What’s on your Loom?
Artist…
Blanka Cepkova About…
Blanka Cepkova completed her education at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague. In her works, she is devoted to textile jewelry, textile objects and woven fabrics. Since 2004, she has been teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (Slovakia), where she is also the Head of the Studio of Fiber Arts. At the end of 2013, the school bought the digital jacquard loom TC2, which opened for her and her students a new dimension for weaving.
Works...
In her latest works, she explores some of the historical fabrics from the aspect of visual processing. The basic inspiration for this series of three jacquard tapestries comes from the historical baroque liturgical dress (the so-called “pluvial”). It was a silk jacquard weaving - brocade in 5 weft colours with metal threads. Each of the three pieces react in different ways to their original. She analyzed the historical silk weaving through photography and modified, enlarged, reduced and deformed ornamental motives - as appropriate to her rendition of the originals.
Link...
www.vsvu.sk/kontakt/zamestnanci/blanka-cepkova
“Baroque Time”
What’s on your Loom?
She was looking for some new compositional contexts and realized the digital adjustments through the Arahne program, where she also reduced the colouring into three colours in weft. Tapestries were woven on black polyester warp (36 threads per 1 cm ). She used cotton threads and metal-plastic thread with satin weave. The art work called “Raster” is raported weaving. As the weft was also black polyester and two warps, the weaving is built by shading satin weaves. The inspiration comes from baroque fabric, where instead of a glossy-metallic thread, a metal plastic thread was used. The tapestry is also highlighted by using a second weft of reflective fibers. It changes its look when the light shines on the surface of the tapestry.
“Landscape over Time”
“Raster”
What’s on your Loom?
“Twilight”