{"id":10436,"date":"2026-06-23T11:03:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=10436"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:03:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:03:34","slug":"fabric-a-raw-material-of-textile-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=10436","title":{"rendered":"Fabric- A Raw Material of Textile Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back in 2013, for some long-forgotten reason, I compiled a document titled “Here’s all you can do with fabric”,<\/strong> and I’m sure I must have been interrupted and never remembered to return to it, because it’s obviously incomplete \ud83d\ude42 For example, although I myself have made of works featuring torn fabric edges, and way back in 2008 made several works featuring melted organza, I hadn’t listed them here, and there must be many more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Detail, “Timetracks 7” 2008. Melted edges and holes through the work’s layers.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The list does show, though, that I had already started to research some of them. This was really important to me back then because I was living in a spanish speaking country with less than good language ability, and more accumstomed to accessing libraries and bookstores in english. These days of course there’s even more information available online. I rarely buy new textile books, and don’t subscribe to paper copies of any magazines as their delivery here is very unreliable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve never been motivated to write a fibreart techniques book, so perhaps I was preparing a workshop, or a powerpoint for a talk to a group which never happened, but anyway, I’ve learned the basics of many of these, become skilled in several, and some I’m sure never <\/em>interested me at all :<\/p>\n\n\n\n