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Monon was born on December 12, 1920, [2] and grew up in Bituag, Bansalan in Davao del Sur and watched her mother weave ikat a traditional abaca fabric when she was a child, She asked her mother how to use the loom at age 12 and learned how to weave within a few months. [3] She weaved a design for three to four months.
Video showing the technology and processes used to capture images of the White House for the Google Arts & Culture. The platform emerged as a result of Google's "20-percent time" policy, by which employees were encouraged to spend 20% of their time working on an innovative project of interest. [15]
Basket weaving (also basketry or basket making) is the process of weaving or sewing pliable materials into three-dimensional artifacts, such as baskets, mats, mesh bags or even furniture. Craftspeople and artists specialized in making baskets may be known as basket makers and basket weavers .
The techniques create illusionistic designs similar to op art patterns and were popular by the late 19th century, [4] when the United States colonized the Philippines and American museums collected many traditional Philippine textiles. Ilocos Sur weaver . Binakael patterns may use a two-block rep weave, making them double-sided, but with colour ...
Haja Appi was known for creating finely woven mats with highly intricate designs. An older tradition produced Sama mats in plain white. However, Haja Appi experimented with dyes for her designs, mixing her own dyes to create striking designs for her mats.
Her practice includes video installation, weaving, paper tapestries, digital embroidery, and drawings. Korot is a pioneer of video art , and of multiple channel work in particular. By applying specific structures inherent to textile loom programming to the programming of multiple video channels, she brought the ancient and modern worlds of ...
Sheila Hicks at the Musée Carnavalet, Paris, 2016. Photograph by Cristobal Zanartu. From 1959 to 1964 she resided and worked in Mexico; She moved to Taxco el Viejo, Mexico [7] where she began weaving, painting, and teaching at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) at the invitation of Mathias Goeritz who also introduced her to the architects Luis Barragán and Ricardo Legorreta ...