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The artist, Laura Ann Schroeder, discusses her Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition, Witness, Revival, Testimony, which was installed at Tipton Gallery in Johnson City, TN from March 2, 2023 through March 31, 2023, with a public reception held on March 24, 2023. The exhibition consisted of a collection of sculptural works and installations that evoke scenes and memories from the artist’s childhood. This body of work deconstructs the traditional family dynamic and the private domestic space through recreations of everyday life. The artworks are primarily made with repurposed consumer textiles and techniques like stitching and quilting that have historically been considered “women’s work.” Through the process of creating this body of work, the artist analyzes how past moments culminate to affect her understanding of gender, spirituality, and personal identity.

This work sets out to explore changeability in woven expressions using optic fibers in an interior context for home environment. The primary motive is to investigate how optic fibers can change the expression of a woven textile through its color and placement in the structure. The work was conducted with a trial and error-method by sketching, weaving samples, etching the optic fibers, and exploring how the fibers changed the expression and properties of the woven textile. Experiments with displaying the textiles in the intended environment were conducted in order to experience the effect of color and expression changeability. With the optic fibers the expressions repurpose weave structures and patterns, connecting them to the craft of weaving. The result is three double woven textiles with two stages each, activated and unactivated. In the activated state, the optic fibers brings new expressions through color and pattern from a white textile, which is the unactivated stage.

So far the theoretical approach to weaving resistance and fabric geometry and the factors affecting it have been made for such weaves as plain, hop-sack and warp and weft faced ribs. In this work theoretical models were adopted to determine the fabric geometry and weaving resistance. Experimental and theoretical findings are in agreement. The trends of the effects on values of weaving resistance of such factors as warp elastic constant, weft tension, warp tension, the coefficient of friction of yarn against. yarn agree with the trends obtained by other workers by showing that weaving resistance increases with these factors. The results-also show that-the fabric geometry depends on warp and weft tension at-the moment of beat-up. Additionally, the change of fabric geometry across the fabric, the effect of two different let-off mechanisms,, Hattersley and WIRA/Poole, and the beaming CO processes on weaving resistance and fabric geometry were investigated. It was found that the fabric width-depends on the dynamics of fabric formation before and at the moment of beat-up. / Wool Industries Research Association

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Loom Orientation explores the potential of materials as time capsules of knowledge from which to cultivate engagement and understanding of what something is made from, including people, planet, and process. By orientating myself from the object of a loom, an ancient device to weave cloth and tapestry, and through the process of learning a new craft and working with the material sheep’s wool, I have worked with the concept of past knowledges as a drive for sustainable futures. Situated in a Swedish context, the design project has worked with collaborators from Småland and Skåne through an autoethnographic approach in which place-specific knowledge and weaving were brought together. Building from multidisciplinary practices, methods, and theories of metadesign, art and craft, object orientation, multispecies relation, touch, and storytelling the artistic articulation of the project was presented through a zine and a digital exhibition in spring 2022. Focusing on sustainability and design as a change agent I have engaged myself in the unpicking of both personal and societal levels of material experiences to acknowledge multiple narratives and interconnections between material and place to contribute to change on a paradigm level of how to re-imagine material values and relate to the materials surrounding us.