L’INCONNU Amsterdam

House Artist 04 · Woven textile

L’INCONNU Isabelle de Vries

A cloth remembers every decision. You can read it thread by thread.

Twill for the House, 1990. Wool and linen, hand-woven.
LX-IDV-001 · Twill for the House · 1990

Isabelle de Vries weaves on a floor loom in a back room on the Lindengracht. Her cloths start as counted drafts on squared paper, then change on the loom when the light changes.

For the House she wove a set of twills in the colours of the street: brick, linen, canal green, the ochre of old shutters. The edges are left to fray, so that the cloth ends the way it began, as thread.

Over two, under two: the whole cloth is in that rule.

Night check, 1990. Wool, hand-woven.
LX-IDV-002 Night check · 1990
Bark, 1991. Linen and jute.
LX-IDV-003 Bark · 1991
Red window, 1991. Wool and cotton.
LX-IDV-004 Red window · 1991
Herringbone, canal green, 1992. Wool, hand-woven.
LX-IDV-005 Herringbone, canal green · 1992

House archive

  1. LX-IDV-001Twill for the House1990Wool and linen, hand-woven
  2. LX-IDV-002Night check1990Wool, hand-woven
  3. LX-IDV-003Bark1991Linen and jute
  4. LX-IDV-004Red window1991Wool and cotton
  5. LX-IDV-005Herringbone, canal green1992Wool, hand-woven