Rug (T59)

Catalogue Record

Collection

Maker

John Hinchcliffe

Title

Rug

Made in

Arundel

Date

1981

Description

Cotton fabric pile with a linen warp and a wool weft, woven in strips in shades of yellow, red, blue and purple.

Materials and techniques

Two woven strips joined together. Cotton fabric pile with linen warp and wool weft. Colours hand-dyed using natural and synthetic dyes. Woven in double corduroy technique on a Swedish 'ulla cyrus' countermarch loom.

Dimensions

length:  218cm
width:  51cm

Object number

T59

Category

  • Rug, John Hinchcliffe, 1981, Crafts Council Collection: T59. Photo: Heini Schneebeli.

Maker's statement

The three represent an important aspect of my work over the last seven years with cut cloth woven in strips.

John Hinchcliffe, February 1981