Jillian Messervey
Studio F
New Guest Artist This Year
Textiles
Jillian Messervey is a Peterborough-based weaver, who loves slow, careful, and deliberate work. Inspired by colours and textures that she sees in nature, she uses natural fibres and traditional patterns to make hard-working and functional pieces that also decorate the home or wearer. Her blankets, scarves and towels are all woven by hand on her antique floor looms.
In addition to making, Jillian is a savvy fixer, moonlighting as an object conservator. She also teaches object conservation at a local college.
I had a craving for yellow — which I think I’ve now quenched. Sometimes I look at these towels and say “oh!”, and sometimes I look at them and say “OH!”. You know what I mean? ••• #handwoven #yellow #cloth #ontheloom #hardcolourtocapture
I thought I should wait to do my wrap in some urban garden, dangling with big pink flowers, but I got kinda impatient. There were beautiful pink tones in this grey moss, and that was enough for me. ••• #handwoven #cloth #offtheloom #forests>gardens #elephantpink
Spring sprung spring. New towlz! ••• #handwoven #cloth #offtheloom #springsprungspring
Handwoven napkins 🦓 ••• #handwoven #cotton #cloth #offtheloom
This new cloth, with its big swath of raspberry down the middle, reminds me so much of peonies, with their big, heavy, showy blooms. Those big summery blossoms are still a ways off, but my forsythia is flowering (and all my garlic babies seem to have survived the snow this week). ••• #handwoven #cloth #offtheloom #peonies
Two little feathers made it through the winter
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