Yesterday and today: characters in weaving

DEA LEIDI - WIRES AND SHAPES

exhibition of fabrics including clothing and furnishings

The cycle of events Yesterday and today: characters in weaving, that the Museum of Wool Art and the Tramandiamo Laboratory dedicate to the most relevant figures of the textile world of the past and the present, reaches the 4th appointment. On Saturday 8th April at 4:00 pm the exhibition Dea Leidi - Fili e Forme was inaugurated.

Dea Leidi is a passion weaver, trained in the most authoritative textile schools in Tuscany; he considers his fabrics a sort of divertissement, weaving tries to make his works take shape and volume, which often take on a sort of three-dimensionality. Taking advantage of the characteristics of the materials, it inserts knots, cuts and padding, sometimes doubles the warp, messes up the remouldings and the reinforcements to obtain less flat fabrics, pleasing not only to the eye but also to the touch.

The realization is mainly linked to the availability of materials that are almost always recovered, Dea uses in fact processing waste, clothes, recycled yarns and everything that passes under the eyes! The weaver says that often the lack of availability of "beautiful and perfect" yarns has been a stimulus: with new materials, just quantities, colors that are always the same in shades, it is easier to weave, but the result is less personal, so the difficulties are you become opportunities.

Putting well-known gimmicks into a now-forgotten culture of need began to make mats and rugs using clothes that had been discarded, especially for friends who did not want to get rid of clothing they were loyal to. So their old clothes have had a new chance of domestic and emotional use. The result is an unusual production of dresses and pieces of furniture, all united by a note of unmistakable style and the typical charm of works created with passion. The exhibition will remain in the multimedia room of the Museo dell'Arte della Lana until September 3, 2017.

Show Period

8 April - 3 September 2017