‘June Canyon’ (60”x30”x2”) and ‘Valley Lines’ (62"x36”x2.5”)

Project Scope - Collaboration with local textile designer and fiber artist Britt-Marie Alm to create a frame that supports and showcases Britt’s intricate fiber art; the pieces double as standalone wall art to admire or floating headboards to cozy up against with a good book

Location - Love Fest Fibers, San Francisco

The Process -

Britt weaves using the ‘slingshot weaving technique’, a practice Britt learned from Tibetan pastoralitsts. Tibetans weave small but highly intricate slingshots to herd their animals using yak fiber and short sticks as a loom. Moved by this weaving tradition, Britt has enlarged it to huge proportions and incorporated a wooden loom structure - in place of the set of small sticks that would normally be removed after weaving - as part of the final piece.

Britt designs and sources all of her materials from fiber-producing communities in Tibet, Nepal, India and at home on the West Coast.

For the frames I selected beautifully grained walnut and made each from the same tree so that the grain and tone would make a harmonious backdrop for the fibers.