Threads in Sheds: Jurors

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Swimming to the Island
Joan Baxter

40 x 60 cm; wool, silk and linen

This tapestry, woven during lockdown, celebrates the freedom I felt whilst swimming in Loch Brora near my home. I wanted to capture the silky feel of the soft peaty water as my body slipped quietly through it, the ripples of the waves passing over and under me as I swam and the beautiful tranquility of the landscape I was part of.

Swimming to the Island
Joan Baxter

Joan Baxter - Juror Statement

William Jefferies - Juror Statement

 Bulwarks
William Jefferies

30 x 30 cm; Tussah silk, Sari silk yarn, Cricula silk (hand rolled), "Macclesfield" ribbon silk, nettle yarn and wool.

Bulwarks
William Jefferies

The Gift of Silks
William Jefferies

30 x 30 cm; Tussah silk, Sari silk yarn, Cricula silk (hand-rolled), machine spun silk, nettle yarn and wool.

The Gift of Silks
William Jefferies

Symbolist
William Jefferies

40 x 40 cm; Sari silk yarn, Macclesfield fine silk, possibly used for mechanical ribbon weaving, plum-coloured silk - a gift from a fellow weaver, nettle yarn and wool.

My tapestry is the third and largest response to working in silks of various kinds. The knotted ribbing, the whipped outlines and the spotting in patches are all attempts to animate the surface. Handling the rich colours and sheen has been rewarding for me and to embellish the worthy structures of woven hemp, nettle and linen was a new way to colour tinge the tapestry. The design is a loose interpretation from an inked in sketch, floating on a collaged ground of old manuscripts.

Symbolist
William Jefferies