Our weavers work on both low and high warp looms, a unique aspect of our studio that connects the past with the future. Most tapestries are woven in wool, but our weavers also use cotton, linen and silk to convey the subtleties of an image.
Philip Sanderson
Philip Sanderson is Studio Leader at the Tapestry Studio. He studied at both at Middlesex University and the Royal College of Art Sanderson. Philip has designed tapestries for numerous clients, most famously the New Parliamentary Buildings in Westminster. His tapestry Nr. The Cheesewring was exhibited and sold at 'Collect', the premier fair in Europe for contemporary craft, which was held at the Saatchi Gallery.
"The landscape/tree tapestries explore the representation of an image in the woven surface, originally taken from photographs the image is often photocopied and enlarged or reduced to give the image a specific quality before it goes through a final transformation in the translation to tapestry.
A combination of blending in the weft and the setting of the warp are used to create a parallel between the woven bead and the pixel so the image retains a sense of the original photograph."