Fabric lovers! For the joint venture of Soil X Mountain Folkcraft, Something Old Something New, Mountain Folkcraft is holding a fabric exhibition. Hand woven fabric such as ikat,lime bean paste resist dye, wax resist dye, brocade, tie dye, discharge dye, patchwork. Also featuring are the creations by artists from Soil; Cotton Car, Denise Chan, Furze and Seung.
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W300xL300mm, Korea
For the Something Old Something New Exhibition with Soil, we have the Korean artist Seung Yun Yoo and her fabric creation, hand printed dyed with natural ingredient.
Seung lives in Seoul, Korea. She makes home textile goods inspired by her plain but beautiful surroundings. After studying fashion design at Esmod Seoul and Illinois of Art in Chicago, She worked for several clothing companies in New York and Seoul. Recently she quited her day job and started to make her own fabric creations. All products of Seung were printed and made individually by hand with care. She hopes to make something simple, different and sincere which can fit into every home.
To learn more about Seung visit her blog @ http://knifeinthewaterblog.blogspot.com
Hong Kong
Denise is from Paiwan 台湾排灣族, an aboriginal tribe of Taiwan. Her interest on handwoven fabrics starts from her collection on minority costume. She is not only a collector by has also become a craft designer.
These bags are made from her private collection of handwoven fabric, the construction of the bag is inspired by the traditional tailoring of the minority tribe.
Something Old Something New, a joint venture with Soil.
Hong Kong
Using the fabric from Mountain Folkcraft, artist Cotton Car has created lovely purse and tote bags for the Something Old Something New exhibition with Soil.
A Pleasure in Metal Frame Purse
“besides stripes and round shapes
I enjoy working with metal frames as well
so tempting to attach it to other purses
like extra compartment, yet decorative at the same time”
Cotton Car primary source of inspiration comes from daily life, or everything around her.
To find out more about Cotton Car visit her blog @ http://cottoncar.blogspot.hk/
varies sizes, Hong Kong
For the Something Old Something New Exhibition with Soil, our curator and participating artist, Furze Chan, has created for us these Happy Dolls. They are handmade by Furze with tie dye indigo fabric.
Furze Chan is a design freelancer in Hong Kong. Her works include publication design, web design and illustration. She owns 2 brands – “With Her Animal Poetry” and “Ferse Verse”. She was graduated in visual communications(Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the School of design)(BA) in 2006.
To learn more about Furze, visit her blog @ http://furzechan.com
W900xH2200mm, China
This silk embroidery painting is a traditional gift for birthday of a lady of high social status. In figure in the embroidery is the saint Ma Gu and the phoenix (queen of all birds) going to give her best wishes the Queen Mother of the West (the supreme head of all female saints) for her birthday. On the tray that she is going to present to the Queen Mother has a few of the magic peaches which are believed to take 3000 years to flower, 3000 to bare fruits and another 3000 years to ripe, a bite of it will make one immortal. The peach is a symbol of longevity, it was also featured in God of Longevity.
Unfortunately the closest we can get to the magic peach is through pottery, carving and paintings, but if you would like to try the worldly version, it is known as the Saturn Peach (Prunus persica f. compressa), they will not make you immortal but they are super delicious.
An interview with the HK Central Art Geeks, a Singaporean group who set out to discover the artistic side of Hong Kong.
Visit their web site @
http://bigshot52.sg/Hkartgeeks/index.html
Some of our fabric: Stencil Dye Fabric, Hand Woven Textile, Hand Woven Textile, Miao Hand Woven Fabric, Indigo Dye Fabric, Ikat, Silk Tie Dye, Indigo Dye Fabric, Tie Dye, Discharge Dye Fabric.
Textile width 380mm, China
Hand woven fabric is a tradition art for the minority tribes in China. Traditionally, the hand woven textile would be used for the small duvet for the child, the dowry of the bride, the keep sake head wrap, the decoration of ceremony – a significant piece of textile. Not only are they functional they are also a show of love and care, however, at the highly industrialized China its concept of tradition and its function are both at risk of being replaced by something more trendy and more convenient to obtain, losing to either one would seize the continuation of this craft.
Textile width 380mm, China
This checker fabric is from the Bu Yi tribe in China, they are famous for their hand woven checker pattern fabric and their wax dyed fabric, they are one of the remain tribes whom the tradition of cloth weaving remains a strong tradition. The checker pattern cloth is used for head wrap, bed sheet and clothing; though they are all checkers, the use are very specific. Each pattern has its own story, this particular cloth is for making clothes. Instead of going online or glue to the telly, girls of the Bu Yi tribe would weaving as their past time during the evening; the motivation comes from the preparation of the dowry which has to include the minimum of bed sheets, duvet cover, 10 costumes.
Textile width 380mm, China
We have a collection of the fabric from the Miao tribe, as they are hand woven, unlike the machine woven fabric, their textile width is quite narrow. They are cotton fabric that would be normally used for making garments for the tribe.
Mountain Folkcraft 