Fibre Market - Donegal Tweed 2017
Following the earlier
project Fibre Market, Meindertsma was left with a substantial collection of colour-sorted
woollen fibres harvested from discarded woollen sweaters. She developed the
idea to produce a fabric that would celebrate the colours of these fibres. Irish
Donegal tweed is typically adorned with tiny coloured flecks, historically this
was a process developed to make the most of the scarcity of colourful yarns –
peppering them throughout a textile to decorative effect. Meindertsma’s idea
was to create a Donegal style tweed fabric where these flecks are made from the
recycled woollen fibre
The yarn is made by
Donegal Yarn, the last industrial Donegal yarn spinner in the region. The
fabric is woven by Molloy and Sons; a 4th
generation traditional manufacturer of Donegal tweed. They produced the new
fabric with Meindertsma for the exhibition Change The System in the Boijmans
van Beuningen museum where a version was shown as upholstery on a Flax Chair.
SPECIAL CREDITS: Donegal yarns, Molloy and Sons
