ONLINE EXHIBITION - NEW DIRECTIONS - Tapestry Touring International

NEW DIRECTIONS
October 2021 marks Tapestry Touring International’s first invitation only online exhibition. As we all know, Covid has brought chaos to organising gallery based shows so Lindsey Marshall and I decided online was the answer. Weavers were asked to design and weave a tapestry taking New Direction, and explain that new direction in up to 8 words.
Heartfelt thanks go to all the UK, Canadian, Australian, American and Danish weavers for supporting this new venture. Yet again thanks to Lindsey Marshall for the online curation.

Abstract in blacks, greens and blues.

White background with design based on sound waves in reds and blacks.

Abstract design with areas of blue, black, white and grey.

Cream background with additional woven section over needles. This section is of a hand over a thread. The thread is then continued through a needle threaded through the top of this section.

Design of overlapping curves and geometric shapes with leaf shapes. Colours are mainly blues and reds.

Small tufted/textured sections of different colours and yarns arranged on a cream background

Small red/pink/yellow/blue organic shapes moving within a yellow and blue background above a dark mound with green organic shapes on it.

Image of a plastic pump action dispenser in cream on a blue and red background. The bottle has a blue water drop symbol on it. Overlaid are seaweed shapes in yellow and green.

A sans serif capital A with graded purple, green and blue background.

A heart shape made up of red stripes resembling sound waves. The background is cream, suspended from a wooden rod.

A background made up of blue wave shapes. Overlaid is a separate vertical strip showing a landscape in greens and blues. There is a red strip of thread over both these approximately a third up from the base. There a four small bunches of stiff fibres attached by the red thread.

Design made up of abstract organic shapes in reds, blues and greens. There are horizontal dashes of raised colour across the entire piece.

Background of blue and green wave shapes. Two wavy ribbon strips (one blue, one red) run across the centre horizontally.

Overlapping organic shapes in purple, red and black on a cream background.

A circle woven from strips of fabric in colours of a rainbow. The background in a fabric patchwork in blues and greys.

Shapes resembling growth developing from a pair of leaves. Dark colours for the leaf shapes at the base with pastel colours growing from them.

Blue/purple silhouettes of toppling buildings on a grey background. Below these is a black shape (across the bottom) like a mound of earth with sparkling reddish circles floating over it.

The bottom quarter is a reddish brown landscape. The top quarter is leaf/flower shapes in similar but lighter colours. The background, in between, is made up of grey shapes with many small vertical dark slits.

Monochrome portrait of a young woman with short curly hair, wearing a uniform.

Abstract geometric shapes in blue and yellow, with some fringing, on a light coloured background.

Rust brown background. Dark artichoke head with highlighted areas of colour.

Cream oblong panel with short twig-like lines of black and orange. A long strip of blue and white wavy shapes overlays this vertically.

Tree shapes in dark colours with leaf shapes in green and yellow on a pinky/orange background.