Installation
2021

Treating Vleeshal's brickwork as a giant darning cloth, the work small wares & hard wares danced across the walls during Katie Schwab's 2021 solo exhibition. She wove this small ware with passementerie-expert Veva van der Wolf at the TextielLab in Tilburg. Created on a band-weaving loom from 1880, the ribbons incorporate a myriad of stripes and holes in silk, cotton and linen. Embracing the spirit of sampling, the ribbon eschews uniformity and includes a myriad of stripes, holes and repairs in silk, cotton and linen. The vivid oranges and pinks of the ribbon’s warp make reference to madder, a plant-dye that was historically grown across the region of Zeeland—a technique that Katie Schwab explored during her spring 2021 residency at Cove Park, Scotland.