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Dzyga is preparing an evening with city photographers
26 серпня 2026
Two languages about one district: a photograph fixes a moment, a tapestry months of work.
The show runs as long as the snow lies
26 серпня 2026
The dates are deliberate: the work is meant to be seen when the window shows what the wall does.
The snow is woven from the same wool as the sky
26 серпня 2026
The only difference is the weft direction, which is where the sense of falling light comes from.
The darkest passages are dyed with alder bark
26 серпня 2026
Bark gives a warm grey-brown that does not collapse into black under gallery light.
An industrial district in greys
26 серпня 2026
Roofs, chimneys and sky: the whole work rests on seven shades of one dye.
The catalogue gives technical descriptions for the first time
26 серпня 2026
Density, yarn composition and dyeing method — data that used to stay in the studios.
The programme includes three weaving workshops
26 серпня 2026
Each takes six people; no more looms would fit in the hall.
Half the participants dye their own yarn
26 серпня 2026
That is a choice, not a tradition: bought yarn gives an even colour these compositions do not need.
The oldest work in the show is forty years old
26 серпня 2026
It is shown as a starting point: the technique has not changed, the attitude to texture has.
The group show gathers nine weavers
26 серпня 2026
From classic flat tapestry to works combining wool with metal thread.
The warp will be cut in front of visitors at the close
26 серпня 2026
Cutting a finished tapestry from the loom usually happens alone in the studio.
The Palace of Arts gave the show its tallest hall
26 серпня 2026
The largest work is two and a half metres; under a lower ceiling it would read differently.
Three works are shown from both sides
26 серпня 2026
They hang on wires in the middle of the hall, so knots and thread crossings stay visible.
The show opens with an empty loom
26 серпня 2026
The first exhibit is bare warp without a single weft row: where any tapestry begins.
The warp is left exposed in every work
26 серпня 2026
At the edges the stretched threads are visible, the part usually hidden under a hem.
Yarn samples before and after dyeing are shown alongside
26 серпня 2026
Thirty skeins in glass jars show how many shades one plant yields at different steeping times.
Dzyga shows the works without glass
26 серпня 2026
The gallery's decision: wool texture vanishes under glass, and here it carries half the meaning.
Why the green here is always muted
26 серпня 2026
Plant dyes give no pure green; it is built by layering blue over yellow.
The madder for the red is grown near Lviv
26 серпня 2026
The root matures for three years; one plant yields yarn for half a tapestry.
The whole palette comes from three plants
26 серпня 2026
Alder bark, oak leaves and madder give everything from grey to red with no synthetic dye.
