For many years, I've had a desire to make a woven wall hanging that uses old bras.

Why?  I don't know, but it has felt like something I am supposed to do.  And just last week a good friend of mine has been diagnosed with breast cancer.  So I think now is the time.

Any advice on how to get something odd like this started?  I have not decided how much I will cut up the bras, or how much related material I will use, but I have a "village" of women, many of them nurses, who endorse the project and are willing to drum up old bra donations.  Do I need a tapestry loom?  Can I make a simple frame loom and just go totally free form?  Or should I try to do this on a floor loom with a very open sett?

Any advice would be very much welcome.

Comments

Fri, 05/13/2016 - 01:10

mrdubyah (not verified)

Make a good sized wooden or plastic pipe frame, wrap it vertically in the yarn of your choice and then start poking bras and related stuff into it.  It will take form as you work.  You might weave a giant bra stuffed with pink ribbon...or make an abstract...or a picture.  Who knows?  You are already inspired.  Now just let your inner genius flow.  

Fri, 05/13/2016 - 03:43

10ashus

Queezie, the only limits you would have, far as the loom goes, is the size of the holes in the reed. No? A handmade frame or tapestry loom would remove even that limit.

Gather materials, plan the size, and go! 

My friends helped me make a paper mache monster to fight Big C. Art and friends are good medecine.

Fri, 05/13/2016 - 11:28

Artistry

Thereasc, good for you! It's a amazing how these visions come to us, then we know that we just have to do the piece! Both suggestions are great. Just start! Tapestry loom, collage, looping them together, floor loom whatever, more ideas will come to you as you work, until the perfect idea arrives!

just go, just go, just go!

best,

Cathie

Fri, 05/13/2016 - 23:58

Artistry

You're not Thereasc, you're Queezle! So sorry, Weavo friend:)

well, everything I said up there goes for you too !

Cathie

Sun, 05/15/2016 - 16:49

Lucy Jennings

I think a frame loom would give you the most freedom, have you considered a big hoop, and do a circular weaving? It would lend to the idea of breast cancer. 

Lucy

Fri, 05/20/2016 - 16:55

Artistry

I like Lucy's idea of starting with a big hoop. I'm envisioning a installation piece though! maybe suspended from the ceiling? Of interlaced bras hanging down at different heights, perhaps dyed with different colors of pink, fuchsia to light pink? Or perhaps deconstructed bras......

this is a really impactful project,  Queezle !

Cathie