!

+ It's getting cold here.

Time for some scarfweaving :-)

ANYONE FEELING COLD?

  

So this my interpretation of a red scarf.

It was a big search for different reds to combine,

and that in different materials;

there's some merino, alpaca, mohair, ...

I thought weaving a complete red scarf, in warp and weft, would have been too much.

And I like red being more red among other colours.

It's a big one, a soft one, a warm one.

And it's for sale! :-)

You can visit me and my scarf this weekend at Oeverture,

10h-17h30
at Serweytens
Onderbergen 39
9000 Gent