ALPACA
a blanket
Year: 2016
Material: wool (weft), alpaca (warp)
Technique: hand woven, satin weave
Dimensions: 155 x 220 cm
6 hours, 12 minutes and 36 seconds
LÀN-MARA
Year: 2018
Material: 100% Scottish pure new un-dyed wool
Dimensions: 160x165, 160x168, 160x187, 160x192
Made by: Isle of Mull weavers, Ardalanish, Scotland
Produced by: Knockvologan-studies, Monica Haddock (IoMW), Severine Amsing
Fishermen imagined the earth is breathing. Breathing-in lasts six hours, breathing-out another six.
The length of the blanket is alike the tidal range on the day of weaving (at Ardalanish, end of March 2018).
6 hours, 12 minutes and 36 seconds
LÀN-MARA
Year: 2018
Làn-mara is the name of a blanket Amsing designed and produced together with Knockvologan Studies and Isle of Mull Weavers.
The deep brown wool from the local Hebridean sheep is woven into seascape blankets in the weaving mill of Ardalanish.
Làn-mara is Gaellic and can be translated as tidal.
The length of the blanket is alike the tidal range on the day of weaving the blanket (at Ardalanish, end of March 2018).
For more images and info take a look at in between tides.
6 hours, 12 minutes and 36 seconds
LOW TIDE
Year: 2017
Material: wool
Technique: hand woven
Dimensions: 150 x 195 cm
SHIKOKU
blankets
Year: 2015
Material: wool
Technique: hand woven, twill weave
Dimensions: 155 x 220 cm
KHYBER PASS
a blanket
I went on a road trip in 1990. Standing at the border on top of the Khyber Pass in Pakistan I could see Afghanistan, but did not enter.
Year: 2008
Material: 80% wool (weft) 20% diverse (warp)
Technique: hand woven, satin weave, steel brush treatment
Dimensions: 155 x 390 cm
VICTORIAN BUSHFIRE
a blanket
Woven after a newspaper photo of devastating bush fires in Australia.
Year: 2009
Material: 60% wool (weft) 40% diverse (warp and weft)
Technique: hand woven, satin weave, steel brush treatment
Dimensions: 155 x 300 cm
accessory
Year: 2013
Material: nylon, viscose, cotton
Technique: hand woven, plain weave
Dimensions: 6,5 x 550 cm