WEAVER’S WORKSHOP
Location: New York, NY
Status: Completed
Scale: 7000 sq. ft.
Location: New York, NY
Status: Completed
Scale: 7000 sq. ft.
This weaver’s workshop is housed within a
century-old industrial building in Long Island City. The design was inspired by
the artist’s pattern drawings—the warp and weft akin to the east-west and
north-south axes of movement.
The artist required loud spaces for weaving and industrial steam machines and quiet spaces for fabric dyeing and her yarn work, contradictory yet in close proximity. Inspired by El Lissitsky’s Proun Rooms, the material planes of foil skins, boiled felt, and perforated carbon wrap from one room to the next, to create both isolation and strategic connection.
The artist required loud spaces for weaving and industrial steam machines and quiet spaces for fabric dyeing and her yarn work, contradictory yet in close proximity. Inspired by El Lissitsky’s Proun Rooms, the material planes of foil skins, boiled felt, and perforated carbon wrap from one room to the next, to create both isolation and strategic connection.