PALLADIO

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SIGNE EMDAL

spring 2021
Italien mohair & merino wool, Swedish cotton warp
50,5 x 115,5 x 4 cm
loop tech
unique piece
on show at the Homo Faber Show april 2022
Solo show FANTASIA at Galerie Maria Wettergren 2023

/Text by Galerie Maria Wettergren

The tapestry-like wall sculpture ‘Palladio’ was created for the 2022 Homo Faber exhibition “Crafting a More Human Future” in Venice, Italy. The thin yarns are finely woven to create subtle color gradients, inspired by the lace-like octagonal pattern of the terrace of the Basilica of San Giorgio, on San Giorgio Maggiore Island.

‘Palladio’ is handcrafted using mohair threads on a cotton warp base on a tapestry loom. Signe Emdal used her signature LOOP fusion technique, based on a manual translation of the electric tufting machine. In this process, ongoing rows of loops with six thin mohair threads are woven together with wool in a classic rug construction.