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Textile Center & Artist Residency in Iceland - encouraging research, education and innovation in the field of textiles.

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Now it’s a catch up from nine months ago 🫣 But better late then never! 😁

Last early April I had the amazing opportunity to participate in @massartboston 2026 Auction with a piece I had woven during my Jan 2025 TC2 residency @textilmidstod.

Getting to participate in the MassArt Auction was a full circle moment for me. I was incredibly fortunately to had gotten a full ride to MassArt and it is greatly in part to this yearly fundraiser that supports many scholarship opportunities. To be able to not only showcase my work but also support another’s creative dreams ment the world to me. Thank you thank you to whomever bided on my piece and the new home it has found.

Some info about the piece:
Twin Frequencies No. 1
Frequency Twins explores the interplay between harmony and contrast through handwoven textiles. The series meditates on human connection and the subtle dynamics of alignment: how individuals can resonate on the same frequency, fostering moments of deep understanding, or slightly misalign, sparking tension, curiosity, or novelty. Like waves in dialogue, the works evoke the fleeting and enduring ways connections form, shift, and ripple through our lives.

1. Fresh off the loom - Twin Frequencies (No. 1 Top) (No. 2 Bottom)
3. Mid weave shot
4. Frame building
5. Finding a wire and hook was a process 🙃
6. On the wall!!

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Really thrilled to share that Soft Animal V has been selected as a finalist for the 2026 Kate Derum Awards. It’ll be exhibited at the @austapestry in Melbourne this fall as part of the finalists exhibition. Some of the tapestry artists I most admire in the *world* have been included in this exhibition in the past so I am really feeling honored to be in their company.

This piece was woven this summer from wool that I dyed with rhubarb when I was in residence at the @textilmidstod in June 2025, as well as horsehair from Icelandic horses. While I have been weaving for several (many?) years, that summer was when I started truly committing enough time weaving to improve technically, which then led me to begin expanding my expressive capacity. And where I learned to accept my destiny as an Earth Horse! 🌎🐴

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A few images from way back in 2016, when I was lucky enough to work on the Icelandic version of the Bayeux Tapestry. I was there for a month-long residency at the Textile Centre @textilmidstod in Blönduós, and my favourite part was going to the tapestry at night, just quietly stitching away on it. I’ve got real FOMO right now about not being able to see the actual Bayeux Tapestry, and since I reference it a lot when I teach workshops, thought I’d share this instead.

Vatnsdæla á Refli is a 46-metre-long tapestry, stitched collaboratively to tell The Saga of the People of Vatnsdalur. It was started in 2011 by Jóhanna E. Pálmadóttir — local handcraft teacher, sheep farmer and wool expert — and finished in 2024, all using traditional sewing and embroidery techniques.
The saga itself is the family history of the people of Hof, set in the 9th to 11th centuries. The story moves between Norway and Vatnsdalur in Iceland and the surrounding area.

It was designed back in 2011 by students from the Iceland University of the Arts, led by Kristín Ragna Gunnarsdóttir.

The wool was spun by Istex, nine colours in two weights, a thinner 1-ply for outlines and locking down stitches, a heavier 2-ply for filling in the figures.

Same techniques as the Bayeux Tapestry too: couching for the fill, stem stitch for the outlines.
it’s no longer at Kvennaskólinn, it’ll be moving to a new home in Blönduós soon.

#bayeuxtapestry

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Reflecting on a month of making at the Icelandic Textile Center in Blönduós. I’m feeling very grateful to have been able to delve into the building’s rich history as a textile school for young women and to work on looms that date back to c.1860.

Thank you everyone at @textilmidstod for such an incredible experience!

@astridsvangren
@shannonjslee
@ophilini
@accorsi.ambra
@paigejansen_

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We had a great time in Blönduós @textilmidstod experimenting with #preloved #endoflife #textiles where we had a big aha moment on our @threadsnpa design journey ♻️

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《福包 Purse FU》
沒意義的ㄨㄚㄨㄚ˙系列作作品創作過程分享
I will start sharing my creative development of my art pieces recently ~ stay tuned!
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Material: leftover material (wool, yarn, ribbon, cotton)
Made by me @__chyl_e during artist residency at Icelandic Textile Centre @textilmidstod and Absence Space @absence_space0810
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tags: #artistresidency #textile #art #weaving

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Felt chair.
Wool, mohair, Pine and stoneware.

I really like the painterly quality that the felt has.

ongoing series.

#uppbyggingasjóður #hönnunarsjóður #ULL #wool #felt

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Coś się kończy, coś się zaczyna.

Co to był za miesiąc! Spodziewałam się pięknej przyrody i nowych doświadczeń, ale nie spodziewałam się, że poznam tak wspaniałe kobiety. To chyba magia włókniarek.

Raczej nie zostanę mistrzynią przędzenia, ale tę lekcję zapamiętam na zawsze.

Jak powiedziała Johanna:
„Nigdy więcej nie uprzędziesz swojej pierwszej przędzy. Nigdy więcej nie popełnisz dokładnie tych samych błędów.”

Enjoy your struggle ❤️

#textileart

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I have so much to say about my time here. But for now, thank you @textilmidstod 🇮🇸

#iceland #northerniceland #blönduós

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Orange flowers in the sun🍊
Felted wall lamp.

swipe to turn on 💥☄️🌞💡🔥

#felt #fiber #walllamps

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A little bit of romance.
Flowers and a dreamy softness.
Big wall felt cabinet.

The wood is always a mirror of the textile. Hand painted with colorful wood stain and then layered with a satin lacquer.

#functionalartwork #contemporarydesign #limitededition #studiofurniture #artdesign #honnunarsjodur #uppbyggingarsjodur #listamannalaun

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Yellow “dots and squares” cabinet
Hand dyed local felted local wool, pine, stoneware, cotton & mohair thread.
From sheep that live close to my studio to cabinet is a long journey. The wool needs to be washed, coloured and carded then felted, cut and sewn.
The felt furniture is a ongoing research with how to use the materials that exist around me. This one even grows while I sleep. I choose the wool when the farmer is shearing the sheep in the autumn.
when I am out of material therefor need to wait until next years shearing to get more.

#functionalartwork #contemporarydesign #limitededition #studiofurniture #artdesign

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