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New book coming in the fall of 2024!
Available through most booksellers.
Available now through Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other booksellers.
My current tapestry is based on a oil pastel drawing I made while at the Lillian Smith Center a couple of years ago. Shadows along the path are dominant in the design.
Ongoing tapestry diary progress. This shows Jan., Feb., and March images and the day-by-day parts. Black and white are shown for days away from home.
Tommye McClure Scanlin ~ artist and teacher ~ tapestry and other things ~ Dahlonega, GA, USA
Marking Time with Fabric and Thread
New book coming in the fall of 2024!
Tapestry Design Basics and Beyond: Planning and Weaving with Confidence
Available through most booksellers.
The Nature of Things: Essays of a Tapestry Weaver
Available now through Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other booksellers.
About my work
I am an artist who observes and responds to my surroundings for inspiration. My primary artistic medium is handwoven tapestry, an ancient method of working with fibers to create images. As I seek images and ideas to interpret into tapestry I experience my surroundings a closely as I can. Photographs, sketches, paintings, and writings all are part of the research I put into my work.
I have been living in the southern Appalachians most of my life and so my surroundings are filled with natural forms of woods, streams, and fields. My eyes are frequently drawn to the myriad details of the landscape and many of my tapestries are based on aspects of those details, simplified and enlarged in a weaving.
Please visit my American Tapestry Alliance page and my website to see more of my work--scanlintapestry.com
Video presentations, podcast interviews, and articles
- "Dope with Lime" a podcast from Lillian E. Smith Center, episode 45. Sept. 2023
- ATA and San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles presentation in conjuction with ATB13, Nov. 4, 2021
- Book launch video for The Nature of Things: Essays of a Tapestry Weaver, Sept. 15, 2020
- Damascus Fiber Arts School zoom presentation about Tapestry Design Basics and Beyond, Sept. 16, 2021
- Damascus Fiber Arts School zoom presentation about The Nature of Things: Essays of a Tapestry Weaver, Oct. 27, 2020
- Gist Yarns podcast: Weave--interview 141
- Handwoven articles online
- Long Thread Media podcast interview
- Peachy Keen Podcast interview
- Professional Weaver Podcast interview
- Tea & Textiles, Handweavers Guild of America, episode 67
- TEx@ATA, online exhibit of my work
- Video of conversation between Dianne Mize and Tommye Scanlin in conjuction with their exhibit "Streams and Strands", Feb. 3, 2020
Current tapestry on the loom
My current tapestry is based on a oil pastel drawing I made while at the Lillian Smith Center a couple of years ago. Shadows along the path are dominant in the design.
Upcoming Exhibits, Workshops, and Book Signings
Exhibits:
"Because of Memory," a solo exhibit at Mason-Scharfestein Museum of Art, Demorest, Georgia. August 31-September 28, 2023.
American Tapestry Biennial 14, juried exhibit, Appalachian Center for Crafts, May 12-July 20, 2023.
Online exhibit at TEx@ATA, curated by Pat Williams.
Workshops:
Arrowmont School of Crafts, October 1-7, 2023
John C. Campbell Folk School, Octiber 15-21, 2023
Time Marches On
Ongoing tapestry diary progress. This shows Jan., Feb., and March images and the day-by-day parts. Black and white are shown for days away from home.
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...(I) have come to the conculsion that tapestry can indeed be an art form in its own right with its own specific mode of expression if the craft of weaving is allowed to influence the art of tapestry. In order to be meaningful, tapestry must find its own identity. It must not be a woven painting, but rather a composition that could only have been woven, not painted.
Silvia Heyden, from The Making of Modern Tapestry
What happens within the large areas (metapatterns?) is so appealing. I love watching this piece grow.
ReplyDeleteI like the thought of these areas containing metapatterns--thanks for mentioning that!
ReplyDeleteTommye
Tommye, what method are you using to create such crisp vertical lines? I've got a section of tapestry that I've woven, unwoven, rewoven, and unwoven, because I just can't seem to get a nice crisp line.
ReplyDeleteThanks,
Erin
Erin,
ReplyDeleteIf you mean the single warp line as seen in one of the detail photos, I'm sewing as I wrap, catching the warp next to the warp I'm wrapping every other time I go around the warp with the weft. It's a method of sew as you go for joining vertical slits that I learned from Archie & Susan. Susan has an article about it on their website (link to their website is at the left in my blog).
I've also got some pick and pick stripes in some areas.
Tommye
Many thanks, great resource. I love your new tapestry, can't wait to see it finished.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing the photos of your work. I love learning from the detail one can get with cameras these days. I also was interested in your outlining, as I am trying to get some definition in a tapestry I am working on. Beautiful tapestry, can't wait to see the finished product
ReplyDeleteSue