Well it is here, the time has come for us to move out of the workshop in Neu Kölln, we’ve outgrown the space I think, and I have come to need my loom in my home more of the time, so I can weave myself to sleep at night!
So if you are in Berlin, come Saturday for a last hurrah! From noon to 7pm we will be there with pizzas and weavings, clothes, more!
That’s the 5th, at 63 Pflügerstraße by the Schoenleinstraße U-bahn station.
Workshop Farewell Pizza Party!
December 2, 2009 by Travis Meinolf
cloth mini slideshow
November 26, 2009 by Travis Meinolf
It’s been a while since I have posted, I visited Flensburg Universität up near Denmark this week to give a talk and lead a small weaving experience for the students, and have also been weaving like gangbusters to finish the linings for these St. Martin’s cloaks I am making for Cincinnatti, Ohio’s U-turn Art space! More blogging soon, I just thought I’d take a moment now that the sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie are in the oven and the potatoes are boiling for mash! Happy Indigenous People’s Day, People!
Here’s a link to some photos of an event we held at the workshop for our friend Kottie Paloma’s farewell to Berlin. His art in the background.
Work Shop Web Site
November 15, 2009 by Travis Meinolf
Well I finally spent some of a day in front of the laptop making a small website outlining the project and operations of the Work Shop. I hope that the skeletal nature of the site encourages people to come visit in person. For those outside of Berlin, I hope that the blog and flickr are adequate.
Post-birthday post
November 13, 2009 by Travis Meinolf
November 11th, this Wednesday, was my 31st birthday so I have been taking it easy all week. Back in my 20s I celebrated all November but I am so much more reserved and mature now. Also I had the flu.
But I wove maybe the most impressive scarf ever, in scale and pattern, I was so excited I cut it off without finishing the piece on the loom, I just cut the cloth and stitched what was left around the front beam to start weaving again tomorrow, but I am wearing this puppy out to drinks with another Scorpio and our friends tonight at a bar called Ä. A daylight picture will show the color even better but I thought I’d let you see it a little like Berlin bar light.
In light of the introspective nature of birthdays I listed all the projects I am currently engaged in, and I thought I would share them here now:
• Teaching a local to weave without the use of language, including repair of strange 8-harness table-loom she will use
• Preparing a long-distance weaving kit for the craft class of the Greater Westminster Society for the Blind in Scotland, including an audio guide for the set-up of my laser loom
• Ongoing web-site upkeep limping towards full revamp
• Collaboration with Wolfen, a knitwear shop in Mitte (look for scheduled weaving appearances there in the coming weeks)
• WiiVing video game development– still in mock-up stages but looking like a revolution in immaterial production gaming experience
• Home Loom for IKEA– still in design stages, and awaiting presentation deadline to get serious
• Article and photo-spread on the first berlin loom for Apartmento Magazine– another open deadline
• Ideation and production for U-turn artspace in Connecticut, America show in January
• Cartier Award application for next year’s Frieze Fair in London, cross your fingers people!
If anyone has any ideas to make this flow smoothly let me know! I could do this stuff for my whole thirties! Oh, and Iris got me a pair of Made in Poland Lee Jeans, and my mom got me new glasses! Gifts, they really make you feel good.
Beuys Poncho Update
November 4, 2009 by Travis Meinolf
So this gray poncho I was weaving for my friend Stephanie to use in her Beuys Sculpture, for the ‘1969′ show at PS1 in New York, is up and looks great! Nice job Stephanie Syjuco!
Workshop Fall 2009!
November 3, 2009 by Travis Meinolf
This photo links back to the many pictures I took of the workshop today! Yesterday I was weaving this great cloth, and I was looking around thinking how great everything looked, so today I brought the camera down and took pictures of it all!
just about to start for reals…
October 29, 2009 by Travis Meinolf
This weaving is really really sweet. I think it is going to be merino wool linings to heavy wool cloaks I will be making for a show in america in january 2010. Or a really impressive, 10 meter scarf!
Photo 495
October 23, 2009 by Travis Meinolf
I have been a little sick, and traveling and whatnot (back home in Berlin now, opening the shop for the first time today…) so I haven’t been as productive as I’d like. Today I need to make a couple hundred string heddles (photos later). But this morning I was inspired and piled up three weavings that were laying around and took this picture. I think it is pretty special.
Also I am doing some work on making the Laser Looms as featured in the OSE show available on Ponoko.com. More on this later.
Open Source Mini-interview by Studio Galli!
October 14, 2009 by Travis Meinolf
Just in time to promote Thursday’s weaving evening at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in downtown San Francisco, Andrew Galli sent me this short piece he taped at the opening of the Open Source Embroidery show trying to explain my work. Andrew and I had worked together before, on a series of instructional Shibori videos by local Art-to-wear guru Yoshiko Wada, so it was good to reconnect. I am looking forward to hanging out and discussing the future possibilities of the installation now that I will be leaving America to my self-imposed exile in Berlin, for now. I hope that I find good stewards for the project.
Window display for OSE!
September 28, 2009 by Travis Meinolf
Installation is going great out here in SF, I hope anyone in the Bay Area who is interested in technological collaboration comes out to the opening on Thursday night! 7pm at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art, Yerba Buena lane.
