2023. Handwoven rayon and NYS alpaca, felted. 13”x70”.
2023. Handwoven cotton, polyester ribbon, indigo & osage dyed wool, iron & tannin dyed silk organza, paper & metallic yarn, and handmade stoneware beads. 6”x9”.
2023-ongoing. (A) NYS wool, felted; organic cotton, “Double Bastard Weavers Knot”. (B) White stoneware slip, wool and cotton fibers burnout. ~5”x9” each.
2018-ongoing. Steel, walnut, and stoneware. ~7”x2” each.
2022. Handwoven cotton, linen blend, lyocell, blended rayon slub, and metallic yarns. 16”x136”.
2021. Handwoven cotton and polyester on a TC2 loom. 26”x19”
2021. Handwoven cotton, polyester, and metallic yarns on a TC2 loom. 28”x26”.
2021. Handwoven cotton and polyester on TC2 loom. 28”x12”.
2019. Weft back and aspect ratio design study, handwoven cotton on a TC1 loom. 26”x35”.
2019. Handwoven cotton, rayon, lyocell, alpaca, polyester, and metallic yarns. Dark: plied weft plain weave, 20”x66”. Light: double (plain) weave/double wide. 40”x74”.
2018. Textile ink screen-printed on silk. 30”x30”.
2018. Screen-printed devoré, silk and rayon. 30”x30” each.
2017. Handwoven deadstock cotton sewing thread, naturally dyed silk using indigo, osage, and madder, with copper coated steel wire. 8”x5”.
2017. Handwoven cotton, rayon, wool, metallic, and blended yarns. ~7”x9” each.
2016. CompuDobby handwoven air-textured polyester, lyocell, and naturally dyed silk, using indigo, osage, madder, logwood, and black walnut with iron oxide. ~10”x12” each.
2016. Kornit digital print on cotton canvas. 36”x68”.
2015. 800 samples of naturally dyed bleached wool, unbleached wool, alpaca, silk, lyocell, cotton, linen, and a cotton/linen blend yarns; 5 mordant combinations and 20 natural dye extracts, internationally and regionally sourced. 5”x7”.
2015. Cotton and linen jacquard, woven by Oriole Mills, Henderson, NC., and designed utilizing Pointcarré. Various swatch sizes.
2015. Handwoven cotton, metallic, rayon, polyester yarns, with seed beads, and acrylic paint. ~6”x8”each.
2015. Handwoven cotton, rayon, metallic, polyester doublecloth. ~8”x8” each.
I'm a freelance visual artist and textile designer currently based out of NJ, originating from New York's Capital District. I graduated from The Fashion Institute of Technology's Textile and Surface Design BFA program, in accompaniment to SUNY studies in entrepreneurial marketing, accounting, and fine arts.
My love for tactile experiences have been incorporated in numerous forms of craft, with an attraction to organic materials response to manipulation. A long-time focus on weaving led to continued membership in The Handweaver's Guild of America, and through FIT, the opportunity of independent studies in natural dyeing and advanced weaving at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. I have also studied textile techniques with a co-author of “The Woven Pixel”, Bhakti Ziek, Hannah Schultz at the Textile Arts Center, NYC, Michel Garcia at Maiwa, in Vancouver, CA, and Making Center technicians of Parsons School of Design, NYC.
Contact: m.c.sickler@gmail.com
