Susie Redman Handwoven

Curved Rod

Handwoven Japanese paper yarn on a linen warp, with home grown stripped willow rods providing structure and shape. This vessel is part of my Flax Gatherer collection, of sculptural textiles which celebrates the growing and processing of both flax and willow and the essential use of baskets by growers and gatherers over time and place.

After The Harvest

Paper yarn on a linen warp, with stripped willow bark providing shape and decoration. This sculptural vessel is part of my Flax Gatherer collection, that in an abstract way, draws attention to the past and growing and gathering with intent to make as an essential aspect of what it is to be human.

Vessel 2

Handwoven Japanese paper yarn on a linen warp, with homegrown willow rods providing structure and decoration. This vessel is part of my collection of handwoven sculptural vessels that celebrate growing and making and the position of the maker as central to this ecological cycle.

Flax Gatherer 1

Handwoven Japanese paper on a linen warp, with stripped willow rods providing structure. Flax stems and seedheads allude to the processing of my homegrown flax. This piece is part of a series of sculptural textiles that attend to the historical context of growing and processing of both flax and willow, and the essential use of baskets by growers and gatherers over time and place.

Colours of Flax

Handwoven Linen Hammam style towels. The flax plant was named by Linnaeus as ‘The most useful plant , Linum Usitatissimum. I enjoy making shower towels and hand towels in linen to celebrates the utility of this amazing plant and the beauty of its blue flowers and golden seedheads. I developed the weave structure from a traditional and very old Swedish weave.

‘Breton’ Handtowel

This is one of a collection of handwoven linen hand towels, hand finished and stitched by the artist in the studio. The ‘Breton’ design is a block weave and was inspired by the weavers of the Bauhaus. It’s a great pleasure to weave something as useful as a handtowel, using that ‘most useful’, plant, Linum Usitatissimum, knowing that it can be used and washed and used and washed and steam pressed for many years.

‘Breton’ Blanket

This blanket is one of my ‘Breton’ collection pieces . It is woven using a block weave structure that was inspired by the weavers of the Bauhaus. It is handwoven in a Scottish Lambswool that was spun at a Scottish heritage mill. It is hand finished with a blanket stitch edge. The colours were inspired by the lichen growing on the rocks near to my harbour side studio and also the plants in the studio wildflower garden, Ladies Bedstraw and Yellow Rattle.