Sofia pozzi

KSU MFA TEXTILES

The work of the weaver and her loom, shares many similarities to the maestra at her keys

coordinated movements, rhythms and repetitions of sequences, create melodies and harmonies of color that thread in and out of one another, materializing a colorful structural composition of linear notes, weaving a symphony on warp and weft.

Diagrams hang over head like sheet music, laying the path, guiding the wooden shuttle spooled with yarn, back and forth, all while pedals bring in and release tension, suspending vivid orange threads over dampened blue yarn, alternating to create a harmony made over the span of the prescribed sequence.

We take for granted what it means to make something. Imagine that, creating cloth, strand by strand. Something so simple, so primal, a technology so ubiquitous across cultures and time, developed as independently as flight in avians, pyramids, and petals on flowers.

Be under no illusion that this is a labor consigned to the past.

Though this orchestra moves slowly, it is relentless. Its measures have clothed and adorned the world and for generations hence forth.

Though this instrument is strung, it is percussive.

The echoes of the very first loom reverberating throughout the fibers that hold our world and each other together.

A collection of simple machines powered and programmed at the skilled hands of the meticulous weaver, goes on.

Glossary

Warp: Threads that run the length of the loom/cloth.

Weft: Threads which are woven back and forth across the warp.

Shuttle (Boat Shuttle): The wooden carrier for the warp threads that are spooled on a bobbin inside of it.

Double Cloth: A technique that weaves two or more layers simultaneously, to create an interwoven fabric.

Thank you to Kent State University Textiles @kentstatetextiles and Sofia Pozzi @sofi_pozzi

Photography by Christopher Liu

Shot on Sony a6000 - Tamron 70-300mm f4.5-6.6 + SMC Pentax 50mm f2

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