Where Are All The Sheep
In a local collaboration with Lystbækgaaard in Ulfborg the project investigates the historic context and properties (aesthetic and functional) of the wool. The process leads from participating in the shearing/sorting process to local wool spinners who handspun yarn, which were then made into ropes with rope maker Steen Franch to revitalize an old tradition of making tactile soft rope from sheep wool.
Year : 2020 Graduation project
Nominated : Talking Textile Dorothy Waxman International Textile Design Prize 2021
Exhibited : Koldinghus 2020
Nominated : Talking Textile Dorothy Waxman International Textile Design Prize 2021
Exhibited : Koldinghus 2020
Outcome :
Collection of Rope with different properties from spælsau wool
Collection of Rope with different properties from spælsau wool
Woven carpet made of ropes from the wool of six Spælsau sheep. Three brown and three white ones (one plantdyed with birch leaves which gives a yellow stripe in the rope).
L: 85 x H: 3 x W: 52 cm
Shearing process at Lystbækgaard :
Plant dyeing wool with Birch Leaves :
Ropemaking with Steen Franch :
