Time Made Visible:
Tapestry Artists of Puget Sound
Vashon Center for the Arts
January 2019
Tapestry weavers have an intimate relationship with time. To weave a tapestry, an artist must hold on to and nurture a single vision for months as the image slowly unfolds on the loom. Tapestry is a dense and sturdy fabric that is woven by hand. The tapestry’s design is revealed literally pixel by pixel, as colored weft threads interweave with the structural warp threads, row upon row. The woven structure and the image are one and the same. Tapestries are a form of image making in which the time and effort of making is embodied in the structure of the cloth itself.
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Cecilia Blomberg
“Birch Rolls,” 10 pieces, 118” x 5.5,” wool, linen.
“Waterways,” 10 x 10,” wool.
“Mates,” 35″ x 50,” wool.
“Point Defiance Steps,” 36 x 50,” wool.
Marian Cragg
“Pacific Time,” 28″ x 24,” wool.
“Still Standing,” 53″ x 35,” wool.
Gail Temple
“Shadow,” 26″ x 21,” linen, wool.
Ellen Ramsey
“Obi I,” 42″ x 36,” wool, silk, rayon.
“Repose,” 60″ x 36,” wool, silk, rayon & retro reflective fiber.
Margo Macdonald
“Cottonwood Canal,” 29″ x 36,” wool.
“Elwah,” 31″ x 35,” wool.
Julia Rapinoe
“Moondance,” 16.5″ x 11.5,” wool, silk.
“Ice Waves,” 16.5″ x 10,” wool, silk.
“Homecoming Kings,” 12.5″ x 10.5,” wool, silk.
Liz Pulos
“Blanket,” 12″ x 12,” cotton.
“Cuppa,” 8″ x 11,” wool.
“Leaf,” 11″ x 11,” cotton.
“In the Early Aughts,” 27″ x 27,” wool.
“Thicket 2,” 13″ x 11,” cotton.
Mary Lane
“Autumn Leaves,” 40.5″ x 57,” wool.
Untitled #139, 12.25″ x 9,” wool.
Joyce Hayes
“Bach Invention #13,” 10″ x 15″ (framed), cotton sewing thread, rayon, painted ground cloth.
“Etude 3,” 10″ x 13″ (framed), cotton sewing thread, rayon, painted ground cloth.
“Etude 5 Verdant Summer,” 10.5″ x 11.75″ (framed), cotton sewing thread, rayon, painted ground cloth.