macrogauzes
TECHNICAL DETAILS
Macrogauzes are a new type of textile woven on a new type of loom. This allows the warp to depart from its traditional practice of always lying parallel to the selvage. I have been weaving macrogauzes for over 35 years and have now reached design 231... and counting!
The 2/16s linen warp is controlled in one inch wide sections, which can move sideways, cross each other, twist, coalesce, even enter and leave the weave as weft.
The resulting unique textile can be close or open, flat or 3D, rectangular or shaped. But in all cases the warp's movement is the dominant feature of the design. So in a way it is the antithesis of true tapestry where the wefts form the design. In a macrogauze the weft, plus stiffening stainless steel rods, is the very minimum which will hold the shifted warps in their new position.
A loom's normal precision gives it the ability to repeat faithfully any design once the prototype is woven and recorded. So all my designs are repeatable - one (M 84) has been woven 278 times!
The whole series has never appeared in print so I have decided to present them on this site; thus forming both a record of this new type of textile and also acting as a Catalogue from which repeats can be ordered.
I am well aware that some of the images are very poor, being derived from badly taken slides. But in almost all cases a print-out of the enlarged image increases clarity and shows far more detail. Gaps in the numerical sequence usually indicate designs that I did not think worth recording or which had to be urgently delivered in quick time, allowing no camera click-time.
For details of prices, which start at £75, and the dimensions which vary considerably despite the uniform size of the images, click on ORDER at foot of gallery pages.
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