Weaving and Upcycling: Craft Tapestries with Recycled Fabric

Overview

“Now, I would like to introduce you to my main sources of inspiration. It can be artists who touch me but also inspirations linked to the history of textiles.”

In this video lesson Delphine Dénéréaz addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Weaving and Upcycling: Craft Tapestries with Recycled Fabric. Recycle your old fabric to make beautiful decorative tapestries using traditional weaving techniques.

Partial transcription of the video

“My sources of inspiration I will talk about my influences and the artists who inspire me. So I brought the book "Vitamin T" which lists contemporary artists who work around yarn and textiles. It lists many artists who work with embroidery, knitting, dyeing or tapestry. I particularly like the work of the artist Yann Gerstberger, a French artist, but who has been living and working in Mexico City for years. He developed his own tapestry technique by working with mops that he buys in bulk, that he unweaves, that he dyes by hand and that he assembles strand by strand on tarpaulins by gluing th...”

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Course summary for: Weaving and Upcycling: Craft Tapestries with Recycled Fabric

• Level: Beginner
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• 886 students
• 5 units
• 16 lessons (2h 24m)
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• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Accessory Design, Fiber Arts, Interior Decoration, Textile Design, Weaving