Following the Line:
Identifying Textile Structure through Slow Looking
Isaac Facio with Elizabeth Pope
Identifying Textile Structure through Slow Looking
Isaac Facio with Elizabeth Pope
Look Closely and Slowly: What do you see?
To understand the work.. look closely and slowly and describe what you see.
Describe the threads.
Describe the traits (the morphology) of the fiber that you see
Is it twisted?
Is it flat, tubular?
Is it scaly?
Is it uniform?
What is the color of the thread?
What colors do you see?
Is it natural fiber (undyed), dyed or pigmented?
Is the color consistent throughout the fiber?
Follow the line of an individual thread:
Where does the line start?
Where does the line go?
Following the lines:
Interlacing
Plain Weave and Braiding
Interlooping
Intertwining
Interlocking
A line of fiber… clustered together as in a twisted format to create a thread…
Plied together to create a yarn….
Interlaced to create weaving
Interlooping to create a knit, a crochet,
Intertwining to create a lace
Key Reference:
Shari Tishman, Slow Looking: The Art and Practice of Learning Through Observation (Routledge 2017).