With some persistence, I was able to get a job in industry as a CAD designer at a high-end jacquard upholstery mill, in Lancaster County, PA. It was perhaps the most fun job I have ever had and simply could not believe that someone would pay me to design fabrics. I learned a lot about jacquard design from Klaus Flock, an extremely talented jacquard designer and design director at Weave Corporation. In 1996, I was part of a group show New Voices In Weaving, curated by Cynthia Schira at the Contemporary Crafts Museum in Portland, OR. I wove several pieces that incorporated double weave pickup with open ended pockets and a new discontinuous pleat (flap) structure that I had developed on my own. The work from this show never went anywhere but the flap construction would end up as my woven origami, down the road.
New Voices In Weaving
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