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Rachel Carter Sculpture
Rachel was commissioned by Platform Thirty One to create an art installation for this years Alfreton Festival, Derbyshire which took place on the 28th & 29th September.
The installation in St Martins Church was created from over 1000 individually woven paper units using the five stranded spiral corn dollie weave.
Over 1000 individually woven corn dollies create this paper installation
Back in November I was lucky to be selected as artist in residence for Arts Council’s ‘Art In Empty Shops’ scheme and was given the use of an old Burtons menswear shop.
I studied the Corn Dollie weave to create over 200 individually woven geometric forms using fine paper tubes.
Strung together as one form, they create patterns and shadows on the wall giving the feeling of a larger mass, reminding me of a Murmuration.
murmuration
noun literary
1 [ mass noun ] the action of murmuring: the murmuration of a flock of warblers.
2 rare a flock of starlings.
ORIGIN late Middle English: from French, from Latin murmuratio(n-), from murmurare ‘to murmur’. The usage as a collective noun dates from the late 15th cent.
Ive been selected as artist in residence for the Revive arts in empty shops for Ilkeston this Oct/Nov. Heres a sneak peak at what I will be doing, these tiny woven shapes will be created in their hundreds and suspended from the ceiling to create a woven paper installation.
Information will be added shortly on how you can get involved or visit the exhibit.
Step 6 . Finishing off
To finish off the weave tuck the paper tube under a previous straw instead of weaving on the top.
You can tuck each length if required or use a drop of glue to secure the ends.
Once you have mastered working with five strands of paper using a neck, why not try weaving without the neck or increasing the number of straws using 6,7 or 9 straws.
Step 3. Continue weaving around the neck trying to keep each weave of the paper equally spaced.
Step 2. Splay the tubes out, select a single tube and pass it over two strands.
Turn the neck a quarter turn, pick up the tube that you passed over last and lay that over two strands.
Continue turning the neck a quarter turn clockwise and then weave over two strands anti-clockwise.
Step 1. Begin by filling each of the five paper tubes with a pipe cleaner, this gives the tube a memory and better flexibility.
Select five tubes and secure the end with an elastic band
Add a further elastic band 5cm further down the bundle
Whilst on holiday on the Isle of Wight, I came across a second hand book store, having begun research on different styles of weaving I asked if they happened to have anything with corn dollies. I was surprised with the reply “oh yes, follow me to the corn dollie section” I followed the gentleman up three flights of stairs past endless rooms stacked floor to ceiling with books, until we arrived in a room where he pointed to a labelled shelf, “here is the weaving section”. I could have stayed there all day, he had amassed every possible type of book featuring many weaves that I had never come across. I found this delightful book by the Womens Institute
These two students used the torn sections of paper to create effect by careful arrangement
