Textile Artists News

A new article on the 'Harvest' motif in this tradition: where it comes from and how to read it.

The session introduces the tradition in practice: participants reproduce the 'Vorskla' motif under a guest...

The tour lasts an hour and stops at every section of the show.

As part of the exhibition there will be a talk on the 'Cherry Blossom' motif and on how this technique works: hand...

Light Ground Weaving Hall opens the exhibition 'Warm Season'.

The piece 'Shepherds' Fire' has been selected for a group textile exhibition.

The session lasts three hours and suits those holding the tool for the first time.

A lizhnyk is woven from coarse sheep wool and then fulled in a mountain stream until the pile turns dense and soft.

Over the weekend the studio in Kosiv is open to visitors.

Andrii Bortnyk is completing the 'Polonyna' series.

An extension is agreed: six weeks were planned, ten remain.

Ritual towels and carpets from the collection hang beside contemporary work.

It took two days to hang: cloth of that weight needs distributed mounting.

Poltava, Lviv and Hutsul regions: three schools that almost never met.

Tapestry, lizhnyk, woven panel and author objects gather in one space as works, not decoration.

Twenty recipes with steeping times and proportions, gathered from Kosiv-area weavers.

Once a week the vat stands in the hall itself, with extraction and commentary.

A fine scatter of red dots over dark green: berries in moss.

A 1960s sample in the display has lost less tone than the 2000s synthetic beside it.

The show presents both dyes in the work and in the jar, before and after.