Tania Espinoza Bonilla

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Weaving with pearl cotton yarn

2017.1.4

This piece was made by the artist in a bound weaving technique. She used an industrial manual loom from the 60’s to weave pearl cotton yarn using this technique, which hides the warp (the vertical base of yarn strands first put on the loom) with the beautiful patterns of the weft (the horizontal yarn that is woven through the warp). I love the colors she has chosen and I love that she has kept the ends of the weft yarn on either side, which gives the piece a fun 3D quality and reveals the amount of yarn and work it takes to make a weaving like this. Every time I look at this piece, I see new little details: one of the rows near the top looks like a row of little green glass bottles, and the middle reminds me of tall windows of stained glass. What do you see in the patterns?

Tania Espinoza Bonilla is a fiber artist and UWM alumna whose work is mostly based on ideas about female beauty and/or social justice. She is currently a middle school art teacher and she is also working on a small woven jewelry line, which you can check out on her Instagram page @tfortextile

Visual description: Forest green, white, dark brown, yellow, and sandy colored yarn in a rectangular weaving with the extra tails of yarn cascading down the side of the piece.