November, 13 2024 at 7:00 PM
Double Weave Pleats with Sara Nordling
Double weave pleats began as an inquiry for Sara Nordling. How do you get a knife edge pleat to form on the surface of a fabric? The basic technique, as it turns out, is not that complicated. Once she had figured that out, what kept Sara making them are the very things that interested her about weaving to begin with: they have a tactile quality that makes you want to touch them, and there are so many ways they can be played with. Double weave pleats also provided her with a series to use for her M.F.A. thesis show. Join Sara as she takes you on the journey of double weave pleats from the basic technique to the many ways she has used them in her work for her thesis and beyond.
Sara Nordling has been involved in fiber art in many forms for most of her life; weaving however, didn’t enter until Sara was an adult and she was hooked immediately. What began as a hobby turned into a passion and a return to school for a B.F.A. and then an M.F.A. in studio art/textiles. Sara does work on commission and is an adjunct professor of art teaching various classes including drawing, design, and painting. She has also given workshops and talks to various weaving guilds, and has taught at weaving conferences and retreats throughout the United States. Her current work focuses on various forms of double weave including double weave pleats, pick-up techniques, networked and blocks. Sara enjoys the technical side of weaving as well as the color, textures and rhythms weaving provides.
Her publications include:
Autio, Laurie Knapp, Editor, Eight Shafts: Beyond the Beginning, Personal Approaches to Design, “Spot Check: Sara Nordling, Scarf in 4-Color Double Weave (Networked Twill),” Complex Weavers, Tiger Press, East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, 2022, pp 198-202.
Nordling, Sara, “On Weaving,” SEEN Journal, XVII 2017, Practice, pp 68-69.
Nordling, Sara, “Inspiration Becomes An Obsession,” Complex Weavers Journal, October 2012, number 100, pp 22-23.
Nordling, Sara, “Rain,” and “River: Psalm 46:4,” Edge of Faith: Art and Culture Through a Christian Lens, July 2017, pp 30-31.
Nordling, Sara and Stiegemeyer, Julie, Knitted Together, Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, 2011
Nordling, Sara, “Evening Star Jacket,” Handwoven, XXV:2, March/April 2004, pp 60-62.
Nordling, Sara, “Integrated Cell Weaves,” Complex Weavers Journal, May 2002, number 69, p15.
Nordling, Sara, “Liturgical Stole”, Complex Weavers Greatest Hits, Provo, Utah, Complex Weavers, p 74.
Schoeser, Mary, Textiles: The Art of Mankind, Thames and Hudson, New York, 2012, pp 113, 133, 207.
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