| Handwoven Scarves, Shawls and Accessories |
| I believe that what you wear can lift you spirits and improve your outlook, so I am proud to be able to create art that is both decorative and functional. After a dozen years of experimenting with color, fibers, and structure, I’ve narrowed my focus to weaving contemporary scarves and shawls, combining an age-old craft with current tools. Using all natural yarns, silks, cotton, rayon, and wools, I dye using color fast environmentally friendly pigments before warping the looms. I have one eight-harness and two sixteen- harness looms that allow me to weave intricate structures and patterns that compliment my color schemes. These looms are all hand and foot powered, just as looms of the past. I use a computer to draft my unique complex designs to create contemporary scarves and shawls for today’s consumer. These are not your Granny’s shawls! |
| Recipe for Silk Scarves - makes 6 - 1. Order silk yarn from France. 2. Wind up the warp - 244 yarns at 14 yards each. 3. Dye yarn: Lay all 244 yarns on a table and apply various colors of dye with a brush to get a nice variegated look, or bundle a group of yarns and immerse in one color of dye to achieve a solid color stripe - Repeat with 4 more bundles and 4 more colors. Let set for 24 hours. 4. Rinse out excess dye and air-dry warp yarns - About 24 hours. 5. Warp Loom, weave scarves - allow 5 days for this step. 6. Remove the scarves from the loom, wash and line dry. Allow 12-24 hours. 7. Press and tag scarves. 8. Find happy homes for each scarf. |
A Silk Scarf in progress: Jill at the AVL Compu-Dobby
The Egret Blvd. Studio. 2 AVL Dobby Looms
| JILL HUNTER ARTISTIC FOCUS Specializing in hand-woven, hand-dyed silk scarves, shawls, and fashion accessories EDUCATION University of Minnesota, B.S. Design WORKSHOPS/TRAINING 1993 Swedish Weaving Malin Sealander 1994 Weaving in Silks, Virginia West 1997 Boundweave, Vicki Tandy 1998 Theo Mormon, Heather Winslow 1999 Twills, Bonnie Inouye 2008 ComplexWeavers, Bonnie Inouye PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Weaver’s Guild Minnesota 2006-- Handweavers Guild of America AWARDS RECEIVED Hon. Mention, 2005 Laumeier Contemporary Art Fair, St. Louis, MO Award of Excellence, 2004, 2005 Art & Air, Webster Groves, MO: Best of Category, 2002, Art on the Square Belleville IL, Award of Excellence, 2002, Park Point Art Fair, Duluth, MN Award of Excellence, 2001 Midwest Salute to the Masters, Fairview Heights, IL Award of Excellence in 3D Design, 2001 Laumeier Contemporary Art Fair, St. Louis, MO |
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