This piece is titled 91/100, and was handwoven on a frame loom in Brooklyn, NY as part of the “100 Day Weaving Challenge.” The artist created one “Woven Drawing” a day for 100 days in a row.

Jessie Mordine Young (pictured) is a Brooklyn-based artist who researches, writes about, curates, makes and teaches textile art. She earned her BFA in Textiles and Textile History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and her MA in Material Culture, Design History and Object Study from the Bard Graduate Center in NYC. She is part-time faculty in the MFA Textiles Program at Parsons School of Design at the New School.

Jessie grew up between the Bay Area, California and New Delhi, India, where she was introduced to various art and craft communities, many of which advocated for autonomy over their practice. She is enamored by the alchemy of the dye vat. She paints her yarn and woven fabrics through a natural dye process, where she creates her own visual language with color by thoughtfully sourcing plant matter. Jessie believes that textiles can be carriers of empathy, memory, and lived experience and that they are evidence of humanity. This sentiment is at the root of her art practice.

A rectangular weaving from natural materials, with a white weft and tan warp, and a branch woven through the middle. Mounted on a burlap-covered board. Cotton slub, hemp, branch. 12” x 14".